Well, we are ending the year with very bad news. We were kicked out. I do not even know where to begin. I do not even want to write this post...

So I will just tell you what I know- We were kicked out on the 17th of December and are just now finding out. Nathan's birth certificate has to be redone and they are going to work on it which will probably take a couple of weeks so we will probably not be back in PGN until sometime around Jan 14th.

It is very hard to redirect our hearts and thoughts to now process the idea of not really knowing when he is coming home. My answer for now on is " I have no idea"

Please continue to pray for us and for our sweet baby boy who is growing by the minute while time just passes us by. We do not understand and can not for the life of us see a reason for all this waiting, but he is so worth the wait!

Lord, please help us to understand and please bring our baby boy home.

Well, it was nice to wake up this morning to new pictures of my beautiful baby boy! Thank you Deidre for taking the pictures for me and for loving on our sweet son for us! I pray you get your beautiful girl home real soon!!!

Here are most of Nathan's gifts he received this Christmas! He has more at his Gammie's house. We did not open them so when he gets home he can do it himself!! He is one loved little boy!!
Thank you all for Nathan's presents! I know he will love them!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Ours started Saturday and did not end until last night. Needless to say, we are tired! It was good to see family, but oh how good it would have been if Nathan was here!!!

Today marks 8 weeks in PGN- no word yet. Please pray for Casey and I as we wait to here an update. Not sure when that will be. I pray it is this week. I promise we will let you know as soon as we here something. Thank you for your continued prayers and support.

Here are a few pics from Christmas. See our family blog for more (allumsfamily.blogspot.com)

Happy New Year!

Well, today is Christmas Eve and we are preparing to make the rest of the family rounds today and tomorrow. Oh how I wish Nathan was here with us! We miss him so very much!!! It has been much harder than what we imagined not having him here this Christmas.

Wednesday is 8 weeks in PGN. As far as we know we have not gotten a kick out nor have we gotten out that we know of. PGN is at half staff so things are moving slower until after the first of the year. I pray we here we are out of PGN after Christmas!! What a HUGE hurdle that would be!!

Happy 6 Months Baby Boy! We Love You and miss you soooo much!!!! I wish I was holding you right now kissing those sweet cheeks! I pray the 3 of us will be together again real soon!!! I pray that you have a wonderful Christmas and you get much love from those who are taking care of you and those who are visiting. I pray you can feel the love of our Savior and our love wrapped around you!!!


Merry Christmas to you all and may God be glorified this Christmas!


And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 1 John 4:14
You shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.
Luke 1:21

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved though him. John 3:17

We got a health update on Nathan yesterday. He is healthy and doing well which is good considering some of the babies are sick with the flu. Please pray that they can get rid of that ugly bug and all the babies can get well.

The report said he weight 15lbs and 7oz and said he had lost about 6oz since last month's update. I am not real sure why he has lost weight. Even though he is a very healthy baby and has weight to loose it is never good to loose 1/2 pound in one month?? I am hoping it was from the two teeth he cut (which he had diarrhea while we were down there as he was cutting the first tooth). Please pray that nothing is really wrong and he will be back up to his "fighting weight" next month! As a nurse and a mommy, it is so hard to sit back so far away from your baby and not know exactly what is wrong and not be able to take them to the doctor yourself and love on them when they are sick.

Tomorrow will be six weeks in PGN. Please continue to pray we will be approved and out for good very soon. Also pray for all the other cases in process. The Guatemala Gov. is suppose to vote today on the amendment regarding the adoption process changes and grandfather clause. I do not understand it all ( I do not think anyone does) but if you want to read more about it or keep up with it go to www.guatadopt.com for the latest updates.

(Also, check out the new post on our family blog if you haven't already- link listed on the side)

Well, it has taken me a while to post more pictures from our trip. But here is day 2 and 3 from our trip.

On day 2 we just adjusted to being there and let Nathan get use to us. We were extremely tired from traveling. We did go and visit at the orphanage and take the donations we had collected (thank you to all who gave) and also took the care packages for the ones we had.

On day 3 we did a couple of photo sessions with Nathan and just enjoyed being with him. We were still extremely tired from the trip and I am not sure if I mentioned that Nathan did not sleep much the first night so that meant we did not sleep. His teething and cold was getting him off his schedule a little but we were so thankful we were able to be there to comfort him while he was not feeling well.

We miss the little guy so much!!! Not a moment goes by that I do not think about him. I often think about him especially when it is feeding time for him. I guess that is good. Maybe that means I want forget to feed him when he comes home;)

Please continue to pray we will fly through the rest of PGN with out another KO so we can bring our sweet baby boy home! Thanks for your continued love and support!!!

Enjoy the pictures!

Social worker, Anna, was also visiting Eagle's Nest the week of Thanksgiving so Nathan got lots of loving! She got some good pictures of him and even managed to get a picture where you can see his too teeth!!! He looks so good!!! I can't wait to get that sweet boy home!!!

See my TWO teeth!!!

Bring on the food!

So Clean!!

I miss my mommy and daddy!

Well, Nathan had a good Thanksgiving week! He was loved on by my friend, Diedre, while she was visiting her daughter, Kendall, for the first time.

She got these pics of him. I was so excited to see him in up out of his crib playing. He looks so good and happy (but I think he still misses us;)!) Thank you so much Diedre for taking time out of your trip to love on my sweet boy and take priceless pictures of him!


A funny story: I ran across these pics on the EN blog after we got home from our trip to visit Nathan. While we were with Nathan, everytime we tried to get him to eat his cereal by mouth- he refused after about 3 bites. I thought the nannies we telling me a fib when they said he ate by mouth, but we kept trying and he kept refusing. So when we got home and I so these pics on the web I just laughed and knew I obviously was not doing something wright! The chunky little boy does eat by mouth, just not for us! We will have to learn the special trick for when he comes home.

I love to eat! See, no mess!

Case Update: As far as we know we are still in PGN which is four weeks now. Please continue to pray we stay in until we are out for good. Hopefully we will here from the lawyer soon that we are still in.

After visiting our precious son, it makes the wait so much harder. I wish so bad these weeks would just fly by. But know God has a plan for our family and he is going to bring Nathan home in his perfect timing.

I am going to post more pictures of the trip soon!

Stephanie and Casey

Today our baby boy is 5 months old. I can not believe it! I wish he was here so we could kiss all over him!!! I miss him so much it hurts!

We love you so much Nathan and pray that God brings you home to us very soon! Happy 5 Months Baby Boy!

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours. If you are blessed to be able to spend Thanksgiving with your family, ENJOY! Make the most of it!!!
God Bless,
The Allums