Cousin Emry

Cousin Lilly

Cousin Nakeesha and Aunt Jessica

Silly Jacob

Pretty Easter Dress and Pretty Girl
David at church Ella and Mommy before church


Ella at church

Before church


Eddie, Jacob, and David dying Easter Eggs

We had a busy Easter day.We went to church at 8:30 to have a breakfast and a scavenger hunt. Then church service, on to my mom's house to eat, then on to Eddie's brothers house to eat, then home. So basically from 8am to 8pm we were gone, and stuffed. It was fun but tiring. The weather was cold. It usually is at Easter. We are in for some more snow this weekend. It is suppose to hit tomorrow and go through the weekend and then I think next week is going to be nice again. Crazy weather. hope you all had a great Easter.

Snow Day!!! 2

We woke up to a beautiful snow today. Well I woke up to it ,Eddie has decided to start running in the morning so he was up before it started to snow. It is 10:30 and we have about 4 in. Eddie just went to take Jacob his trombone and they sent Jacob home with him. They had a hard time getting back into the driveway, very slippery!

Here is the swing set we got from someone Eddie use to work for. I don't think we will be playing on it today. (unless we find David's snow pants ) He has been wanting to go outside and play all morning!

These pictures are in backwards order. Here is Jacob sitting at our finished bar in the kitchen.

Eddie's handy work.

He had to move the phone light switch and outlet.

Here's Jacob!!!!

Everyone got in on the demolition of the wall.

I found it a little funny that my last post was a snowy day also. Must be because all my customers cancel and Eddie is home to coral the kids. I like these days!

We have all been a little under the weather but are finally feeling better. Ella probably was the wost:( but she is feeling much better. I am trying to figure out haw to do a slide show, if anyone has an easy way to do that let me know. I tried to do what Gina did in one of her first posts, but it would not let me put it on my blog. Help.

Here you can see where the phone and light switch use to be, oh and a really cute boy.

Let it snow Let it snow Let it snow!!!

Today we woke-up to a wonderful view. SNOW!!! Yea. Ella's official first snow. So far we have about 5 in. and it is still falling. Jacob wanted to stay home from school because they never get a snow day anymore but I made him go :( mean mom I know. Hopefully the snow stays around for the weekend and he can play in it.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. My Aunt Nancy , cousin Brett, and cousin Michael,E.J. and Yuri came to visit. It was really nice to see them all and visit. It was great of them to travel so far.
Well that's about it I just wanted to tell you about the snow! Happy Day!

Adoption Day!

Ella and her Aunt Jessica

Eating out after the big day.

The judge and us.

We had Ella's adoption day in court on Nov. 6th. It is her initial hearing not her finalizing. She has to be with us for 6 months before we can finalize, but we can do her initial and then we don't have to go back down to Denver to finalize. We wanted to go this day because our adoption agency has the day especially marked out for their families to go to court. There were about 27 families there. Some were finalizing their adoptions and others were doing their initial hearing like us. We had a potluck lunch at 12:00 and then the families were called up to go to their court hearing. It was a good day. :) Ella was so good in the court room. She started cooing while the judge talked and asked us questions. David crawled under the table we were sitting at, the judge thought he was so cute and for our picture with her she asked him if she could hold him, he just put up his arms and let her pick him up as if he had known her all the time. So now on January 16 the court will open up our file and sign off on it and send us our papers and Ella will be " official". http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_10924265 this is a article in the Denver Post on the day.

Nov 07 2008 - VID00010

Nov 07 2008 - VID00010

This is a guest blogger for Crystal trying to see if I can add video to her blog. This is a short video of the court date Ella had on Nov. 7th.

Hi ya all! Sorry no pictures for awhile. Our camera broke and we are using my mom's but I cant' get the pictures on my computer. But I guess I can still write. We are all ok. David has a cold possible turning into croup (I think that is how it is spelled) a really bad cough. Ella is getting it I think. She was coughing today and is sleeping alot and has a runny/stuffy nose. Yea fun times! We had a really fun Halloween. Eddie's sisters came over and the kids, also Brian,Jody,Logan and Coy came. We did some trick or treating and then ate chili and pizza,yum. The weather was great. We also toasted marsmellow out side. Later that night we watched STRANGERS. It was a little scary. The part about it being based on a true story is the scary part. Then we went to bed. I know, we live such an exciting life:) Well I have to go Eddie just called and we are heading to the store. I will catch you up more later.