About Our Family
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- El Paso, Texas, United States
- We are James, Lisa, Patrick, Christian, Carson, and Ella Payne a military family serving our country via service in the U.S. Army. Jim and I have been married for 18 years and have 3 wonderful home grown sons -Patrick, Christian and Carson. We recently adopted our beautiful daughter Ella Grace Ana from Donets'k, Ukraine in September. Jim and I began our Army life together at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas and every assignment thus far has extended unique opportunities and challenges for our family to grow and learn; to become a stronger, committed, and a prepared Army family. Having recently lived abroad for six amazing years, we cannot express how thankful we are for the opportunity to have represented our great country and to discover the cultures and customs of other countries; to become close to the people and learn from them; to open our hearts and minds to the unfamiliar languages and way of life in other countries. Having now moved back to the United States, we are looking forward to discovering what new adventures await our family. Rest assured, wherever the Army sends us we will continue to serve you and our country proudly. Army life, we wouldn’t trade it!
October 8, 2008
Taking the Plunge...
Today we took the plunge....swimming of course! Christian, Carson, Ella and I (Lisa) opted for the pool today after school. The boys really needed the break from homework. We arrived at the indoor pool and Ella thought we were going to a restaurant as she kept yelling with excitement "EAT!" "EAT!" Once we were inside she was equally excited when she saw the pool. We went to our respective dressing rooms and put on our swim gear and headed out to the pool. Now, everything echos at an indoor pool so her normal LOUD shriek was amplified! Christian and Carson were dutiful big brothers and gently helped her into the pool, went to get her a life vest, and then a paddle board which she LOVED! She played with them for an hour. Jumping off the side of the pool and going under about a hundred times until the slide opened. She cannot swim but didn't seem to mind going under or being "dumped" off the end of the slide. Everyone had a great hour of fun! I think it will become on Wednesday activity for the day. I didn't take the camera this time...sorry. I will next time, promise!
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This is our "spot" we began at the beginning of our journey in May 2007, to adopt a child from Ukraine. In August 2008, we traveled to Ukraine to bring our daughter/sister Ella Grace Ana home; and on September 12, 2008 we did just that.
While our journey to bring her home is complete, our journey together is just beginning. We will continue to keep our spot here, posting as frequently as we can; and keeping you updated on our next journey in life...maybe a second adoption is in our future.
Please join us by following us by clicking on the "Follow" link to the left and posting your notes at the bottom of any post we have made.
While our journey to bring her home is complete, our journey together is just beginning. We will continue to keep our spot here, posting as frequently as we can; and keeping you updated on our next journey in life...maybe a second adoption is in our future.
Please join us by following us by clicking on the "Follow" link to the left and posting your notes at the bottom of any post we have made.
1 comment:
Glad to hear Ella is adapting well . I will be out of touch for a bit since our day of traveling is soon approaching. I will let you know as soon as I'm up and running.
Love you all,
Rachel
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