National Adoption Month

Did you know November is National Adoption Month?

I am certainly grateful for the blessing of adoption.  It was the selfless sacrifice of our birthmother and the tireless effort of our caseworkers that brought us our miracle x2.

Ha! Now look at them:

Our agency contacted us about a month ago.  They were just trying to network and gather more adoptive families.  They actually had several birthmothers who needed to place quickly--and not enough families to show them.  While we are not quite ready to take the leap again ourselves, it did start the conversation between Dan and me.  Once the twins get just a little bit older, we are going to begin the adoption process again.  I can't help but feel someone is still waiting to join us.  And thanks to the miracle of adoption, we will be able to complete our family.

Here is the link to our entire adoption story.

Happy Halloween!

Even if Halloween was on a Sunday this year, we managed to get our fill of festivities this Halloween.  I hope you had as much fun as we did.

Karate

Here is our new after-school activity.  After 5 classes, he loves it.  I hope it is something that he really sticks with.

Halloween Pumpkins

Still some Halloween stuff--pumpkins.  First, my only other creative Halloween decoration this year.  I have some big candlesticks on my mantle that we covered in spider webs.  Then it suddenly dawned on me one day, pumpkins.  So I got three little pumpkins and replaced my candles with them.

Then, we have some carved pumpkins.  Our neighbors host a pumpkin carving party each year; this year it was last weekend.  Tyler wanted to do a werewolf; we found this wolf howling at the moon online.

And here is everyone's pumpkins all line up outside.  Did you notice I had to set my camera on the grass to keep it still enough?  Kind of a fun and different angle.

We are going to have to carve another pumpkin closer to Halloween.  Our poor wolf is covered in mold and already taken to the trash today.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Decor

While I haven't posted on my blog in a long time, I have certainly still been reading blogs.  I saw this idea on one of my favorite decor/crafty blogs.  She simply spray painted sticks and stuck them in a container.  So when I was driving down my street and saw my neighbors' tree getting cut down, I ran over and stole a few branches.  Ok, I asked the tree cutters first if I could take them, and after they looked at me oddly, they said yes.

I loved the way this simple, easy, and thrifty idea turned out. 

For grandma and grandpa

I am back with a fully functioning laptop!!
And because my parents have missed their grandchildren fix, I will now attempt to to remedy that.

Eating spaghetti for the first time:

This is Carter demonstrating the proper way to hold a taggie:

Carter sporting his new haircut:

Tyler's lost tooth:

And the boys playing in the back of Dad's new truck:

I'll be back soon.

I discovered that I missed blogging.  I have really missed my laptop, but I will be getting it back this weekend.  Hallelujah.  I have still been taking photos, and trying to get better shots.  I have been doing projects and getting ready for Halloween.  I have a list of  future blog posts, so hopefully I will be back soon with a vengeance.

I will leave you with some bath pictures.  All three boys had a bubble bath in my big tub.  Some liked it better than others.