One Year!

Wow! It has been 5 months since our last post. We have some catching up to do! Today we celebrate one year with our Jack. What a year! We are absolutely grateful for our family of five! God has continued His faithfulness to us-leading us all the way. 

These three children amaze us, encourage us, challenge us, bring us laughter and joy. They are blessings from the Lord!

First Christmas together!

Future violinist

Great visit with Peter's brother and family!

Enough snow in Alabama to make 5 snowmen!

Jammin' with JJ

Big brother reading to me!

Julianna accompanies her friend Beka at a recital.

Chinese New Year Festival with our friendship partner, Coral.

LOVE these boys!

Wrestling and tickling fun

Bike riding at the park

Happy Birthday, Peter! Yummy cake made by Julianna.

Fun to catch lunch with Gramma Duke and Grampa Doc as they passed through Birmingham!

Maybe the boys will hitch a ride on the bus with G and G!

Annual Bowl-a-thon

Happy 17th Birthday to Julianna!

So thankful for these friends, Rob and Steph Strasser...we met at their wedding almost 21 years ago! Great to have them visit!

The Strasser kids and ours.

Handsome boy!

More wrestling...Jack and John-Nathan are winning!

Banana boys

St. Patrick's Day concert at the Ryman (the Gettys)

Exploring Opryland Hotel with my boys.

Love this grandpa!

Climbing trees

The bakery

John-Nathan playing soccer. He has had a blast and learned a lot during his first season.

Dying eggs

Releasing the butterflies(a science project)...J-N a bit teary!

This butterfly (one of 3) was kind enough to stick around for photos.

Most recently enjoyed a visit with the Sanders family. Last year when they came through we were in China!

Looking forward to all the Lord will do in and through our family. Grateful to our friends and family for all their care and prayer as we added Jack, another precious gift, to our family.

Merry Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

from

The Rosborough Family!

Thankful for the greatest gift ever given ~Jesus~ the Savior of the world! As Jack has learned to say, "God with us ~ Emmanuel."  We have been so encouraged to think on that phrase. Indeed, He is with us, and He is for us and we can rejoice! Grateful for all the Lord has done and is doing with our family. 

Thankful for these three "hams!"

Below are some pictures from our Thanksgiving Day photo shoot. Jack wasn't too into it. The last picture in the series shows how happy he is to be done :)!

Blessed by these three!

The Connell Family

Scrinchy face!

Whew! Done with pictures!

Enjoying outdoors with the boys!

J-N loves to climb trees.

Julianna...her own self portrait! She's the photographer most of the time around here. We love our girl, and she continues to bring us such joy and blessings through her many talents. It is a busy junior year for her as she juggles school and her job at Chick-Fil-A.

John-Nathan is becoming a great reader and absolutely loves read-alouds, especially those with a bit of mystery woven in. He enjoys the great outdoors and riding his new 24" bike!

Jack is continuing to adjust to our crazy family beautifully! He is a bundle of three-year-old fun, soaking up everything!

Back in November, we were blessed with a sweet visit from Rebecca, MBHOH's pre-school teacher. Jack certainly knew her, and once he warmed up to her, he did sit and play with her. We continue to be so very grateful for the love and care Jack received at the Big Blue House those first couple of years of his life!

In action!

Finally, a quick hug!

Jack received a special package from Show Hope, the organization that runs the special care center, MBHOH, and that provides for grants for adoptive families.

He had the most fun with the packing material. :)

A precious lamb!

Another Show Hope Kid! Thankful to have two of those around here!

Hundreds of photos and a sweet note to Jack from Steven and Mary Beth Chapman.

This year we have been blessed to serve Show Hope at three concerts, volunteering our time to share our own story with others. They are late nights, and as you can see, one our five has dozed off in this photo!

John-Nathan's robot creation: a Papa and J-N project!

Jack as the robot with the new and improved head gear (Mom did need her colander back)! :)

Jack really likes stickers. Here he is during an Advent craft (Mary's song). He liked decorating his face.

John-Nathan shows off the finished craft.

A Saturday morning jam session!

Mom with all her children -- yes, Julianna is in the picture as the elf cow holding John-Nathan!

The boys thought it was pretty neat!

Thankful for all our friends and family. We've enjoyed already hearing from so many of you. May you have a blessed Christmas Day and a great start to 2013!