Wedding Pictures

Saturday Chase and I were in a Wedding for a friend of mine from work.  Chase did such an awesome job!  The ceremony was a bit to long for him and I could see him stretching his legs and arms.  His favorite part was riding in a limo to the reception.

Chase my handsome little man

The bride Jennifer

Chase & Mommy

The Newly Wed couple

The kids all dressed up for the wedding

Chase & I in the Limo

Conor & Zoe at the reception

Conor & Parker

Zoe's Gotcha Video

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Zoe's many faces!

Here's a cute little video of Zoe showing us what sad, mad and happy looks like!

Our 13th Anniversary

Yes we got married young.  Very young, I was 19 and he was 20.   But I wouldn't change it for anything in the world.  We celebrated by going out to a movie and then dinner.  Not much, but alone time is scarce so we take what we can get. 

Rounding up the kids to go to grandma's

My mom ready for the kids!

Our picture before heading out

The movie we went to see ( maybe not the best choice for an evening out)

I couldn't go without popcorn

Although we weren't too hungry after eating popcorn we still had room for @pplebee's

Me & Steve 13 years ago

I LOVE YOU STEVE!

Happy 9 month Gotcha day Anniversary Zoe

She has grown so much and has come so far.  I thought I would share a few pictures from China, so that you can see the difference.

Gotcha day

She still can give these looks

Adoption day hanging on to baba

Zoe  9 months later!

Golfing with Chase

Today was Chase's day for some special one on one time and he  choose to golf.  I  posted some cute videos of him.  He either has me laughing or yelling that boy!  On the way home he kept clicking his toy gun and I asked him to stop several times, the last time I said " One more time and it goes out the window", his reply to that was " Well mom that would be litering and then a cop would come get you", I never win with this guy!

Happy 4th Birthday Kayli!

We celebrated with Kayli today on her 4th birthday.  We met the Blake's at the very start of our journey, just after we were logged into China.  They adopted Kayli back in March of 2008 from China and were a great resource for us while we waited.   We have become good friends and the girls love getting together.  Here are some cute pictures from today.

Getting ready with curlers in her hair

Kaylie, Chase, & Zoe

The cute cakes

My little Prince

I love her curly hair

My little Princess Belle

Precious

Kayli and her Mom Debbie

Playing Dress up

Zoe & Chase are going to a Princess Party tomorrow.  So tonight they had to model what their wearing to the party tomorrow.   Zoe's dressed as Belle and Chase's is wearing his tux.

Hopefully she'll let me get some better pictures tomorrow without her hands on her face.

Steve's summer project

Every summer my husband needs an outside project to occupy his time.  This summer he wanted to build a shed and not just any shed a 192 sq ft shed.   I can't say that I didn't have my doubts, he's never built a structure this big before.  But I have to say I'm pretty dang proud of him.  It's almost complete, it just needs siding and some paint and some detail work, but he got a lot done in his little amount of time he gets to work on it.   Our little three day trip with my mom down south gave him time to get the roofing all done.

Here's some pictures of the shed so far.

The inside

Redwoods

Today we took a long walk in the Redwood forest in Northern California.  I love the Redwoods, this was one of my favorite places to go when I was little and today I got to share it with the kids.

The kids with both Grandmas

The kids and their poses

She thought she was holding it up

The awesome Redwoods

River rock creations

Chase trying to find shells

Zoe loving the sand

My day ended with a bang, two houses from being back at my in laws a guy weed eating flung a rock through my drivers side window. It scared me to death I thought we were being shot at.

Safari trip

Yesterday we had a fun day driving through a Safari! Here's some pictures from the day.  The kids even rode a camel.

A camel ride