Merry Christmas........

Santa came to see Samuel
Pritchard Family

Look what I got!

Sing it!

They ate it Mom!

Samuel turns four.....

On this day four years ago we received the phone call that was to change our life forever! A baby boy was being born and we were to come receive him as our son. We had been chosen by God and his birthmother to raise him as our child. Happy Birthday my Samuel Greyson! I am so thankful God trusted us to be your parents!

National Adoption Day...

Today is National Adoption Day! Let's give thanks to the women who have made the most courageous and unselfish act of love - place their babies for adoption. Let's thank the adoptive parents who fulfill the children's lives with unconditional love and best of all let's be grateful for the miracle of life!Thankful for our blessing! Our adoption was finalized 7/1/08. Some would say Samuel's birthmom made a mistake when she got pregnant with him. I say he was NO mistake! God had a plan for him and that plan was for him to become our son!

Thanksgiving program at Sam's school

Samuel and Mommy

Samuel and Maggie

Samuel and Maggie

Mommy, Samuel, and Nana

This was in the center of the table.

AMAZING!!

National Adoption Month: "In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country" - Kay Warren

God is so good!!

Samuel is singing, "God is so good! God is so good! He answers prayers. He's so good to me!" Smart kid! Thank you Potter's House! I'm just amazed at the Bible verses he can recite and songs he comes home singing.

Superman......

Saw this quote on Adoption Network:

A baby is a miraculous gift from God, no matter how one receives it. Some are given the ability to bear them, others the ability to rear them. - Anonymous

Thomas the Train

Had a fun day with Thomas the Train! He absolutely LOVED it!

Play Time...

Samuel and I are having play time this morning. He drags his lego blocks out and starts building on his lego table. There is a lego man who he tells me is Mr. Benji. He then tells me he's building a Journey Church. This kid just cracks me up sometimes!! I think he can see the future :-)

The things he says....

Samuel was good all week at school so I picked him up a surprise on my way to get him. He came home and told his Daddy about his surprise and then looked at me and said, "wow dude, you hooked me up today Mama!"

Saw this and loved it:

My adoption was treated as a celebration. (Wow, shouldn’t every one of our children be able to say the same?!?) ~ Michael Reagan So very true in our situation thanks to our family and Samuel's birth family.

The things he says...

I get home from work after a horrible day to find Chad has brought me home roses. Sam looks at me and says, "did you get married for those?" He was very serious!! I told him yes 10 years ago.

Cam and Sam....

This one is funny to me!

Lights out...

Our power was out for over an hour. Samuel just didn't understand as kept asking us to turn on the lights. :-) After the 10th time of trying to explain it just became kinda funny.

Last time drinking from sippy cup.....

SNIFF! SNIFF!

Poem

You gave him birth
We'll give him life
You gave him todays
We'll give him tomorrows

...You gave him race
We'll give him identity
You gave him heritage
We'll give him future

You gave him possibilities
We'll give him potentials
You gave him up
We'll have to let go

You dream of his future
We'll work hard for your dreams to come true
You gave him hope
We will too.

Fernandina Beach

Family Pic

Funny Face

Cheese!

Eating lunch with Daddy.

Church Block Party

Braydon and Samuel

Samuel (love his expression)

Spiderman

Trip to Wild Adventures

Sam says, "I'm driving this car!"

All smiles!

Cotton Candy

Cam and Sam

Sam and Mommy

Fishing with Daddy...

Boys will be boys...

Ethan and Samuel

Ethan and Samuel

Ethan and Samuel

Samuel

4yr Party.........

The Cake
Samuel and Maggie


Grammy and Samuel

Wow Dad!

TROUBLE.....