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the man I married, my wonderful husband

Kellie Davenport — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:09:34 +0000

I just wanted to post a little post about the amazing, fantastic, huge hearted, compassionate, loving, God fearing man I am so blessed to call my husband. He will probably strongly dislike this post (well because he is humble and doesn’t like attention to be on him, another great quality he has) but I just wanted to thank him! Jason, I just wanted to tell you how much I adore you and am so thankful you are my husband! You heart continues to amaze me, your willingness to grow in the Lord, willingness to grow and change and just your adoration for me and our boys continues to blow me away. Thanks for loving me the way that I am but encouraging me to be a better wife, mom, friend, daughter and overall person. Thanks for being our rock, for being my best friend and for always being there WHENEVER I need you. You inspire me to be a better person and I am so thankful you are the daddy to our boys. They are so blessed to be raised by such a wonderful man like you! BABE I LOVE YOU!! Hope you have a great day at work today! Thanks for all that you do!

our dynamic duo OH I LOVE THEM!

Kellie Davenport — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:29:21 +0000

Moving forward in our adoption!!

Kellie Davenport — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:38:18 +0000

So I’ll have to admit I have been a little hesitant to share the details up until this point well for one they are probably a little boring and I just wasn’t sure that I wanted all of the details in the open until we were pregnant. As I thought more and more this made absolutely NO sense to me. This is not our story but our baby’s story. So I will begin the sharing and the sharing of all of the details. Two Sundays ago we had our last homestudy visit and it went really well. The social worker came and checked out our house and we talked about our adoption of embryos(babies) you will now probably notice I will be shifting my term from embryo to baby because that is what we believe they are and now that most of you know the process and that we are adopting an embryo not a child who has already been born I am going to start referring to our baby as it is “a baby” who is only a few days old in the gestational process. So with that being said this week we will probably be matched with a family who has only one baby (embryo). In our process of our homestudy we learned that the babies that are having the hardest time being adopted are from families who only have a single embryo. Our hearts broke for these children and knowing our situation is unique in that ideally we would only like one more child this is what we felt called to. Yes the ODDS are not in the our favor considering the chances of the baby surviving the thawing process is only 50% and then the chances of it surviving the implantation process are even lower 17% we believe this baby deserves a chance at life. So we have decided to adopt one baby at this point in time and give it that chance. The thought of giving this baby a chance at life just makes my heart race and gets me so excited. I feel so blessed that I am capable to carry children (I don’t take this for granted) and that I will hopefully be able to carry our adopted child. I feel this is such an amazing concept. To feel them move in my belly, to be able to give birth to him/her (which Jason sometimes thinks I’m crazy for wanting to do that again but for those who have given birth to a child you know that there is nothing like it and yes as much as it hurts we would do it over and over again. Kind of a crazy concept but I’m thankful the Lord allows us to kind of forget all of that pain. Anyways we are praying for the little one we will be adopting and that they survive the thawing process as well as the implantation process. Sometimes it is hard for me to wrap my mind around our baby possibly not making it because they are being thawed out but then I keep reminding myself they have to be thawed to even have a chance at life and God is so much bigger than I can even imagine and if he wants this child to survive it will. Please join us in praying. Thanks for all of your love, support and feedback. Please also be praying for the genetic parents this week as I’m sure there are a lot of emotions that go into giving your child up for adoption. We will keep you updated as we go. We would love for you to also be praying for our baby now and for their life we know that prayer is powerful and we want to continue to speak life for this child. Thanks again for all of your prayers and from this point on our story is an open book.

videos galore

Kellie Davenport — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:49:34 +0000

I know I have not written much lately but hopefully these videos will make up for it. We have dance parties in our house quite often and usually we just turn on the 80’s channel on the tv and rock out to that. The boys have a blast and we have fun laughing at/with them. Also some of you I’m sure are aware of Levi and his boots he basically wears his boots everyday and we think it is fantastic and adorable. Tytus also had a pair that he grabs to wear sometimes but they are just too hard to walk in but super cute. I love my boys and their unique personalities!!!

one of a kind designs

Kellie Davenport — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:58:06 +0000

Well I’m going to take a stab at making a few extra dollars to help out with our adoption costs. I am not sure how well it will do but heck if I sell one onesie it is $8 dollars more than we had yesterday right? So here is my site check it out and pass it on if you know anyone who may be interested. Thanks!!!

Check our our site one of a kind designs

Please give me feedback on how to improve my site as well. I’m open to anything considering I’m a total rookie!!!!

the boys are growing up fast, almost too fast

Kellie Davenport — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 05:37:55 +0000

so my boys are getting big. ok enough said. well maybe i’ll elaborate a little bit. Levi is a boy now, not a baby anymore, not a toddler anymore, but a BOY. He is a mini me in so many ways but then has the heart of compassion like his father not saying I’m not compassionate well not as much as jase for sure. anyways he is just so much fun to be around but it is strange how our kids grow from babies, to toddlers, to what feels like another adult in our household. today my dad took levi golfing (which is so much fun for him, he loves every second of it and tells us all of the details when he gets home) anyways jason and i took tytus with us as we ran a few errands and it was strange first of all to only have one kid (wow that sure is easy) i remember when i thought one kid was so much work. anyways ty was in the back and jase and i were talking away and it’s funny how when your kids are that young you can talk about anything and they have no clue, ty was in the back seat singing and talking to himself and it was a strange reality how time flies because now we talk with levi in the car he is in most of our converstaions and if he isnt in them and we say something he doesnt understand he then asks questions and usually becomes a teaching time. gotta love those car teaching times. wow such a side note well with all of that to say our boys are growing up fast.

