Steve and Jenny Valentine

So in our last blog post about Poland, we mentioned that we were planning on making it home in 2015...so here's a little back story. Steve, who spends his days mobilizing missionaries with Converge Worldwide, was handed a folder with some information about Poland and things going on there. As is normal in his job, he sees a lot of field locations all over the world in great need of the Gospel. It's how he knows who to recruit for specific places. So when he began reading the information in this folder, the Lord began to stir his heart. Steve found himself being drawn to the people in Poland. This was around the time just after Isaac was born and so when he came home and mentioned this opportunity to me, I said, "it sounds neat but we just had a baby, let's pray about it over the next few months." Essentially, even though our hearts have been drawn toward serving overseas one day as missionaries, I wasn't even sleeping through the night and just trying to s...

So she turned two months old yesterday, which means I finally have had time to upload some "official" newborn pictures of our sweetie! My ever so talented sister in law took some of the most adorable pictures of our littlest princess when she was just a couple weeks old...enjoy! the three cuties. sister love Lauren caught her first smile on camera! one of our favorite pics when I first saw this picture I thought, "Man we look tired!" Ha, life with a newborn. The next few just show you what it's like to do newborn pics and attempt to have the other toddler siblings involved!   But we did end up getting a GREAT one of the three kiddos!

Karis and Isaac got to meet their baby sissy the evening she was born.  Since Olivia was born just after 4pm, my friend Cassi (who took care of them that day) brought them up to the hospital.  Funny story, when Cassi got the message that Olivia had arrived, she told Karis and Isaac and they told us that Karis ran around the room yelling something like, "MY BABY SISTER IS HERE!"  So cute! She was so excited to get up to the hospital. I don't have any real great pictures of that first sibling meeting and the one I do have of Karis, me and Olivia is a little blurry, but it works.  Isaac was very unsure of what was going on and stayed in daddy's arms, all while holding on to his baby doll.  He didn't want to get too close and I think was nervous as to why mommy was in a hospital gown and bed.  They didn't stay long since it was close to their bed time.  They went home for a good rest and came back the next morning to spend some time bonding with their new ...

We had the opportunity to visit Poland last Fall.  It was a beautiful time of the year to be there and explore such a neat place.   Hoping to make this place our new home sometime in 2015 . More on that later...until then, enjoy some pictures from our trip! about to board our plane leaving Orlando-Steve's excited face! too bad we didn't get bumped up to first class on our second flight but we enjoyed it out of Orlando :) boarding our plane for Germany can't get away from Disney...even across the ocean! our $30 breakfast in the Munich airport.  This is what you have to pay when traveling with a lady who's 19 weeks pregnant! arriving in Poznan, Poland walked around in Poznan after arriving that afternoon inside a cathedral in Poznan we enjoyed the beautiful architecture eating lunch First meal in Poland~Pierogis still looking a little tired, just a bit jet lagged the morning after arriving yes, another food pictur...