Eddie's uncle Ray passed away last week. He was 66 years old. He had cancer. I don't like that stuff. It takes to many people to soon. He was Eddie's dad's brother. We were not super close with them, but did enjoy going over to their house every once in a while, they lived in Greeley, in the same house for ever. During the viewing the other night they had put together a power point of pictures and music. It was very touching and made me think about family and all the great times we have together that sometimes we just take for granted. We should take as many pictures and video as possible and enjoy every minute of our time with family. Well ,then reality hit and I of course didn't make it through the day without getting upset with Jacob, David and Eddie. I guess that's just life and thank goodness I get to "start over" tomorrow. Our Family has definitely been blessed, Eddie has lost so many Uncles and Cousins. I don't want to have to experience that for a long time. So everyone take care of yourselves:) So that's my week in a nut shell. On a happier note we are number 33 in the adoption pool. We now have to make a video of our family and things we do. We have 45 days to get it done, I think it will be fun to put together. I haven't decided if we will hire someone to do it or try ourselves. Probably try ourselves and then if it turns out to be really lame or something bring in the professional:) So we will see. Hope everyone is doing well. Love all of you lots. Love Crystal

David's Birthday and skateboard crash

David's skateboard scars

David's 2nd Birthday party!
David's hand print in the middle of his cake!
New skates from Jacob WEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the comments! We are doing ok. David had a great birthday. The Sunday before his birthday he was at church playing with a skateboard and fell on it and got scraped up a bit. Just in time for his pictures. I suppose I could have waited to take his 2 year old pictures until he healed up but he was so cute I just had to take him and get them done while he still had the scrapes:) I will be sending his pictures to all of you soon. Here are some that I took before his big day. Ok so the pictures went to the top. I don't know how to get them down here where I want them. Sorry.

Well we probably won't be getting our baby girl. It seem the birth mother has changed her mind. I say seems because we really don't know. Nobody can get a hold of her and she won't return any of the agency's phone calls. We are pretty sad:( It is definitely her choice what she wants to do I just wish she would call and let them know what she decided. I understand wanting to keep your baby. I cant imagine being in a position where I needed to make a choice like that. We are so thankful for are boys and think they are the greatest. We would love to add to our family with a baby girl. God has the right baby for our family and I will just keep trusting him. He knows what's best for us.

Well I don't know if anyone is out there, or if any one reads our blog. I hope so. If you do please leave a little note to let us know. We are still waiting on our baby girl. When I have more time I am going to explain all about our adoption. Until then.........................................................................

Hello! I haven't written in a while. I've just been busy with stuff. David had his 2nd birthday on February 22nd. We went to Chuck E. Cheese with our friends and their baby who will be 1 in March. The adults had fun playing the games. Jacob took a friend so he didn't have to hang with us :) David just ran around mostly. We then had a family birthday party at our house on Sunday. David decided that his cake was not cool enough so he put his hand print in it! We ate around that part! He got lots of fun things. One of his favorite things was a baby stroller with a baby that he can push around. Grandma Joan got that for him. He would not open any more presents after opening that one. He just pushed that baby around the rest of the time,well until Jacob opened his roller skates he got David and put them on him and we went outside. It was a fun day. I will have to post pictures later. I only have like 20 min. to sit and write until my next customer comes. Oh and p.s. There may be a baby girl being added to our family in the very near future! I will write more on that subject soon! Love you all. Crystal

2008 A new year begins! We had a very nice Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas Day, Eddies family came over to our house and spent the day. Very busy that day but very fun. Lots of kids and running around:) David liked his cousins shopping cart the best and we had to run interference between Emry who is 4 and David. Sharing is not in their vocabulary:) Christmas Day just seems to go by to fast and now January is almost over! Jacob got a motorcycle for Christmas and finally got to ride it last weekend YEA! David is happy with just about anything, especially if it makes noise or you can make noise with it, like banging it on something:) Well I have run out of things to say without boring you to much. Have a good day:) P.S. yes Jacob is in the kitchen on his dirt bike. It was to cold outside. No, I did not let him ride it around the living room!

Christmas Tree

We Have been going to Christmas Tree Acres to get our Christmas tree for about 13 years. It is a place outside of LaSalle. You can go their and walk through the many trees to pick out the perfect one and cut it down. We always have a really fun time. We found a hay bale so Jacob and David jumped off it. The weather was pretty nice that day. Today we have about 6-7 inches of snow and it is still snowing! Yea! We were wondering if it was ever going to feel like winter. Just last week we had weather in the 70's.

crazy!

This is a video I took at church. David loves music. He was dancing to the music that was playing after church. I had just finished taking Jacob and Davids picture for our Christmas cards and he started dancing. He's so cute:) Don't you agree?