A camping we will go!!

Well, we took an end of summer trip to the cabins to camp! Thankgoodness for camping in CABINS, or should I say, thankgoodness for Jeffs sake,(he would have wanted to strangle me!) that we had cabins and not tents! I sware I must have blocked out all those years of "roughing it" in tents as a child and teen, I can't imagine sleeping out in the woods in a tent where bugs, creatures, darkness, and the smell of dirt surrounding us...Oh I can't imagine!!!
So anyway, our sweet Charlie boy is a boys-boy at heart and looooved every min of our weekend adventure, esp. canoeing, where I again have no idea why I'd ever done this in the past and thought it to be fun...(again, Jeff probably wanted to strangle me during the ride down the river!!!)
So my dear Sophie girl to be, I pray you are every bit of a girls-girl like your mommy, b/c next summer I've already decided we can drop daddy and Charlie off to go on their camping adventures and we can continue heading south to shop!!!
And, no rumors out yet as to the next batch of babies to be.....But I do find it exciting to note that there are only 41 days of people in line ahead of us!!!! Slowly but Surely we ARE getting closer to you my baby girl to be!!!
Love Mommy xoxo

We Survived the first day of Kindergarten!!!

Wow I can't believe we have a kindergartener!! Our Charlie boy did awesome yesterday on his very first LOOOONG 7 hour day all by himself!! I don't think, outside of the few getaway weekends I've been on, that in five years I've ever been away from Charlie that long. He hasn't even really eaten lunch w/o me in all his five years either, so yesterday was a pretty big milestone for all of us!!
Daddy took the day off so we could walk(while Charlie rode his bike)to school. We were so proud of him as he walked right into his classroom, so excited and happy, gave us one hug each and that was it!! We went up to check on him at lunch time, and although he seemed tired, he was okay and said still happy to be there.
And as we picked him up that afternoon, the first thing he said as he got back on his bike to ride home was, " Mommy I loooooooved school!!!!" And that just sums it all up!!!
And Sophie Ruth I pray with all my heart that you and I will be walking up to get your big kindergartener brother very, very soon!!!

Time Flys, and times a changin!!!

Time sure does fly...these are pictures of my last week with all my crew of precious little ones...(who arent' so little any more!)
We started this journey with four...added one more last summer and now two are moving on...I can't believe these kiddos were only 8weeks/2,one year olds and 2, two year olds....and now they are three years old, 2 four year olds, my five year old, a six year old, and the latest addition is one years old....
Saying goodbye to this group will take a lot of adjusting too...
Everything changes, nothing stays the same, that sure is true!
I will cherish these past 3 1/2 years I had with them all together!

End of Summer Trip up North to see my Uncles/Aunt/Cousins..etc.....!

Bye, Bye training wheels!

Summer Fair 2008

Well once again we've survived the famous summer fair in all it's heat and glory!! We had a blast aside from having to peel our clothes off when home from being soooooo hot!!! Charlie actually pointed out a lot of kiddie rides that he said he will be able to take his Sophie on next summer!!!
We FINALLY (after 2 1/2 years) heard more of a definet time frame from our adoption agency. After having to go a 3rd time this past Saturday to be fingerprinted at our immigration office, our agency said it WILL be the last time, b/c they know we will have our baby girl home by THIS Christmas if not, worst case, January!!!! Although I am a bit numb to feeling excited yet at this point, I will admit my stomach did a little dance at the thought that we probably will have Sophie Ruth in our arms in the next 4 or 5 months.....Our agency is known for being very tight lipped and conservative with giving out ANY info as to when they think it will be our turn, so for them to have actually given a statement that it will be by this X-mas, tells us that they must know something very good!!!
So, as my sweet Charlie boy often says, "Good things come to those who wait"!
Sophie Ruth we are getting ready!!!!!!
Love mommy xoxo