Simple Saturday

Just some favorite pictures from last week.

Tears of Joy

Today I have tears of joy for my friend Sheri. We meet during the time we both were going through pregnancy losses. She was my biggest cheerleader during our adoption struggles.
Today, after 9 miscarriages, Sheri gave birth to her little girl. A dream realized for a family of three who so badly wanted to be a family of 4.

It's a great day!

General Life Update

Just a cute picture to start out a LONG update. Ryan loves his horsey....except he thinks a horse says MOOOO. Oh well, we will work on that.

Things continue to go well at my job. I am starting to look at some classes that I need to take to get my license. I have a couple of years to get it done, and I may have to redo some requirements, but it will be good to get it started. Where I will fit it in I have no idea, but it will happen.

Chandler is getting close to turning 14. Last night we signed him up for high school. Where did that time go? I still remember when he was Ryan's size and walked around carrying his baba all day. Last night he was so excited to be moving on the next chapter in his life and I was trying not to cry! He will be starting to work after we get back from our spring break trip. He is planning on working at the same grocery store his dad works at.

Bailey is getting ready to start her new job in a couple of weeks. She is sharing a paper route with another child down the street. It is an afternoon paper so she will do a couple of weeks and the other person will do a couple of weeks. A good way for her to earn some money, but not take up all of her time. She is going to run track this year again. She will do very well. She is growing taller and taller by the day.

Ryan has a doctor appointment next week. He eats ALL THE TIME. And I mean all the time. He is getting to be a big boy. We are trying to figure out if it is habit or need. I need to send in his report to EAC. I am a month behind or so. I just don't have the time anymore. We have our next official post placement report in April, so that will be here before we know it.

After much thought, we decided we are pretty much done adopting. The economy is making it so hard to do anything but exist, so adoptinog internationally again is out of the question for us. Unless we win the lottery...LOL! If a domestic situation would be dropped in our laps, we would surely not turn down looking at it, but we won't be pursuing anything.

If you got to the bottom of this...YAY, lots to do, lots to say. I am off to do housework, Yay...fun...not.

Our weekend in Des Moines

We sure had fun visiting Aaron's grandparents! Ryan is a fish just like the big kids! I sense a swimming pool in our future.......

Ahhh..a day off!

Sent the kids off to school this morning after a yelling match over a water bottle...I dunno about those 2 teenagers..LOL!
Ryan and I have already been to target and we are just messing around and playing until we go meet my dad for lunch at 11:00.
Hopefully Ryan takes a nice nap, I have lots of cleaning to do to catch up from working all last week!

Look...I can eat by myself!

And I can make a total mess too! Aren't I too cute for words?? Don't mind my little bruise (I am okay) but I sure had fun making a mess.

Laundry stinks

I hate laundry. Enough said. With all of us in the house I can't believe the sheer amount of laundry I get to do per week. With the kids growing so fast I don't buy them a ton of jeans, but that means more laundry to do during the week for me. Tonight is laundry night. 5 loads waiting for me. Oh boy.

Happy Birthday Bailey!!

Happy birthday to my big girl, my princess in a house of princes and my special little girl. Not so little at 13, but will always be my baby girl to me.

I was tagged!

Thanks Joy for tagging me, sorry it took me so long to get it on my blog. The book I am currently reading is Gorky Park.

"For example, an officer returning to his Leningrad boarding house at the end of the war noticed a stain on his ceiling."

Not exactly earth shattering is it. Doesn't even tell you much about the book! It is a good book, one I would recommened for the plane ride over on your trips.

Not much new here. Bailey turns 13 tomorrow so we will be celebrating that. Ryan is growing by leaps and bounds. We are getting rid of all his 18 month clothes as he is just bursting out of them. He is really enjoying more advanced toys these days, so the baby toys are going paka.
He is still deathly afraid of Tigger, the bouncing one and the tumbling one, so we have continued to keep those out of site.

It must be a boy thing.......

So Ryan's list of "disgusting boy behavior" grows. We already knew he was enamored with his...well, you know. At bath time it is his favorite thing to play with.
Not long after he came home he started farting and laughing after he did it. Then came the burping and laughing. Now if anyone does any of the two, he laughs out loud. But then there was tonight.

He hacked a luge. Yes...my 18 month old hacked a luge. I about died. The boys however are still rolling on the floor laughing which encourages him even more. Sigh...poor Bailey and I, the only two DIGNIFIED people in the house.

Please help us. :)