Happy 10 Years Old

This is both a birthday and an anniversary. Katie is 10 years old! We have had a big and fun birthday celebration. We waited until today to celebrate (Sunday) as her birthday was 19 July (Friday) because Daniel and Andrew have been away on a missions trip. The anniversary part is that it was also 5 years ago that we left for Ukraine on 19 July to adopt Katie and Emie. Katie has now lived half her life with us. We are thankful for her parents and very thankful that they have allowed us to adopt her. We are so thankful for Katie and for all the life, energy and joy that she brings. One of her favorite wake up sayings has been and continues to be "sunny day". With Katie, every day is a sunny day and her joy for life is a constant reminder of needing to look for the good. In case it wasn't obvious - this was a Scooby Doo themed day for Katie. One of her favorite cartoons to watch with her buddy Pepper is Scooby Doo. We love our Katie! and want to share some photos with you from her birthday party today.

Spring Time Fun

We have been bad at posting lately. We had a email from Katies mom and dad recently and they look at the blog regularly; so we will try and do a better job of posting pictures - sorry we have not been good. We will also try and post a picture of katie that you can see how much she has grown! She just finished second grade this year and worked very hard. She did well and is learning letters, numbers and many other things in school. In one picture taken about one month ago - Katie is flying a kite. She likes to fly kites.

Many faces of Katie

Katie has recently lost another tooth. This is a series of pictures taken before bedtime, just trying to get a photo of her new missing tooth. She has so many faces - many of them funny - just trying to get that 'one' photo.

March is for Birthdays

We start with David - aka Pepper. We celebrated David's sixth birthday with nana and poppa S. David opted for a yummy ice cream and strawberry cake and had his friend Sam D over for gift opening on Saturday morning.

Wedding

Katie, Emie and Annie love weddings - especially Annie. We were all in our wedding finery for the wedding of a friend of ours from North Dakota. Hope you enjoy the photos.

Tea Party

The girls enjoyed a tea party the other night. Kasie (our PCA) was here and she had them bathed and all ready for bed - about 5 pm; so the girls took out their tea party supplies and had a nice little supper using about 350 dishes! David got to join too.

Gingerbread Houses

An annual tradition at our house it to make gingerbread houses; this year also included the triplets next door and later in the afternoon another neighbor friend of Davids' so in all - I think a dozen houses were made. The photos are included below.