Continued Post #2

Continuing with my previous post, here is a bit more of what we have been up to.

At Leyton's preschool they have Mr Bear, a special little bear that gets a chance to come home with each child for the weekend and then we get to take pictures and document what kind of things Mr Bear gets to do and send it back to school the next week. Mr Bear was lucky enough to go out in the combine with Grandpa (my Dad) and Leyton. What a crazy year it was for all the farmers, our family was lucky enough to have everything out of the field by Christmas, not everyone around here was so lucky. I think this harvest will be talked about for many many years to come.

We continued to spend our Monday's with Grandma, previously talked about here http://pregnancybypaper.blogspot.com/2009/07/lunch-with-grandma.html Love this picture of Leyton trying to feed the cattle on the farm one Monday.

Landon kept us busy with his first time playing soccer. Here he is with his cousin Lily. Don't you just love her pink soccer pads!

to be continued (again (: )

Long overdue post #1

Yikes, it has been a LONG time since I last posted so I figured a quick photo recap of the last few months was the easiest way to start blogging again. The past few months have been super busy getting used to our new school routines with the boys in 1st grade and preschool this year, lots of fun family activities and just trying to keep busy and get our minds off this wait (yes we are still waiting, I will get back to that in another post soon).


In September we were supposed to have family pictures taken with my side of the family and due to rain it got cancelled. We ended up getting together anyhow and having a picnic in the woods at my parents and taking pictures ourselves with the tripod and timer on the camera. The kids were having so much fun watching the red light flash with the timer we actually got a shot that wasn't too bad!



If we take these pictures next year we hope that our family will have grown by 3 more people! My sister in law is due with a boy in June, we are hoping (but realistically not so sure) that we will have Sadie home in 2010, and my oldest brother and his wife announced they will be giving me another nephew, a gorgeous little boy who is almost 6 from Ethiopia, we are praying he comes home soon!






Fall is my favorite season and the boys and I had a blast hiking, throwing rocks and playing in the leaves!

Landon turned 7 in October, still so hard to believe! I have to admit I can't believe I am old enough to have a SEVEN year old lol, but that is my own issue :) We had his family birthday party at the cabin and he had a glow in the dark golfing party for his friends. Love the picture of him praying at his party and the one with sweet little Vivi (my niece) cuddling with him. She has been great practice getting the boys ready for a little sister!

We had a Bakugan boy and a Dragon for Halloween this year. If you have boys that are a little older you have probably heard of Bakugans, they were the HUGE thing in our house this past year (although I haven't seen him play with them much lately, maybe they are on their way out). Halloween is CRAZY for us, first we hit Granny's, always a huge hit, ice cream for Landon and cheese for Leyton, they were in heaven lol! I think we had 3 more family stops before we got to the actual trick or treating. The boys are at great ages and had a blast! Oh can't forget the S. Korean flag Dan carved out of our pumpkin, turned out very cool!

More to come..............

Preschool

I have 2 big school boys now! Leyton started preschool a couple of weeks ago and although the first couple days were a little rough (only for a few minutes), he has been very happy to go to his "blue school" the last couple of times. I just love picking him up after school and him running to me with his little backpack, such a cutie!

LOVE this!

Landon came home from school today with a drawing he did and I just LOVE it! It was so cool to see his perception of our family! I think we look like a nice family of 5 don't you agree ? Love that we are all smiling and that he drew himself with glasses. The coolest part though is to see "baby sister" crawling! It just makes me so proud that even though we don't know who she is she is still so much a part of our family to ALL of us! Love that kid :)

Aren't they cute!

We made it!

We hit our one year anniversary of waiting today and to celebrate I wanted to take pictures of the boys with the number 12 instead of just finding a picture. Well if you have ever tried to pose children and take a specific picture you know that it isn't as easy as it looks lol! So while I think the one above turned out pretty cute I will also post some funny outtakes from our little photo session.

"MOM, he is touching me again"

(what you don't see is the number 1 floating to the very wet grass below) that would be the end of the pictures this time!

New Beginnings!

Yesterday was day 1 of 1st grade at Landon's new school! We were anxiously waiting to hear how he liked it when the school day was over. I got a very enthusiastic "I LOVE IT", he was so excited and talkative about his day we were thrilled! His 2nd day was just as exciting, he came home telling me about the Spanish words he learned, how to say look in sign language and that he got to do math (his favorite). Such a big couple of days for our sweet little man (who I cannot believe is old enough to be in 1st grade :(, or that I am old enough to have a 1st grader for that matter lol). Daddy pulled out yet another of his teeth last night, between that and school he had a very exciting day and ended the day telling us that even he was proud of himself lol!

We hit the 11 month mark!

Well actually we are well past the 11 month mark and are almost to our 1 year wait, crazy! In some ways it feels so much longer than almost a year and in some ways it feels like it has flown by. Not much to report, the girl referrals have come to a screeching halt since MAY so I am not even going to render a guess on what our future holds, I have come to the peace that our path will be just that and it will happen when and how it is supposed to.

We did receive our I-171H in the mail this week, which means we are now officially approved to adopt and have no more paperwork to do at this stage. Once we receive our referral is a whole different story. It is such a relief to have all of it done and approved though, such a big step!