Adopting Ukraine

Follow us on our journey to adopt the children God has chosen for us from Ukraine. This will allow our family and friends to track our progress day by day. When we depart for Ukraine this will be our main method of keeping in touch with everyone so please bookmark our web address. We will try to update each day during our journey in Ukraine. We look forward to hearing all your comments and questions. Love, Janine & John

Saturday, July 22, 2006


Playing Pee-A-Book with mommy. Isabella has the most amazing personality. She is so much fun and is such a happy baby. God has truly truly blessed us by choosing us to be her parents.  Posted by Picasa

She decides to take a break from rolling to pose for the camera. Today I noticed that you can feel Bella's first tooth coming through finally. Good news for her so she can eat some super yummy stuff, but bad news for mommy because Bella loves to chew on my fingers when I rock her to sleep.  Posted by Picasa

Since Bella can not crawl yet, she's learned how to get around by rolling around the house. She's very quick and can get to anything she wants in seconds flat. Here she is in action. Posted by Picasa

Okay...all babies are cute when they sleep...but isn't mine just the sweetest thing you've even seen? I have a serious case of baby love!!!  Posted by Picasa

Isabella is getting so big! It amazes me every day how fast she is growing and learning. I love this cute outfit from Aunt Sandy !!  Posted by Picasa

Guess who's sitting up all by herself now? She is also very close to crawling, and then we're really in for it because she is a very curious girl.  Posted by Picasa

Have we met before??? Posted by Picasa

Isabella and Landon, who is also from Guatemala.  Posted by Picasa

Here we are with Sandy in front of the stringray tank at the Ripleys' aquarium in Myrtle Beach. We shared a day there with some good friends from my home town who also adopted from Guatemala.  Posted by Picasa

Isabella helping mommy do laundry. She loves to throw the clothes out of the basket for me. :-) Posted by Picasa

Tuesday, July 04, 2006


Here we are on the water taxi at Broadway at the Beach. It was SO hot we were glad to have a nice ride across the water.  Posted by Picasa

We stopped in Myrtle Beach on the way home and took Bella to the aquarium. She couldn't understand why she couldn't catch those pretty yellow fish.  Posted by Picasa

Uncle Jordan proved to be hours of entertainment for Bella. He's the clown of our family and kids always love him. Bella was no exception.  Posted by Picasa

What a sweet little angel !!  Posted by Picasa

Daddy and Bella had a picnic on the balcony with an ocean view on father's day. As you can see she really enjoyed her beef and carrots! Posted by Picasa

Isabella in her carseat on the way to Topsail Island.  Posted by Picasa

My family has a tradition of taking a beach feet photo of all the girls each year. This year we had a new addition :-) Posted by Picasa

Saturday, July 01, 2006


The Sutton family at Topsail Island 06 Posted by Picasa

I love my cousins! This place is so much fun. Posted by Picasa

Toes are so yummy.... Posted by Picasa

lllllllllllllllllllllllzzzzzzzzz (caption courtesy of Bella)  Posted by Picasa

There was no lack of people to spoil Bella on this trip ! Bella and Grandma Sue on the beach. Posted by Picasa

Beach life is so hard !!  Posted by Picasa

Cute wittle toes in the sand. Posted by Picasa

We had such beautiful weather the whole week. It was so wonderful to have Isabella with us on our family vacation.  Posted by Picasa