This has been a great year and to spend another year with my kids is going to be great. I hope everyone has a happy and healthy holiday.

We had a great time and since we’re season ticket holders, we’ll be there alot more during the next 11 months

Here’s some pictures that Joanne took of the kids. All four of us.

After trying to conceive a child for a couple of years, we were still not successful (though we had a lot of fun trying). We started to look into adoption and to see what was involved with the procedures. Not long afterwards we decided to move to Florida, so the adoption had to be put on hold since the lawyer we were dealing with didn’t have a license to practice law there.

After we finished moving, Joanne start looking in to what we needed to do to adopt. Shortly afterward we started with the home study. When we told the case worker that we would be adopting other children eventually, she suggested that we might want to think about adopting a sibling group. We thought about it for a couple of days and agreed on adopting a sibling group.

I don’t want to go too much into the steps that Joanne and I had to go through or the long period before the adoption was finalized (from start to finish it took one year). This post is just to introduce the wonderful family that Joanne and I have created.

We have three kids, Cimion (sim-e-on), Shawna and Jacqueline, when we met them they were 10, 7, and 4. They were (still to this day) very cute and good looking. When the adoption was finalized on October 30, 2003, they all celebrated a birthday. It’s now been five years and I don’t know what my life would be without them in my life. They have brought me such great joy and excitement and look forward to watching them grow up.

In future post I will talk about each one individually.