Our Adventures & Ready for Summer

Some people think we are crazy. Maybe we are a little. 😝😜

Our life is full of craziness. Our life is always busy. Our life is full of some unknown.

But honestly I couldn’t imagine our life any other way, because our life is full of love.

While everyday we live with the question of what the future holds for Sister and Sissy, we also cherish those days knowing at least for now they are in our arms. They are safe, happy, and blossoming. They’ve been with us for almost a year now. They turned a year old just yesterday. They’ve grown so much. They are walking, eating table food, and transitioning to whole milk.

Our Lil Man is not so little anymore. I can’t believe he’s 13. And he’s almost as tall as us (like .5-1 inch shorter but I’m claiming it as long as I can). He’s about to finish his 7th grade year. He has changed so much in the last year. 

Manda is about to complete her first official year of teaching (4th year in the classroom). She has had a busy year with some challenges thrown her way, but she has been a champ and done an amazing job. I’m so proud of her and her dedication to her students. 

This year, I have focused more on our business, but I’ve subbed some too. I’m really excited about the adventures we are embarking on together. We love our personalized apparel and gift business, ASJ Creations[link]. We love getting to create fun, custom gifts for our customers and shirts they love. In March, we embarked on another adventure! We became travel agents, and started ASJ Travels[link]. We have always enjoyed planning big vacations for our family every summer, and we love sharing our love for all things Disney with everyone we know. Now we get to help others plan the trip of their dreams to Disney destinations and beyond! We love getting to help families plan trips to anywhere they desire!

We are so ready for summer!! This is the first year that we'll all be home together all summer. We'll still be working our businesses, but we neither of us will be working outside of the house this year! We have a few trips planned for this summer including Disney and short family beach trips!

Fostering Love: The Anticipated Yet Unexpected Call

Feb 2019 - Sister, Bubba, & Sissy

May 2018 - picking up Sissy from the hospital

Time to play a little catch up! We've had a busy 9 months!

After Sweet Baby C left us, it was 18 days before we received the call for our next placement. The wait for the call was hard since we had only waited 3 days after our approval call, but we also knew that we had a packed schedule and it all would work out when it was meant to.

Well...on the afternoon of last day of school, we received the call for our next placement. 4 day old twin baby girls. Had we received the call any day before then, we wouldn't have been able to say yes because daycare isn't an option that young. The timing was perfect, and we said yes to the exciting, scary adventure we were about to face.

Baby KA (Sister) and Baby LM (Sissy) have been in our care for right at 9.5 months now. Sister was picked up from the hospital and brought to us on the day we received the call. Sissy had to stay in the hospital just a little longer. We went and picked Sissy up two days later at the hospital. Sister and Sissy met for the first time (outside of the womb) at 6 days old.

These sweet girls have changed our lives and the lives of everyone in our family. We are so blessed to be able to shower them with love.