By request...more pics of Makai!!

Here are some fun photos from Makai's first photo shoot! 

Fun, fun,

...he is getting used to the flash from my camera!

Blue is Home!!

We had a wonderful time visiting Pam and James in North Carolina and want to say a big thank you to them for letting us stay at their beautiful home and spend some time with them.  It was so nice to give Makai his first bath there and get some time to relax and enjoy Pam's great cooking! Taya misses them already!

We arrived at home yesterday at 4:30pm and surprised the girls with their new baby brother!

Our Little Tarheel!

We had a wonderful day in Chapel Hill. We spend the day touring the campus. We walked around enjoying the beautiful weather and taking lots of pictures(of course!)

We had fun buying his first little Tarheel gear a UNC hat and a little tarheel polo! Fun!

We had a fabulous time visiting the university and spending time with Tim's aunt Pam and Uncle James, but we are anxious to head home and introduce Makai to his other big sisters!

More about Makai!

In the hurry of getting his photos up I forgot to give you his stats!

Makai Timothy Gesink

May 6, 2009, 6 am

6 pounds 19 inches

He loves to be held (all the time) 

and he is a very good eater!

He slept pretty good last night eating at midnight, 3 and 5ish!

He had his little surgery today and that went well. He slept most of the day

and had fun shopping with dad and mom...here are some more photos...

First diaper change, look out below!

Bonding time with daddy!

Makai Timothy...finally!!!!

Sorry it is so late...we just heard from Shalee a little bit ago that she had finally seen her new brother so we could get the pictures up! 

We got to meet our new son, Makai Timothy at 10:40am this morning! We saw a head full of dark hair being carried down the hall...

It was completely surreal and amazing to finally get to meet him!

We were overjoyed!

So here is what you have been waiting for...our little man...Makai Timothy...finally!

Somebody is in love with him already!!

Proud mom outside the agency!

We are in North Carolina!

We left at about 6pm on Wednesday. May 14th and arrived at our hotel on Thursday, May 15 around 5ish. The ride went well, Taya traveled good and it went pretty fast except when we got to North Carolina then of course it took forever with lots of traffic jams. But we finally made it, we took showers to feel human again and ate some supper. 

Then we drove to Matthews and found the agency just so we could make it easier in the morning!

We are physically and emotionally drained and ready for a good nights sleep! We will get to meet our son tomorrow morning around 10! We will be skyping the girls and family in the afternoon after school and then we will post pictures here after that!

We can feel all the prayers and support and we just want to say thank you to everyone for all your texts and calls along the way. We are so blessed and again feel so grateful...we are so anxious to meet our little man tomorrow!

In His time

He makes all things beautiful

In His time

Lord please show me everyday 

as you're teaching me your way

that you do just what you say

In your time...

Trust and obey, trust and obey

for there's no other way

to be happy in Jesus,

but to trust and obey

these and many more lyrics play through my head as we sit here tonight.

Tim and I think about every emotion we have felt through this whole journey, 

...being scared, worried, eager, frustrated, filled with excitement, anticipation, fear, love, hope, and so much more...

Our social worker Heidi rang our doorbell today and surprised us with some big blue balloons with the words It's a Boy written on them. And we felt an emotion, the biggest emotion we have felt so far...gratefullness. 

We are so grateful for all the prayers and support, encouragement and love we have felt through this whole journey you will never know how much all of you mean to us.

We are so grateful that God has chosen our family to be this little boy's forever family.

We are grateful that God has never left our side and taught us patience and trust as we have walked this journey.

We are so grateful that God shows us his faithfulness and reminds us daily to trust Him in His time.

...with this gratefulness we say a big thank you that we can make the big announcement that in His time God has blessed us with a son.

We ask for your prayers for tomorrow night when we leave and drive to North Carolina to finally bring home blue.

...more details to come, please keep us and our girls in your prayers and our little man...thank you God bless!

Here are a few of the surprise pictures right after we got the news...