Mason Family Update

Hello everyone! I don't have any news to report on the adoption front. Even though the high court issued the favorable ruling regarding guardianship and adoption, the US Embassy still hasn't started issuing travel visas...so it's still at a stand-still. We are trusting in the Lord as we wait on His timing and direction in regards to Uganda. We have decided to continue with the Georgia portion of our home study next month, after we get our taxes paid. This part of the home study will be the same, even if we end up having to change countries (which we don't anticipate at this time). Please continue to pray for the precious orphans in Uganda...and all around the world, for that matter. God CAN and DOES trump beurocracy!

So, it's been a while since I just did a family update...so here it goes! A lot has been going on in our little family. The winter was LONG and COLD! We have been super-busy since the weather warmed up and Spring has sprung. Below is a picture/update.

We got a really good snow in February. It was so beautiful. Both of my girls, Eden and the dog Maggie, had a blast playing.

Eden walked up to me and said, "Look mommy, I spelled horse." After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I seriously began thinking/praying about home schooling starting in the fall. I'm looking forward to the home school conference and expo at the end of this month in Atlanta where I can get more info and look at curriculum. More on this later...

Guess who turned 40 in March? I surprised my hubby with an overnight stay at Chateau Elan, followed by friends over for ice cream cake the next night. When we got home from our night away, Eden and my mom had made him a cake, decorated the house, and placed signs and black balloons in the yard. Eden was SO EXCITED!

Eden and I have really been making new friends lately at our church...especially with the sweet ladies in mine and Gene's new small group (Gene teaches it). We attended a big Easter party and egg hunt a couple of weeks before Easter. Here is Eden with her loot! Somebody please make her stop growing!!!

We had a wonderful couple of days with my sister and nephew playing at our house when they were in town the week of Easter. Camp LOVED Eden's pink barbie car...we won't tell his dad...LOL!

Look daddy...hee, hee, hee...Matt would DIE!

Eden with her Easter basket. I decided against candy since she had already gotten some at the other egg hunt. She is so into soccer right now so she got soccer gear & new PJ's. We always give her a basket the night before Easter (she knows it's from us)...we "play" the Easter bunny...so that when she wakes up on Easter morning, her basket isn't the focus.

Easter morning on our front porch before we left for church. The other day Eden opened one of her plastic eggs and said, "Look daddy, it's empty...just like the tomb!" I then asked her, "Eden, where is Jesus now if He isn't in the tomb?" She answered, "He's in heaven sitting by His daddy praying for us." My prayer is that this knowledge she is learning will go from her head to her heart...I can plant and water these seeds of truth, but only the Lord can cause them to grow!

Hunting eggs in our yard on Easter.

Then it was time for soccer. "This is how you have to stand when you are the goalie, Mommy," Eden said as she demonstrated. Notice the socks she found and put on.

Then out came the sprinkler and bathing suit...with goggles.

Of course Eden had to bring our 11-year-old lab into the fun...this child needs a sibling!

But until then, sweet Julia from across the street is Eden's favorite playmate. Julia is 6 and they love to play together. She came over and joined in the fun!

This cracked me up...they laid their towels out and chatted. Then they ran inside and got books to "read" while they laid in the sun...like big girls.

So that's what we've been up to lately. Eden is growing up so fast and I feel so humbled to be her mom and have the opportunity to be home with her so I don't miss a thing. The Lord has been teaching me a lot lately...and I hope to have time to share some of that in another post soon. Until then, have a great week.