Almost Home

Tomorrow Ella will go with us and Tuesday we will fly home! We are so excited to welcome her to our family and welcome her to her new home! We will try to post up pictures as soon as we can and add pictures to her blog that I just set up. I wanted to express our love and appreciation to her incredible foster family that have welcomed us into their lives and into their family!

How fast they grow!!

This was Jan 30 2009 and yes it was beautiful weather that day! And my sweeet boy who has grown soi fast and so independent. The shirt he wears says "Mommys little Monster" and it sao suits him! He is go, go, go and what can I destroy after I distract Mommt with something else I have already destroyed...lol. But his smiles light up each day and his sweet voice talking in "toddlerese" make me wish these days would never end. I never thought I could feel this way, how much love fills my heart when I look at my incredible children. I thank God everyday for the miracle of adoption and for our wonderful birthmother's who trusted us with these angels.

Playing at the park

On Friday afternoons after school, some of the kids (and parents of course) go to a local park to play. Here Anna was playing with her friend Hayley.

On this particular day, I was struck on how much full circle I have come. I had a brief flash of a long forgotten memory of playing in a park kind of like this one when I was Anna's age. There was kind of a nostagia in the memory. And its amazing how much time has gone and here I was watching my children play in a park on a sunny day.

Chinese New Year

Anna's school had this very cute celebration for Chinese New Year. It was fun to watch adn she loved doing it.

Don't kill me!

Okay, okay, Okay, I know it's been too long since I have blogged, so don't shoot me! Here have these!!! We were having a FHE lesson adn after all this time, I sadly don't remember what, but we did color these crowns. SO here we are showing off out crowns! Dave and I shared a crown and we each did half and I colored Caidens, since to him crayons are edible!

Santa trouble

This is the very best picture of Caiden with Santa this year. This picture was taken at the base Christmas tree lighting. After waiting in line for half an hour there we were Anna was sitting on his lap, Caiden was put on his lap and we had to be quick!
AS you can see but ten seconds later the situation deteriorated! Later when I took the two to meet Santa in the mall, I ended up only getting pictures for Anna. 6 feet away from Santa Caiden was fussy. 5 feet he was nervous. 4 feet he was crying and 3 feet he was crying, panicking, and shaking so hard! The poor boy was absolutely terrified! We tried one more time at the ward Christmas party and the same thing happened. Santa is Caiden's bad list!

Another fall day at the beach Oct 2008

Anna is the supreme big sister! She adores helping her little brother (almost smothering Caiden in helping, in the process). But they are so sweet together and he adores her too.

For those who have not been to the beach in awhile.......this is what sand looks like, ha ha ha ha.
This is one of the views of Carbrillo Beach looking out at the Pacific Ocean.