Friday night our little hometown was hit with a HUGE storm. The three of us were doing some shopping at Wal.mart and half way through our shopping trip we heard rain falling down HARD on the rooftops, so we knew right away that we were going to be getting very wet!

This is a picture I took out the car window on our way home!

Water was everywhere, all over the roads and the fields were turning into small lakes. We got home and changed into some dry clothes and watched as the storm continued to roll through.....it was crazy! Around 10:00 we lost power, that was interesting to say the least. With a newborn at home and no way to warm up bottles we realized just how lucky we are to have electricity! Thank you Benjamin Franklin (glad I decided to google that; I first typed Thomas Edison!)

Here are some more pictures from the next morning.

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This Saturday and Sunday Wendy's will be donating 50 cents to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption for every Frosty sold!

So go eat some Frostys this weekend and buy some for dad too on his special day!!

the moment we had been waiting for....

the first time we laid eyes on our beautiful new baby.

God is so good!
I can't even begin to describe the emotions running through our entire bodies at that very moment. In all my life I will never forget that beautiful feeling.

(Where does the time go? That was over a month ago!)

Thank you so much Patrice for the super cute blog makeover! I love it!

What do you guys think? How do you like the new changes to the blog as much as I do?

Thanks so much for your thoughts and ideas on a new title, I agreed with many of the suggestions to keep it the same, it didn't feel right to change it completely but I did adjust it to fit our life today and our journey to get here.

we love you Grayden and can't wait for the many more memories we'll make as you grow!
Love,
Mommy and Daddy!

Having G in our family has been such a joy, he is a dream come true and I am loving every minute of motherhood.

I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him.

1 Samuel 1:27

I am sure it is no surprise to you that there have been lots of changes around our house lately!!! Experiencing motherhood has been such a joy and way more fulfilling than I ever imagined. Life will never be the same!

So in keeping with the theme of changes I think its time to change up this blog a little bit. My blog friend Patrice has been busy working on a new layout for me and I have been throwing around the idea of a new title for this blog.

I started this blog back in March of last year as a way for me to journal my thoughts and relay prayer requests after we lost Brenham, never did I imagine where my life would take me...through kidney failure, a transplant and the journey to adopt our new son! So the title "when hello means good-bye" is still fitting but really my story is SO much more than that now and I want this blog to be about all of that. I have a few new titles I am considering but before I make any decisions I wanted to ask all of my supportive blog readers for your suggestions...so get thinking and leave your ideas in the comment section or email me at katielubbers (at) hotmail (dot) com

I can't wait to see what you come up with and stay tuned for the big change!

And thanks for welcoming our newest addition so warmly! I can't wait to share more when the time is right!