tytus, well he is growing mostly physically. aww i love our little tank. he makes us laugh all the time and loves trying to keep up with his big brother. he is now repeating words we say, loves doing animal sounds and cars and balls are his favorite. here are a few random pictures and a video of the boys.

i’m a blessed mama to be home raising these little men.

loved this

Kellie Davenport — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:01:21 +0000

As I was reading today a study called the Gospel Centered Life by Bob Thune and Will Walker I was encouraged by this part -By faith, we must cling to the gospel promise that we are adopted as God’s children. Jesus’ righteousness has been credited to us apart from works (Romans 4:4-8) We don’t need to do anything to secure God’s love and acceptance; Jesus has secured it for us. I have been thinking about this and WOW so amazing!!!! AWWW just love it!

I thought I’d post a little update as well. Boys are doing fantastic healthy, happy and hilarious. We are just loving this fun summer with the kiddos PLAYING, PLAYING and more PLAYING. Jason is working hard as always to provide for us and is doing well. Praising God for good health these last few months and praying for many more months of it.

Q and A with Levi

Kellie Davenport — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:06:57 +0000

Thought I’d post some stuff from our Q and A with Levi.

Levi came to me one day while he was digging in the dirt on the side of our house and in his EVER SO ENTHUSIASTIC Levi voice he said, “Mama I know we can make a ball tree” I said ok what is that and how do we do it? He replied, “We dig a hole put your soccer ball in it and seeds and water it and wait and wait until it grows and grows and grows and it will be a soccer ball tree” then he paused for a few seconds and said “Let’s do it now!” —- Oh I love my kid

The other night my mom was here and so I was chatting with her so I was a little late to go in a pray with Levi and Jason so they prayed while I was in the other room so when I came in to pray with Levi and say good night he told me “Mama I prayed for your tooth, dont worry God will make it feel better in no time. It will feel better in the morning time.” — I love our kid and his childlike faith!

Levi asked me and then answered his own question “What happens when my teeth fall out? I put it behind the pillow because teeth always turn into sumping” —- that was new to me the only thing I remember them turning into were money sometimes even a twenty when the tooth fairy was not able to break a bill because of an unexpected loose tooth falling out at night thanks dad–I won’t be telling Levi my tooth fairy was rich

Date Night

Kellie Davenport — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:06:40 +0000

Last night my mom so kindly watched our boys so Jase and I could have a kidless date night. Those times are such a blessing and so needed to refresh and in some aspects reconnect. It is nice to get out have a peaceful meal and be able to talk without inturruptions. I really cherish those times. Last night we went on a walk after dinner and it was so nice to get out in the fresh air and enjoy a beautiful summer evening. I decided to take my camera and play around with our timer so Jase had to play along with me and my need for a photography session. (thanks babe) Anyways we took a few pictures so here they are. I haven’t updated lately well because I haven’t had a ton to write about and have been pretty busy so I will do my best to get back into the swing of writing. Until then have a blessed day!!

date night!

he is so handsome

on the bridge

seriously love this man

the bridge

yep he is strong!!

Thanks babe for taking me out! I love you and feel so blessed to be your wifey!!

Thankful

Kellie Davenport — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:59:44 +0000

While I was praying this morning I was thinking how thankful I was that Levi has been feeling so well. I know yes it is summer time and he usually does much better but with that to say I AM SO THANKFUL. We have a calendar that we keep track of how he is feeling (when he is sick) to keep track of the last time he was on an antibiotic and what kind and for how long as well as his symptoms so we can have records if needed for assistance in further treatments. Anyways today I went to look at that calendar because of my thankfulness and was overjoyed to see it has been just about 3 months since the last time he was sick the only thing he has had in the last 3 months was a runny nose that lasted about 2 weeks but thankfully nothing came of it. So with all of this to say I am overjoyed to inform you this may be the longest span of time that Levi has been completely healthy!! PRAISE GOD!!! When we pray each night for our little man we plead for healing from CF, a cure, and for his daily health and it has been amazing to see that the last 3 months he has done so well and the Lord’s faithfulness to answer those prayers. We are praying this good health continues!!!! Thank you to all of you who have been praying for Levi as well as continuing to press in for a Cure for CF. We have been hit pretty hard emotionally these last few months by CF and it just makes me want to fight even harder for a cure!! So today I thought I would post our old walk link and ask for any type of donation for CF again Even $5 dollars is truly so much if all of my family and friends just donated $5 dollar each today it truly could add up to so much!!! We feel so blessed to be surrounded by so many who love us and who truly care about our family. We are always so encouraged and overjoyed by the love we have in our lives. So thank you!!!

also wanted to tell you guys how awesome we did this year in raising money for CF from our walk. So far this year the FOR THE LOVE OF LEVI TEAM has raised $12,967.15 ISNT THAT AMAZING!!! THANK YOU!!!! So today I thought it would be fantastic if we could get our total over $13,000 so if you would like to dontate to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation CLICK HERE