Update on the Cheathams

For some reason, the hubs has been bothered by the fact that I haven't blogged in like 2 weeks.  I think that he thinks that I am some famous blogger and the masses are waiting to hear from me! ha!  No, probably just my mom! lol!

Things have been crazy around the Cheatham casa and we have just really tried to enjoy what's going on here to avoid what's not going on with the adoption.  We received 2 different emails yesterday from our agency.... and they were hard things to hear.... basically in a nut shell... it looks like it is going to be a long while before we have Little Man in our arms. When we started this process in January of 2010, we thought we would have him about a year later.  That's how things were running at the time.  Things have slowed down tremendously and in my opinion, things are only going to get worse.  It's not good.  So of course our emotions are all over the map... sad, scared, frustrated, maybe a little mad.  As I was explaining some of this to Halle Caroline yesterday afternoon when the emails were rolling in.... she said, "see.... if you just would have listened to us and adopted like a year earlier... like we told you guys to, we wouldn't be in this mess." Out of the mouths of babes.  She's so right though.

So Derek and I had a little patio talk last night... just to discuss our feelings about the whole thing.  One thing that we had both come to a conclusion separately was that... we can't be feeling like our life is on hold anymore.  We just gotta live life and we will get Little Man when God's timing is perfect.  So all those mission trips that we want to go on so badly to Ghana and Rwanda.... well, we might just go ahead and do those things and not wait until after the adoption, like we had planned.  It was so hard for us to see past the 2 trips to Ethiopia thing... that we couldn't see the forest from the trees.  But - we aren't putting life on hold anymore.

Good gracious --- I didn't know we were gonna be Sarah and Abraham's age before we got Little Man! uggghh!




So, moving on.... we have kept ourselves really busy with craziness!!! Ellison had her first of her last 3 level 5 gymnastics meets.... She did so good!  In her division, she got 2nd on vault, 3rd on beam, and 4th  all around.  Here is a pic of her on the medal stand.

 Ella and her bff, CJ

And then, this past weekend.... we had the craziness of NCA Nationals... ummmm, apparently, this is a HUGE deal.  Well, now I know.  Lots of extra practices and nerves and anxiety.  Enough said.  It consumed our entire weekend, or month.
On Friday night, there was a showoff of all the teams at the gym....

The whole gym circled up for one last pep talk and prayer

 bff Chandler and Halle Caroline

Day 2 of competition

 that crazy ridiculous makeup

 supportive sisters

 Awards-  I was all poised and ready to go with my camera... because I just knew that our girls had won.  I was mistaken... we lost by half a point.  I should not say they "lost"----- THEY GOT 2ND IN THE NATION!!!! Our girls were amazing though... They did the best ever when they performed their routine 2 days in a row!  So proud.  And they got the sportsmanship award.  Awesome!  Says a lot about their gym, the coaches, and their team.

  

 And let's not leave Brooks out.... in the middle of all these gymnastics meets and cheer competitions.... Brooks also has had tennis tournaments... but unfortunately, I have no pictures. :(

I am so thankful that we have these crazy kids to keep us crazy busy during this long wait of adoption.  God is good and He is in control... He's got this wait, he's got it!

Maybe one of these days, I'll have a good news post about the adoption.  maybe, one day!