Our Family

This is our family.  

We are just four, normal people

that love the Lord

and want to serve Him and grow our 

family through adoption.

Our hearts desire is that by growing our family,
we can share the good news of the Gospel with 
all of the little ones He allows us to raise.

We believe in passing the baton of the Lord's ways 
onto the next generation and we believe adoption
is a beautiful way to disciple and train up warriors for Christ.

Here is a little bit about us:

Tom and I met 23 years ago at a Bible study in college.

He was 19 and I was 18. We happened to be playing

a game of round robin, ping pong and I happened to hit

the little white ball right past him.  Still to this day we 

go back and forth about whether I gently hit it past him

as I say, or I smashed it past him as he says.

Either way the Lord drew our hearts together,
and had knit us to be one.

From there our relationship grew and 20 months later 

we were pledging our lives to each other and to the Lord

at a little church where we both were attending.

That was 21 years ago.

The Lord has brought us through many 

ups and down, ins and outs,

but thankfully through it all 

He has grown us and changed us

in such good ways.

Today, Tom wears many hats.  He is a part time Middle School math teacher at a Christian School and he is also a math tutor. His new adventure includes leading all of us into a family economy and starting some family businesses so he can come home to be with his children more and more.  Tom is an elder of our precious church body, OIKOS Community Church.

 But first and foremost, He is a son of the KING and my loving husband 

and the protector of my heart.

He loves and leads our family in so many special ways:
through family worship, setting a vision out for us,
being a part of our home school adventures, 
shepherding His children, and encouraging me as I am trying to grow as a woman.  Tom enjoys wood working
and home projects.  He loves to be outdoors with his family.

 My name is Kristi and I am a homemaker.

I have come to enjoy this part of my life so much.

I started out our married life graduating from college

and teaching 2nd grade before we "decided" to have our children.

But now that the Lord has drawn me home, I always

look back and wish we had started our family right away.
I know the Lord does not "make mistakes,"

and all of His ways are ordained . . . there is just a part of 

me that wonders what our lives would have been like 

with all sorts of little ones toddling around our home.

I enjoy gardening. I am not that talented 

at growing vegetables, although we have been trying to do that organically for the past couple of years. I do love landscaping and dividing my sweet hostas, lilies and other flowers. I also enjoy devouring good books when I have time and exercising with my family.  Our favorite thing to do is take walks together in the evenings. I am learning how to cook more naturally, as we have had some hard health issues over the years and we have decided to work through them with changing our diets and learning about healing through natural methods.   I also like making my own lotions, sugar scrubs, chap sticks and body sprays using all natural ingredients. Making our home an inviting place as we open it up to others for visiting and fellowshipping together,

is something all of us love to do.

Katie is the young lady in our home.  

She is maturing right before our eyes. 

Katie loves life. She enjoys letter writing,

and has a few pen pals she likes

to keep up with. She also enjoys story writing and reading Lamplighter books. Katie has picked up a new hobby, photography and loves seeing God's creation through the lens of her new camera.  Katie does a beautiful job of journaling our lives with the pictures she takes.   One of Katie's most favorite things, is her church.  She so loves the families there and playing with the children. Because she is the oldest there right now, she tends to 

be a big sister to many of them. 

   

 

Timothy is our little man around the home.

 He and daddy have been enjoying their time together as they work to start a lawn care business.  Timothy enjoys learning about bugs and exploring the the outdoors.  He has taken up learning ways to grow our family garden naturally and he is also exploring the world of red wigglers as he learns about worm composting for his  garden. Timothy spends time reading R.M. Ballantyne books and riding his bike.
Timothy also enjoys playing guitar with Katie and daddy.

 Timothy loves to serve at church.  He and daddy
so enjoy helping with the little ones and picking up the tables
and chairs when church is done for the week.

When you find Katie and Timothy together you will see them making up adventures together. They are always making up stories and acting out different characters.  The two of them

enjoy cooking for mommy and daddy.  We agree they come up with the best menus.  
One thing we love about them is that they want to be friends and they want to encourage others siblings in how to do that.

 We have one more little buddy that lives with us.Her name is Klara.

She is 7 lbs of cuteness and we all enjoy having her around.  

She has a sweet and gentle personality and enjoys having the kids teach her lots of tricks.

Well, that is who we are.

The Gulletts.

We desire to grow our family and share the Gospel of Christ with more children, and right now adoption is the best
way for us to do that. We are working to adopt a little one or a set of siblings domestically.  We want to adopt where there is a need, 
and right now we have found there is a need for Christian families to be open to children of any ethnicity.  So that is where we are starting. We are working with an agency to bring home a baby or more children
of whatever ethnicity the Lord has for us.
 We have dreams to adopt a few times
and walk this road for quite a few years,
whatever the Lord has for us.


Our hope and prayer is that you may want to help us with that in some way. Whether that is through putting our family on your prayer wall, buying something fun through a fundraiser for our family, or sharing some of your humble resources by donating to our Pay pal account on the side bar of this blog. Whatever your family decides, if you don't help us, you could look for someone you can, because we have come to see in God's Word that adoption is for all of us, maybe not through the physical adoption of children into our own home, but maybe just by praying and supporting those that are trying to adopt.

We have found we can all help in some way, 

even if we think those ways appear small.

God uses everything to help His people.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God,
the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself 
unstained from the world.
James 1:27

May the Lord draw your families to HIMSELF

and grow you in ways you never thought He would.

Thank you for stopping by to get to know us a little better.

Thank you for all of your help and support. 

You are a blessing to our all of us.

The Gullett Family

Most pictures on this post were taken by 
Captured by an Angel Photography. 
Thank you dear Daniels' Family