NEW PICTURES

Isn't she so BEAUTIFUL!!!


Peacefully sleeping...How Adorable!!!


I love this one. If she could talk she'd be saying, "I know you didn't wake me up for a picture!!!


Yep, he's got teeth in there! Look at those LONG LEGS! I've said that so much now Colten says it everytime he sees his picture, "Mommy look at those long legs!"

Long Awaited Update

Well after waiting a couple months we FINALLY got some update on our babies! Matt and I had gotten in contact with a mother who just got back from picking up her 4 year old girl and we were anxious to see her pictures and hear about our babies!
We received a nice gift from our agency before Christmas...an email giving us updated measurements on Onah and Marie!!!

Onah is 8 months old now measuring 2 feet and 1 inch and weighing 16 pounds. Marie is 4 months old now measuring 1 foot 8 inches long and weighing 11 pounds. We have a friend who goes to our church and is a resident at Ball. I gave him the babies info. and he's going to see if he could put them on a growth chart :) To me the measurements seem small but in the pictures they look so big! Pictures can be so deceiving!

So we got in contact with the mother who just arrived home and asked if she got to hold our babies. She said, "Marie is a little sweet pea. She was always sleeping when I was there and it was so hot I didn't want to make her miserable." She said she did get to hold Onah and he's adorable, "He's working on a mouthful of teeth right now. He isn't crawling yet, but given the opportunity he would be all over the place, I'm sure! He has his two bottom teeth and is working on 4 more!" She said the babies are getting lots of attention and being well taken care of. She said they are pretty spoiled and hopes they don't get too attached to the "mothers" there (those are the women who run the foster care). She did say that the house there is much nicer than she had expected. I love hearing positive things!

I know there are a couple more kids getting ready to come home soon. Things are moving in Liberia now and I just pray it stays that way! Keep praying for us to bring home the babies in February! That's only a little less than 7 weeks away!!!

In other news we got the babies room painted and cribs put up! It's looks like a nursery up there! Colten is so excited! He loves Marie's bed :) I was pretty excited cause we had a crib, but were in desperate need of another dresser. We sent out an email to our church and found one! It's coming together! It will be here soon and I can't wait! Hope you enjoyed the pics of our little ones! We were online everyday about 10 times a day waiting for them, and they finally came in yesterday!

Keep the Faith!!!

Practicing Faith

Last week in bible study we were reading in Galatians. Paul was sharing about the faith of Abraham. Matt related that really well to our adoption and everyday life. He should have been the one to post this I'm sure, but I'll do my best :)
Basically we get asked all the time, "When are you bringing home the babies?" We always respond with, "Well, we don't know. But, we are praying that God will bring them home with us in February." We both know that would be a miracle, and we both know that God can definitely work miracles. In this situation we feel like this was His plan since day one. We started our adoption stuff after we found out about our trip, thinking that the adoption would take quite a while. We actually thought on our trip we might meet a mother who would be looking for a home for her child, but after going through the process with our homestudy social worker she made it seem like it would go fast and that we would be able to bring our babies home when we went. So we thought that would be pretty cool and started praying for that back in February last year.
The point is we have told people "we don't know, but we're praying!" Matt explained that's not really faith in action. So we have decided that we are going to tell people who ask, "Yes, we are bringing them home in February cause God's gonna work it out!" I kinda joked and told Matt, what do we tell people if it doesn't actually work out cause it wasn't really God's plan? Do we just come back and say, "Well, we lied :)". But then, I had to remind myself,...faith Terah! IT'S HARD! FAITH IS HARD TO ACT OUT AT TIMES, and it comes across as lack of trust.
I heard one time that if you feel like you are having trials with the same theme it's probably because you haven't mastered it yet. Kinda like in school, you have to keep going over those multiplication facts until you've mastered them! Well, I believe that God allows us to be tried to master things that will make us holy. Which is why this is our Journey of Faith. We are hoping to master it pretty soon so we can end this chapter of our Journey :) We're ready for our babies to come home!
In some other news. Little by Little God provides! Our church had given us some stuff that we could sell on Craig's List. We have sold alot of our stuff but the BIG stuff from the church wasn't selling. We finally sold one of the things from the church. Half of the money we gave back to go toward the children's new play ground at the church and the other half went to our adoption. Slowly that thermometer is moving up, and every time it does it's a testament of how powerful God is. We knew that He had called us to this adoption and we believe that He will provide for it all! He has so far! What an awesome God!

Jehovah Jireh--OUR PROVIDER

Yet, another lesson of TRUST! God is so good and he is our provider! We had an amazing Thanksgiving weekend with family. We were really looking forward to the weekend just to get away and be away from all the business we've had lately. We were surprised with the blessings God had in store for us! We truly had a thankful heart over Thanksgiving! Let me share with you how God moved! First of all...let we had been praying about our mission trip to Liberia, which is completely separate from our adoption. We had planned on going to Liberia before all the adoption stuff had happened. We had a huge deadline for our trip coming up the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Matt and I combined had to raise a total of almost $3,000 in two weeks. We thought we were going to have to come up with it on our own. We had been praying to God about it and asking for his help, and I KNEW He COULD do it and provide it all, but I didn't know if He WOULD. So we were blessed with some money right before we had left and had about $600 to go. I was satisfied, I thought, okay, we can handle $600, that's easier than $3,000, and thanked God for what He had done. But we soon found, He wasn't done.
Each year in the Huff family we use the money we would spend on each other to put into a big "pot" and give other families a nice Christmas that wouldn't have one. We collect a list from the families and get together as a family and have one huge shopping trip together followed by a fun filled lunch! It's alot of fun! So this year my dad announces that we only have one family to shop for this year and so all the money that was left over they wanted to give to us to help out with our trip and adoption. I was of course bawling my eyes out!
The next day we are at Matt's parents eating lunch when they announced that they wanted to help a family in need this year too. They wanted to be apart of bringing home our babies and helping us with our mission trip as well! It was an emotional weekend needless to say! God said, "You thought I was done? I have more blessings in store for you!" He opened up the floodgates on this one!
I am truly grateful for my family. Not just because of the financial support they gave us but because they are such an amazing group of people truly seeking to be Christ to others! I am proud to be apart of what they do and who they are and who they radiate from their lives, Christ!
So over the weekend we paid for our trip to Liberia (actually we have $30 to go), and we were able to pay $1600 towards adoption fees!!!! The funny thing is that the next week we got a bill in the mail for Marie...$1500 :) God is Jehovah-Jireh...The Great Provider!!! He's in control of any obstacle that comes our way!
Thank you God!