Thursday, February 24, 2011

happy adoption day!

today everyone got to miss school and we all went to the court house to sign adoption papers for Skila.  it was so great! this is now the 5th time we have all went to go sign adoption papers for the members of the hatten family.  its such a great celebration. a bunch of people/social workers come that have kinda walked through the whole process with us.  its fun for them to come and see that a case has finally ended and the child is in a good home.  after sitting in traffic for an hour and a half we finally got to the court house and all went through security and went up to the waiting area for our court room.  usually it doesn't take to long but today everyone was on their own schedule so we ended up waiting another 2 hours to be seen by the judge.  if you know anything about kids you know that you cannot tell them to just sit down and wait patiently and we will go in as soon as they call us. so everyone was getting a little antsy. finally some volunteers came and had some coloring pages for everyone so that was a good time passer (even i was coloring :))  finally they called us in.  we all took a seat at a long table in front of the judge.  the judge says his thing and my parents raise their right hand and say their thing. its really neat.  then my parents sign the papers and bam! just like that she is officially adopted.  she is now officially a HATTEN.





after everything is signed we all get to go where the judge sits and take a picture.  so if you couldn't guess that is what this is a picture of.  we then all went out to brunch to celebrate.  Skila has been a joy to everyone she meets and im so glad to call her my sister.  LOVE YOU SKILA MAY!!

Monday, February 14, 2011

a day of love

all to often people think of valentines day and think "i love valentines day!" or "i hate valentines day!" you know this is also singles awareness day or S.A.D. day. either way you look at it you people all around you are happy and lovey or sad and grumpy.  so take your pick, either be lovey or grumpy or you could just make the best of it.  we have so much around us that i think its only fair to make the best out of what ever situation we may be in.  if we want this day to be about love, we should think about the love that jesus has for us. i mean it is valentines day, the day of love and the ultimate lover would hands down be Jesus Christ.  so why dont we make this day more about him?




can you not listen to this song and really think that jesus DOES really love us? i cant, its so great.  i think we know it but we need to be reminded of it because we lose sight of what really matters.  so i hope that you think about the real meaning of love this valentines day.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

a great weekend

last weekend i went to winter camp with my jr highers at forest home. wow! what a weekend it was! so many students so many laughs so many fun times.  i hung out with my girls just about every moment of the weekend. it was one of my girls birthdays on saturday when we were there so we all had so much fun singing to her and celebrating her 13th birthday. the best part of camp with hanging out with everyone 


this is a picture from our cabin. 
paulina, natalie, karla and paris
love these girls! 

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

living for what?

it has been a while since i have last said anything, partly because i still dont exactly know what i want to say so that the whole world could read it if they wanted to.
yesterday my mom went to a funeral for a little girl who was 4 years old.  so sad.  she died in a freak accident where a TV fell on top of her.  it is so sad when you think of that. 4 years old so so young, she still had her whole life to live.   why jesus wanted her to come home to him im still not sure.  in my eyes she was robbed of her life, she had 2 parents who loved her and took care of her every need and a brother and sister who loved her dearly.  i wanted to go to the funeral but i was unable to go because of work and school.  the word "funeral" has the word "fun" in it. if you ask me there is NOTHING fun about a funeral. i guess you have to think of where she is going to be going, she gets to meet jesus! that is an amazing thing i cant wait till i finally get to meet him! i do hope that its not for some time though because i feel i still have a lot to do with my life before i meet jesus face to face.  i have heard of so many freak accidents lately that i have been think a lot about what am i doing with my life and does it count for anything.  am i living for myself or for something more.  i believe that i am living for something more. i believe there is a wonderful God out there who has this whole world under control even though it does not seem that way if you look and see all that is going on.  i would like to say that i am living every moment of every day for jesus but in reality that is not true.  there are times that i feel ashamed to be called a christian.  i know for a fact (thankfully!) that i am not the only one who thinks that but it does not make it any better.  if i believe whole heartily in jesus why do i not let it show sometimes?  i also believe in the devil and that he has a lot to do with that.  im allowing him to take over what i am feeling.  i do not like that and fully want to change that about myself.  so that is what i have and will be working on in my personal life.  im going to conquer the devil and not let him into my life.