LN: Jones
DH:
Nicholas Owenhair: wavy, black
eyes: brown
DW:
Anastasia Mariehair: straight, red
eyes: blue
Location: Ontario, Canada
Nick’s job: Politician
Ana’s job: Teacher
1. Adopt a stray
We adopt a stray yellow lab and name her
Daisy.
2. Family Vacation
We take a vacation to Hawaii.
3. Travel
Nick needs to make a trip to
France so we spend a few extra days in
Paris.
4. Celebration
We are celebrating the recent birth and baptism of our niece
Addison Rose. We are thrilled to be her godparents!
5. Life Long Dream
Nick has a book on the best seller list!
6. Family Event: Move
We move to Germany.
7. Pet
We get a cat. She is black with white markings.
8. I’m still teaching but I’m going to night school.
9. Family Vacation
We take a trip to New Zealand.
10. Adoption
After 10 years with no luck conceiving
Nick and I have decided to adopt. We travel to Haiti and adopt a 7 year old boy. We are calling him
Henry James. His birthday is
August 15th. The same as his uncle’s.
11. Adoption
We like adoption so much that we decided to adopt again and give
Henry a sibling. This time we adopted from
France. We adopted a two year old girl named
Emma Camille. Her birthday is January 24th.
12. Even though we love our children
Henry and
Emma we still kept trying and finally this year we got pregnant with our first biological child. We were thrilled to learn we were expecting a little girl. When our daughter was born at 4:32 am November 7 she had straight black hair and lots of it! Her eyes are looking to be green.
Henry and
Emma love their new baby sister. Her name is
Genevieve Marie “
Eve”.
13. 3 years after our dog
Daisy died we found another dog wandering alone. We had to rescue him too. He is a Husky that
Henry has named Buzz after Buzz Lightning.
14. We took a trip back to
France to visit the orphanage that we adopted
Emma from. They were so pleased to see that she has a great family, a brother and sister, and a cat and dog.
15. I went back to school before for a few years and I quit school and work to be a stay-at-home mom when we adopted
Henry but now that the kids are 12, 6, and 3 and are all going to be in school (
Eve in the mornings) I am taking classes again and training up to get another job.
16. We take the kids to Disney in California, U.S.
17. Adoption
We travel to visit an orphanage in Sudan,
Africa as a mission trip. While there we met a set of 2 year old triplets. Not many people were looking to adopt triplets so they would have to either be split up or stay in the orphanage. It broke our hearts so we decided to adopt all three of them. There are two boys and a girl. We gave them first names but kept their African names as middle names. The oldest is
Jacob Mosi (
Mosi means first child), the middle one is
Adam Zuberi, and the girl is
Alexandra Nia.
Jake,
Adam, and
Alex are adjusting quite well. Their birthday is October 7th. While we were in the process of adopting 2 year old triplets we found out we were pregnant. By the time we got back home with the triplets we only had 6 months before another new baby would join us.
18. Birth
We found out we were expecting identical twin boys. We realize this is going to be a handful but we love it so much. Our twins were born at 6:13 pm and 6:28 pm on February 27th. They have blond hair and brown eyes. We named them
Samuel Dean and
Benjamin Michael.
Sam and
Ben have been a great addition to our family.
19. Move
We move to a bigger house where we are not so cramped.
20. We decide that our family may be large but it is not quite complete. We travel to
Ireland where we adopt a 13 year old boy. He has curly strawberry-blond hair and blue eyes. His name is
Joshua Connor. His birthday is
April 2nd. Our family is now complete.
The Jones family:
DH:
Nicholas Owen “
Nick”
DW:
Anastasia Marie “
Ana”
ADS:
Henry James (17)
ADS:
Joshua Connor “
Josh” (13)
ADD:
Emma Camille (11)
DD:
Genevieve Marie “
Eve” (8)
ADS/ADS/ADD:
Jacob Mosi “
Jake” /
Adam Zuberi /
Alexandra Nia “
Alex” (5)
DS/DS:
Samuel Dean “
Sam” /
Benjamin Michael “
Ben” (2)
Ddog: Buzz
This message was edited 4/24/2011, 12:41 PM