The Hunter Home

On June 13, Carson turned 2 years old. This was our first birthday with him home and we were excited to throw him a party. He has a thing for airplanes right now and can spot them from inside the car even when they are only tiny specks in the sky. So we decided to [...]

Click here for a version with photos that include Carson (password available at our facebook accounts) From the day we first saw pictures of our children, we’ve imagined what it would be like to meet them face to face. We watched them grow over the past year through pictures and video and feel like we [...]

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We’ve dealt with ugly spiders and fast moving silverfish, neither of which I appreciate invading our apartment. But today, upon my arrival home I was greeted by a new, just as hideous creature. A ROACH!! I’ve heard about other people finding these pests, but so far I’ve never once seen one. I was less than [...]

The Ethiopian program through our agency, Celebrate Children International (CCI), is a fairly new program. So far, no children have come home from Ethiopia through CCI. That is about to change, however! The first group of families had their court dates in early March, and by March 26 they were on their way to Addis [...]

The end of our paperwork is in sight.  I know I’ve been saying that to everyone for weeks now, but we really are getting closer.  Here’s what’s happened in the last couple weeks: Our home study was completed and sent to Immigration and Celebrate Children Celebrate Children approved our home study and issued letters of [...]

If I’m learning anything from our adoption process, it’s that God’s timing is best.  When we started our adoption I set a goal of having our dossier completed by the end of February (That was only giving ourselves a month, by the way).  Well, here it is the beginning of April, and we are still [...]

On Friday, a snowstorm blew through Louisville, and in preparation for the storm, Anchorage closed school! This was the first snow day that they’ve had in a long time, and my first since working there. I spent the morning taking pictures of the beautiful snow around town. Saturday, was even prettier! It snowed all Friday [...]

Today we are a little closer to being “paper work-ready,” as they call it. Today I took our dossier to the courthouse downtown to get the notary signatures verified. It was quite the process, but thankfully the most difficult part was parking. It was a beautiful, sunny day, so everyone was out walking around downtown [...]

When I was really young, I sometimes imagined myself as a missionary in a foreign country, running an orphanage. I couldn’t stand the thought of children living in deplorable conditions without loving parents. I dreamed of having my own orphanage, that I would keep as clean as could be, and I would be like the [...]