and then we were one....

What a wonderful day today! The emotions we felt are still raw, I think Chris cried more than I did. The kids were excellent and excited! Maggie was feeling a little under the weather but she was a trooper, not much for being Miss smiles for the camera but she was well behaved.

It is final...they are ours forever! We will raise them with love, trust, faith and most importantly we will instill the importance of a family bond. This bond will never be broken!!! Our kids come first and no one or no thing will change that EVER!!!!!!

I got in touch with the kids first foster family and they were able to come out and be apart of our special day. The kids and the foster parents were so happy to see each other. We decided to keep in touch and keep them apart of our kids lives, they lived with this family for 2 years. We also invited the 2nd foster family but they were busy but that is ok. Today was our day and it was wonderful!

November 21st, 2009

IT IS CONFIRMED AND WE FINALIZE SATURDAY THE 21ST AT 10:30 AM. WE WILL BE OFFICIAL AND THEY WILL BE STUCK WITH OUR LAST NAME FOREVER (HEHE) MAN I LOVE THOSE KIDS SO MUCH!!!!!!

Wildlife animal park

The kids had a blast and we did to. Looking forward to going again while the weather is nice. We were there almost 4 hours and the kids did so well. I took alot of pictures (uploaded to facebook)Maggie went right to sleep tonight but Jesse is having a hard time because of all the excitement today. He keeps thinking about all the fun he had so his little mind is still spinning. I give him 20 min tops and he will unwind...goodnight all

birthday pics

I forgot to post these

Jesse on his 6th birthday with his new bike

Maggie on her 3rd birthday with her tonka (tomboy) lol

movie night

tonight we are having moving night- well me and the kids are

anyone see UP??

To vaccinate or not

Jesse's school is offering free vaccinations for H1N1...

I am on the fence with this and have not decided yet.

I hope you all have a great weekend, we are planning to take the kids to the zoo on Sunday, the kids are excited...I am to, I love the zoo

hello peeps

I am so lucky to have such a great husband who is so talented and reliable! He scored on a job to help design and build an in door skate park recently and he was not even planning on it. Our garage looks like a wood shop right now because Chris is cutting the wood here at the house for all the transitions for the park. He got to work with the guy and re design the park a bit so it is looking pretty neat on paper and it will be exciting to see the finished product. Chris has built alot of parks but they were concrete parks, he is a wood guy and it is an art form for him.
I also found out that my parents were offered a job to manage a place about 1 1/2 from us!! Right now they are in Missouri and miserable! My parents are wanting so bad to have a close relationship with Jesse and Maggie so this is such an answered prayer for our whole family. I know if my parents move then my sister and little brother will to and we can all be close again and spend quality family time together like we use to! My little bother and his fiance are going to have a baby in March, it will be so good to have everyone in 1 area

Prayer works, God is awesome!!!

oh and the kids are excellent and looks like we will finalize still this month!!

goodbye Halloween 2009

the kids had fun

she's out to get us..

my 3 year old I mean haha


The other day Maggie brought out about 20 books and made a book walkway. Before dinner we reminded her it was time to clean up and put away toys...

(Maggie) "I not do that mess"!!! I not pick up anything it is to much!!!

(Dad) Maggie you need to pick up all your books

(Maggie) NO!!

(Dad) Maggie, I'm going to count to 3...

(Maggie) 123...Piggy did it

(Mom) Maggie, in your room now!!

(Maggie) I don't want to!!!

(Mom) 1...2...

(Maggie) cries and lays on her bed

(Dad) 5 minutes later...Maggie are you going to pick up your books now?

(Maggie) fake cries...NO I NOT

she comes out for dinner and after dinner we offer her 1 more chance to pick up books, she still refuses so we take all her books away and "call Santa"

(Santa) Maggie are you being a good girl and listening to your parents?

(Maggie) I not put books away...piggy will do it tomorrow but I still a good girl

haha yikes she is only 3

what do you think it is Jesse?

My son just cracks me up with his little witty mouth!

For his birthday we bought him a bike and this cool interactive dragon castle thing. The bike we gave him on Tues (his birthday) and the castle we are waiting to give him tonight at his party. This morning when we were leaving the house he spotted his wrapped present on the kitchen table...he stops and says oh my gosh is that for me???

I said it sure is...what do you think it is?

He taps his little finger on his temple and in all seriousness jumps up and shouts......



CONCRETE!!!!!!

I could not stop laughing, then he says you know what mom..I don't care what it is, I will be happy with whatever I get.

I can honestly say he is right...even if it were concrete he would be happy =)

Happy Birthday Jesse

We love you more than you could ever imagine!


My boy is six today, we are having his party on Friday night. Chris is out getting a pinata and his new bike right now. Jesse is so excited about this birthday party because he has friends coming. Alot of our friends have kids and most of them are also skateboarders or wives/girlfriends of skaters. All of our close friends are very "family first" so we all do events and such as families. I love the people we surround ourselves with. Friends with morals and family values... friends who take pride in family and put their kids first.

whew...maybe

Looks like they will be able to list father as "John Doe" so we can still finalize on National Adoption Day 2009...don't know all the details but our lawyer is doing some data search which will hopefully clear everything up.

I will update when I know more

I called the kids birth grandparents today and left a message. I want to meet them. I want to keep that door open, I don't care to have a relationship but I just want know where my kids came from. Who knows if I will get a call back but ya know what? I made the effort and that is all I can do