Happy 2012!

I hope that everyone's year is off to an exciting beginning filled with the prospect of a year of adventures!!

Before looking ahead, a look back at 2011:
The Vagnoni 2011 Top Ten List of Blessings
10 - December: the re-launch of SomeThings Creative, our small side business (with the addition of Mike’s skills) - cheesecakes, custom artwork, and more! Please visit our website: http://somethingscreative.weebly.com/index.html
9 - February 6: PACKERS WIN THE SUPERBOWL!!
8 - August 11-13: 2nd (hopefully annual) Green Bay, Wisconsin mini-vacation – We take in Packer’s Training Camp (“It’s the real Aaron Rogers! But why is he wearing a red shirt?”), Bay Beach Amusement Park, and the New Zoo, plus a pool with curly slide at the hotel – WOW!
7 - October 31: Amy begins part time in home child care job. We love having A here for our adventures on Monday and Tuesday evenings and Wednesday and Thursday morning/afternoons!
6 - September 3-6: Hosting the America World Adoption Reunion – a time to gather with other families who have adopted from Ethiopia – we had a blast!
5 - September 30-October 1: Crossroads of America Adoption Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana – an amazing weekend in which we gained not only some fantastic information on adoption and adoption resources but a glimpse into the future the Lord has for us!
4 - June 9-17: Pennsylvania trip – We visited Mike’s sister and her family. A truly wonderful week of spending time with family, sightseeing, and memory making!!
3 - Church and Small Groups – Awesome Sunday teaching for both us and the boys and spiritual support and guidance from small group members!
2 - Family and Friends – The love and blessings heaped on us and the laughter and joy they have brought are immeasurable!
AND THE VAGNONI FAMILY NUMBER ONE BLESSING OF 2011 …
1 - A second year with John and Ryan in which they were excited about: sledding down hills, looking for buds on the trees, playing on the castle, checking daily to see how the flowers had grown, visiting the sprinkler park, trips to the Milwaukee Zoo, birthday parties, Galena Weekend, family camping, starting kindergarten and preschool, play dates, raking leaves, trick or treating (as Superman and Batman), making movies, library story time, going to church on Sunday mornings, cheering the Packers with Daddy, and a million other every day adventures that when seen through the eyes of a child are magic! We are blessed … our cup runneth over.

And now, on with 2012!!!!! We have begun this year with the continued passion to adopt, the surety and prospect of additional income, and the decision to begin fundraising with the hope of starting our paperwork in late summer or early fall. So with that said, we humbly ask for your prayers in the process - please pray for God's will and timing, our trust and patience in His will and timing, and joy in the journey.