A new little Angel has entered our lives........

Huge Congratulations to our dear friends Erin, Bob, and of course big sister Mollianne!!!! Today they received their referral for Meisey Faith Xin!!!

To my dear friend Erin: Girl you believed, you dreamed, you waited, you kept the faith and now your family has been blessed!! We love you and are so excited to meet Miss Meisey!!!

Slowly but surely.....

I can see and feel my old self emerging back into this crazy thing called life. It has been a rough few weeks but hopefully we are getting back on track. Thanks again for all the wonderful support, and comment during this time. They really helped me alot!!

I know I am way behind on blogging and I have a ton of pictures to share. I think I will have the opportunity to catch up this weekend. Until then let me just give you a sneak peek.

Tonight was Kelby's first football game of the season. Even though they lost he did awesome and he had the cutest cheerleader ever in the stands rooting for him.

Practicing her pom pom shake and yell!

Go team go!!

We are blessed beyond measure to have been chosen to be parents to this wonderful little girl. She is a fireball of personality and is growing and changing everyday. Earlier this week we celebrated 5 months since Gotcha Day. Has it really only been 5 months? Looking back a pictures from that day Avery has already changed soooo much. They really do grow up in the blink of an eye.

Hope everyone is having a good week. Thanks for checking in!!

Happy Birthday Dad!!!!!!!!!!!

56 years ago today the world was turned on it's side: Daddy Wayne was born....and things have never been the same since!!

Happy Birthday Dad, we love you and hope you had a wonderful day!!!

Party Crashers.....

My cousin Terria's bible study class had an outing last Friday night for go cart riding and miniature golf. They generously invited us to tag along. We met 2 other awesome couples and they were so nice and welcoming. We went to an indoor go cart track and competed in several races. There were some competitive spirits but no crashes. After our races were over we play glow in the dark miniature golf complete with 3D glasses!! As you were putting your ball the random 3D images would jump out at you. It was a very unique experience.

Avery way very entertained by the the video game section. She spent several minutes crawling all over this light board.
Do we have a dancer in our future?

At one point she even lay down and rolled across it to see if more lights would come on.

Here we are inside the golf course.

Obviously it was all pirate themed.

Tracy and Terria pose for a picture.

The group (minus me) at the last hole.

After we left the facility we all went to a local Mexican restaurant for a late night snack. While there we watched the Olympics on the big screen and watched Michael Phelps win the 7th gold medal. The entire restaurant erupted when he was declared the winner in that race.

Amy, Brian, Tracy, Paul, and of course Joe and Terria thank you so much for letting us tag along with you guys. We had a wonderful time!!

The end of the bath seat

Since Avery came home we have been using a bath ring type seat in the bathtub. She will sit in this seat and entertain herself for up to an hour. She has a ton of bath toys and seems to get alot of enjoyment from them. I usually use this time to relax or complete a couple of household chores. I do step out of the room on occasion but not for more than a minute or two and can hear her splashing and visualize her often. Saturday night I stepped out to her room (right next door) to change the crib sheet. When I left the room she was safely in her bath seat playing away. I heard a large amount of splashing and laughing and entered the room only 30-45 seconds later to find this:
so I guess that the bath seat will now RIP and mommy will have to stay in the room with my little houdini. Yes that big blue thing to the left just floating around is the bathseat that I "thought" was her restraint.

Good thing I always have the camera with me because when I turned around to put it up after taking the above picture she decided she was no longer content just to be sitting there. And this is what I saw:
"Look Mom, I'm more mobile everyday!!"

So long to the long leisurely baths, hello to getting in cleaning up and getting out!! Her new thing is to take the pitcher we use for rinsing hair after shampooing, fill it with water, and pour it OUTSIDE the tub.

Our little mischief maker!!!!

Thanks for checking in!!