10-31-08

Donavan's First Prunes!!

10-29-08

10-23-08

DARRIN comes home today. We pick him up from the airport at 9pm. I sure have missed him. Zack has one more football game on Monday. Then his football season winds down. He also has his tonsils taken out next Wednesday also. I'm not sure which he is looking forward to more : eating ice cream or being out of school for a week! It looks as though he will be with us until Christmas. We are actually looking forward to the children being with us for Christmas this year!! I kinda got tickled watching the weather forcast for here today and Friday. Darrin has really not liked the cold nasty weather up there and is looking forward to being home. Yet he will be coming home to a very cold wintery front with rain coming in for tonight and tommorrow. We are having a cook out on Nov. 8 for Zack's 12th birthday. He should be able to eat cake by then. Darrin found out while in Canada he should be flying out again November 9th for 6 days to Penn. It is for an instructor's training. We also confirmed our appointment with the review committe about Donavan for Nov. 5 @10:30am. Well I'll let you all go. Love you please continue to pray!!

10-21-08

Hope everyone is doing well. It has been a busy week this week. We took Darrin to the airport on Sunday. He left for Canada. He says it is extremely cold up there. We will pick him back up late Thurs. night. I must say I miss him something fierce. Well That also put me taking our 11 year old Zack to his football practice and games while Darrin is gone. Zack had a game last night and I must say it was very cold!!!!! I had Donavan bundled up to the point he did not like it. Donavan has started teething and has been very grumpy these last couple of days. Plus he misses Darrin also. They usually lay together watching football at night. Donavan is growing so fast. He is already 15 pounds!!! Here is an update on Donavan: Mom showed up at the office 2 wks ago to schedule a visitation for the following Monday. They picked Donavan up and well she did not show again. His social worker came to do a home visit the very next day and we had a really good meeting. Basically she had plan to approach the mother at visitation about voluntarily Terminating her rights however she did not show. The flip side is that gives DSS more gun power to prove unstability and so forth. I also was informed we are going to the review hearing on NOVEMBER 5. That is where they will hear a panel of people involved with Donavan and their recomendations which will include: Dss social worker, guardian litems, service providers and us. At the hearing is where we let them know of our intentions to adopt if he becomes legally free. That has a huge impact on their decision. They look favorably on changing him to permanentcy when there is a family especially the foster family who wants to adopt and we are already approved. Then they will recess and come back in with their decision. The social worker recieved the paperwork of the aunt's case to do relative placement from her state closing the case. Please keep 11-5-08 in your prayers!!! That is it for now. Love you all
Dobin

Antique Tractor Show

10-5-08

Wow I didn't realize it had been over a month since I last posted on the blog. Sorry about that. We have had so much going on plus trials and testing in the midst of everything. For the last month and a half we have had something bad happen. Everything from Darrin's car, house a/c, mom falling with coffee, mom falling at church, to Darrin and I both having walking Pnemonia. That is just the add in stuff to football pratice, football games, and school. So let's get everyone caught up!!! Thankfully God has brought us through all of this so far!!! Well Evan the 2year old went to live with his Grandparents a couple of weeks ago. Zack is doing very good in school. He made A's, B's, and 1 C that was a point off of being a B. That was his progress report. He is a wonderful 11 year old. Him and Darrin are 2 peas in a pod. Donavan will be 4 months old in a couple of days. He is doing absolutely wonderful. Here is the update with him: The aunt and her husband have decided not to seek placement of Donavan. The husband found out about the 10 week classes and said no! So that is awesome on our part. The mom has dissapeared and has not done a visitation in over a month. In another month or 2 they will do an accessment as to the "Plan Option" of Donavan's future. At first it is always reunification even if not. They have to first offer unless voluntary termination of parental rights. Donavan's social worker has petitioned to do a review at 6months or sooner if she can get everything together for it. Since the aunt has backed out and mom has not even tried or started her treatment plan then the "Plan Option" will change from "Reunification to Permantcy Placement(Adoption)" . At that point if no other family has stepped up then they will begin to terminate parental rights. That is when the Adoption worker will be assigned and we can step up to keep him. That's alot of info!!! Well I guess this will do for now. I won't wait so long to post again. Please Continue to pray for us. We love you all!!!!!!