Thanksgiving

Thankful to have sweet moments with grandparents

Thankful for new cousins

Adam runs his first race since high school ( The Flying Feather 4 miler)

Thankful for new Thanksgiving traditions

Thankful for the miracle of a little girl brought home safely

Thankful for Christ & our eternal salvation
Phillippians 4: 6-7 " Do not be anxious for anything, but in every situation, by prayer & petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God, and the peace of God , which trancends all understanding, will guard your hearts & your minds in Christ Jesus . "

Friends

Since the weather has turned colder we have moved our Haiti play dates inside at McDonalds. The girl's had a BLAST. The best part was that they were able to play along with all their sibs too while the mom's ( & Adam :) got to chat. I am so thankful to have this group to connect with here locally. It is awesome ! Thank you Lord for blessing us with more friends . Thank you for bringing these girls home safely into loving families where they are sure to have their bellies filled on Thanksgiving.

The whole gang & their sibs

Graceyn

Vania & Jo Jo

Emma

Yarn Braids

Beaded beauty

ponytails

Vania falls asleep on the side of the tub after the long process of removing the yarn extensions :)

back to natural

Well, I have to say I loved the yarn extensions. They lasted about 2 1/2 weeks. Easy to take care of, versatile with styling & easy to keep all the "stuff " out of her hair. The last week I trimmed up the yarn to her shoulders and added beads. She loved flipping her hair back & forth to make noise with her beads :) We probably could have gone for a third week , but I wanted to get a trim in before Thanksgiving and knew it would not hold up that long with all the flipping & wrestling etc . that a three year old likes to do :) I also don't think it would be a good style for summer with all the dirt, sweat & swimming. Maybe we'll try it again in spring. Hopefully her hair will grow a lot over the winter so we can just have all natural longer braids.

Bambi

Bug Lady

Zane holding a preying mantis

This is actually only the exoskeleton of a tarantula. Oh yeah, she brought a live one too !

The infamous hissing cockroach
(according to the bug lady, a great pet)

Vania is a very brave little girl ! The home school co -op had a pets class & invited the " bug lady" to visit. She had all sorts of interesting creepy crawly critters. And where was Miss V? Well , right beside the bug lady of course. Zane enjoyed them too . He was there to take pictures for his Current Events project. It was fun watching all the little eyes getting as big as saucers and the squeals every time the bug lady pulled a new bug out to show them. She will have to kill spiders for daddy in mommy's absence :)

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Bambi

Trick Or Treat

" WAIT FOR ME !!"

Zane helped a friend of ours in her scary porch theme. He is the scary clown.
No pics of Zoe . She was off with her friends this year.

My little Vamp Carson !

Waiting impatiently for trick or treat to start

Miss V & her first jack o lantern

Well, we are a little hung over this morning from Trick Or Treat :) I'm working on my second cup of coffee trying to get through the last day of a very busy week. Vania woke up this morning and couldn't get the words " where is my candy ?" out of her mouth fast enough ! I'm the mean mom who made her have breakfast before she plunged into her candy. I've already had to cut her off until after lunch :)

Vania had a great time trick or treating. Daddy pushed princess V around in her stroller house to house. Every time we stopped Carson & Vania would race to the door to be first. Carson was very good to help her navigate her way through the crowds & then you would hear her squeal " WAIT FOR ME !!!" as she ran down the driveway back to her carriage. Adam & I were cracking up . As if pushing her highness around wasn't enough , when we stopped Adam would say "if you want candy you have to get up & go get it." Vania would huff in disgust ,pop out of the stroller & retort "GOSH dad !" Such a DIVA :)

Inspired by my fellow adoptive parents I put yarn extensions in Vania's hair. It was a LONG process ( about 6 hours ). If I do it again I think we will break it up into 2 days.I think it turned out really cute & great for her princess costume. It makes her look about 5 years old. Hopefully the 6 hours of work will pay off & the extensions will last for awhile. By then I'm sure we will be ready for something different. I just love all the fun stuff you can do with her hair !!!!

One quick story. As we were 5 1/2 hours into the extension process. Zoe & Carson were also playing with yarn making bracelets. So we were passing the scissors around. All of a sudden I hear SNIP SNIP. I look down & two braids lay on Vania's highchair tray. Yes, Vania had gotten a hold of the scissors. I could've passed out at that point. Luckily , since they were bangs I was able to just trim them a little higher. The thought of having to take them out & re-do 2 more braids at this point was enough to make me crazy.

Happy Halloween everybody !!!!!!!
Bambi

Fall Fun

The kids were all off school yesterday so we took a trip to Pigeon Roost farm for some fall fun.Vania has been asking everyday when we are "going to Halloween ". I keep forgetting this is all new to her. Pumpkins, hay, all the fall decorations. Whispers of trick or treat. It is fun to watch her excitement. For the last week I have had her hair in puffs with little Halloween rubber bands. She kept telling everyone that Halloween was in her hair :) This week we went with the orange & black beads to kept the Halloween theme going. So much fun ! Here are some of our pics ....