A gift...

Little Griffin Wade Urban is finally here! what a little miracle he is in every way! He is the new adopted son of my cousin Wade Urban and his awesome wife Stacie. Witnessing all the struggle these two have been through trying to fulfill that dream and desire of becoming parents has been such a rollercoaster. 
I got to see this precious little bundle after about an hour of him being born...and i have to tell you the excitement was high! it doesn't matter how many times i've seen or been around a new born there is just something heavenly about newborns! little angels sent down from above....
I have a very deep respect for this birth mom...a hero in my eyes....any person that has been through so much herself...choosing life, yet knowing she can't give this baby the future he deserves....giving her baby to wade and stacie...there are just simply no words! she will forever remain in my prayers...she has given the most priceless of all gifts...LIFE!
Adoption...a miraculous gift that i some day hope and pray i can be apart of. it's so funny how you can instantly bond with a little person, not being blood related, but you just instantly know that is my son...i think that is exactly how wade and stacie feel...little griffin is their son...what a gift from god!!! 

Griffin Wade Urban

8 lbs      19 1/2inches

born april 29, 2009

i simply just love this man! enough said!

my karate kids

today was one of those days where i was running around like a chicken with my head cut off....taking the girls to school, then back home.....then taking chance to school, and then going back home. it was karate day today so had to get everything ready to bring for one of their last days of karate. their official last day is monday. it's so hard this time of year....seems like every membership runs out and needs to be renewed and we were just coming out of the worst winter as far as work is concerned. thank the lord our company is still in business....lol...so far anyways. the kids were in great moods so thats always nice. callie was especially excited over her book that she borrowed from school...." mom, check out the book i borrowed today....it's (whatever title it was...don't remember)" and then i hear a dduuunduuuunduuunnnnn! haha...man sometimes i wonder where that kid came from, she does make life interesting tho...

i love to watch the kids doing sports that they love...or doing anything that they love to do. i just love seeing their personalities developing! i think i'm pretty blessed!

callie loves any book that has something to do with animals

a beautiful day

wow! what a gorgeous day! i'm sitting here in my new office my husband set up for me looking out the window to sunshine and listening to the frogs singing at the top of their little lungs. (Do frogs have lungs?) i just got my girls off to school and got back to my house to start the daily house work...fun fun. i was thinking on my 30 minute drive back home about all my blessings in my life that i often look at as work, or sometimes even a burden. i felt so convicted but i then felt like god was telling me that "today is a new day, a new beginning. this is the day i care about julie, live it for me." it was all i could do but thank him for his amazing love for me. so today i am gonna try live the most out of this day, even if that involves laundry. i can't explain what sunshine does for my soul but i just feel alive inside. i called my husband on the way to school today to tell him a funny story about something ashton said today. i was hurrying them out the door today in a rush as usual, and as we were backing out of the garage i asked the kids, "why do you guys have to go to school so far away anyways?" there was a bit of a pause and i heard ashton pipe up from the back" mom, it isn't our fault you and dad stuck our house in the forest" oh my word, i could of died laughing. toby didn't think it was as funny as i did, guess you just had to be there, but i love seeing my kid's personalities developing...so cool! well i have a mountain of laundry calling my name and an extremely large house needing to be cleaned, better get to it. live your best today and keep the lord right in the middle of it!

up way past my bed time

So this is my first official blog. i'm sitting here on my computer at almost midnight, trying to dive into this whole strange world of blogs, and postings, and page set ups. YIKES....hopefully i will figure his out as i go. gives me something to do while my husband is out of town for work. this is a whole new age for relationships, everything is typed out and left out for the world to see and to leave comments....kind of a scary thought in away but maybe a little more real in other ways. well here's to the first ever stenersen family blog....off to bed for now. gonna try to figure this out as i go! goodnite.