Happy Birthday Papa!!!

Today is Papa's 69th birthday :)  We went up to celebrate his special day with him on Saturday.  It was very important to Lexy that he have a great cake so she picked out the mix, helped me make it and then decorated it all by herself!

More silliness

Our home and family...and friends are always full of silliness and we love it!

Soccer Star

Lexy had a great indoor soccer season this year.  She had a new coach that taught her so much!  Her team didn't win every game but they sure had fun and that's what it's all about....I can't stand those kids (and parents) that aren't happy or having fun unless they're winning!

1 Week!

We got word that the best interest staffing for the 2 year old little girl is set for April 12th at 10 am!!  There are still three other families being considered with us so our worker keeps emphasizing that we may not be chosen by the team.  I let her know that we are ready for whatever is meant to be :)  If this little girl is meant to be our daughter then we will be thrilled but if she's not then we will move forward to find the child(ren) that are meant to be ours.

One more week and we will find out!!!!  I want to nest and shop SO badly but I'm forcing myself to wait.  I will admit though that I've run through in my head a million times what I want to do around the house and buy and what it will be like to have that sweet little girl as a part of our family :)

Ryan's room makeover

Robin and I completed her son, Ryan's room makeover today!  Ryan hasn't had a bedroom of his own in two years (he's now 6) and has been begging for one.  So last week we shopped, this past Friday we painted the room and some of the accessories/furniture and then today we put the room together and revealed it to Ryan after school...



RYAN



I love doing room makeovers :) especially for kids!  The smile on their face the first time they see the room makes all the hard work worth it!

Here's Ryan's sister, Molly's room that we redid a few months ago...

Silly Girls!!

Brooke, Lexy & Suzy

THE birthday present...

will hopefully be ready by Brooke's birthday!  We have been looking diligently for the past couple of months for a C.A.R. that was decent or could be made decent for a good price.  Those are hard to find nowadays!  Brooke had a few must-not-haves, the biggest being that the car could not look like a box but for the most part she just wants a car! :)  Finally yesterday Uncle CJ called and said he had found one for a very good price that he thought Brooke would like (after it's fixed up of course!).

We went to look at it last night and even as ugly as it is right now...Brooke was in love!  She handed over the money she had worked so hard to make and save this past summer (and we paid the remainder).  So we are going to do an Extreme Makeover on this little car so it runs and looks pretty and then reveal it to Brooke, hopefully sometime around her 15th birthday!

So if anyone wants to donate to the fix up Brooke's ugly car fund (grandmas and grandpas???) feel free! :)  We are so fortunate that Uncle CJ is doing the work but there's still plenty for us to pay for...parts, tires, a paint job, seat covers/steering wheel cover (zebra of course!) plus the many other things that I'm sure will come up between now and the reveal!!!