Joanna's Birthday & Prayers needed!

 Hello everyone...hang on mommy put a LOT of pictures in this post.  It seems I am just too cute for words so she put pictures instead.  :)

 Yep, never wanted a pacifier over the past 12 months, but now I kind of like it mostly to chew on.  :)

 So we had to get out of the house....yeah....more on that at the end of the post.  So we went back to the state park for some picnic time!

 Awww......me and my sister chillin' together aren't we cute?

 It's time for my party!!!

I actually like balloons now. 

 Uh oh!  Here I come!!!!

 Hmm.....what is all this, a dish thing, and silverware what???

 MMMMM.....now this looks GREAT!

 Hey, look everyone is singing to me...awww....thanks!

 This is really the part of the cake I want. 

 It's time to get started on the desert!

 Hmmm.....I think I dropped some in this thing.

 What is this thing....trying to get the hang of it.  (she did really well by the way)

 Awww.....that is what I said when I saw my cards. 

 Ohhhh a pink ball :)

 I like ripping the paper- fun!

 And then when you do this...it does this....

 Now I am getting the real hang of ripping open my presents!

OOOOOO- now this makes some fun music to jam to.  (I will have mommy post a video later).

To read my AMAZING STORY here are some links....  we have a daughter, pics of our Joanna, Joanna's Story part 1, Joanna's Story part 2, Joanna's Story part 3.

To our BEAUTIFUL daughter Joanna Faith Wright.  There were many many many tears on our journey to find you.  There was loss of another daughter.  There were times when it felt very hopeless, BUT GOD had plans beyond our view.  Something so wonderful that we couldn't have planned......YOU!  We Thank God EVERY DAY for you.  For the joy you bring into our home and our hearts!

Your fun words- mama, dada, baba, and of course Uh Oh (he he he).  Wonder how you learned that?   You love to dance, cuddle, cruise, and hang out with your brothers and sisters.  You don't really like going to anyone except family right now, but we don't mind because we love to carry you in the sling as much as possible :)  We are privileged to watch you grow up.  We Thank God that your birth family chose life and we will NEVER forget their sacrifice, their love for you, and for us.  We PRAISE GOD for them and will always be grateful to them for YOU!

****Lastly we have a HUGE prayer request.  In our in between step, that is until we find a home to buy, we rented a vacation rental.  We have put our stuff into storage until we find a home.  So that being said.  The place where we are staying is a NIGHTMARE!!!!  The house itself is ok (well besides all the things that keep breaking down and having to "borrow" internet because ours - you guessed it is still not hooked up), but this is NOT A SAFE AREA TO LIVE IN!!!!!!  I am not saying that lightly.  When you neighbors tell you they wouldn't allow their child to come live with them because there were drug raids etc going on last week, there are cars on jacks, smashed windows, places boarded up, trash in all the yards (even ours even though we have picked up every day around our townhouse), loud music blaring from neighbors and cars at all hours, people yelling and screaming outside our windows, mobile home dragged into the middle of the road near the entry into the area along with a bin on it's side, the "entry house" has been trashed, we have been warned by more than one person to NOT LET OUR CHILDREN OUTSIDE AT ALL!!!!!!  Yeah....not making me feel safe.  To be honest I am surprised our computer is still here- FOR REAL!!!  Other than our computer and ourselves there is not anything of value with us.  Please pray!!!!  We have not been able to find any alternative- this is FL and there are rentals everywhere, but they are all rented!  So right now we are STUCK!  We are just praying our tax refund comes soon (oh yeah we have to send in additional paperwork for that- which they will be sending a letter to us this Friday to let us know what we are to send them- UGH!!) so we can buy a home asap and GET OUT OF HERE!!! Praying a hedge of safety around our family, and for those living here that are stuck!