About Our Family

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!

December 24, 2008

Dreams Really Do Come True...

Ella Grace Ana Payne 12-24-2008


From Steven Curtis Chapman's "All I Really Want For Christmas"

All I really want for Christmas is someone to tuck me in; A shoulder to cry on if I lose, shoulders to ride on if I win; There's so much I could ask for, but there's just one thing I need; All I really want for Christmas is a family...


All I want for Christmas is someone who'll be here; To sing me happy birthday for the next 100 years; And It's okay if they're not perfect or even if they're a little broken; That's alright, 'Cause so am I ...

All I really want for Christmas is someone to tuck me in; Tell me I'll never be alone, someone whose love will never end; Of all that I could ask for, well, there's just one thing I need; All I really want for Christmas is a family...


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6 comments:

Conethia and Jim Bob said...

You have a an extremely blessed year. What a beautiful girl. Many blessings for the new year.

2/1/09 07:51
Anonymous said...

How sweet is she!!!

MP

2/1/09 11:44
ArtworkByRuth said...

Beautiful! Happy New Year!

2/1/09 19:59
Kevin and Tammy said...

That is such a wonderful son. And now we have four children who have this dream fulfilled.
Tammy

3/1/09 17:53
junglemama said...

What a sweet picture!

3/1/09 21:56
Stefanie and Bill said...

Sweet Baby Girl! Dreaming like she has never dreamed before!
So happy for all of you!
Stefanie

4/1/09 18:28

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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.

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