It been 2 years from Anna's adoption in Dec. of 2006 Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.

Wow , I can't believe it been 2 years now. After bring our little girl home. Anna is 4 years old now. She is doing really will. Anna is growing up so fast on us. We still have trouble getting like Jeans to fit her. Tops are ok. Anna is her 2nd year of preschool and doing really will. She will be in a Christmas play at school to with her brother. Also we signed her up in cheerleading this month. I hope she will like it and do well with it. We shall see. Nicholas is in basketball. We have them in the Upwards game. Nicholas was in the Soccer and we like it lot. After Christmas I will try and get pictures on the blog before I go into the hosptail for the open heart. I don't know how long I will be in. We went to Anna Cheerleading meeting last night to meet the everyone;they had them go up on the stage. Anna was doing the cheer. Then later she was looking at all the girls and then she started moving her arms around like them it was so cute. Hope everyone have a great Christmas and Happy New Year.

Here are some pictures of My Neices playing the role of Bell in the Youth Theater.

My neice playing the role of Bell in the Beauty and the Best. At a Youth Theatre here in town. Were we live they have plays for the youth to tryout and in the plays. They do a great job of doing it too. My Brother-N-Law made this for the play.

I have had a lot on mine mind , things has come up.

Hello everyone, I am sorry that I have not posted any pictures yet. I have had lot of stuff going on. The kiddos are doing pretty good. Our school has started here back in Aug and now the kidds are on fall break for a week. Nicholas did pretty good on the first day off on fall break. The next day we had trouble again. Anna is doing pretty good. She had just turned 4 years on Oct 3rd so we had a birthday party for her on Sunday with our family.Anna got a lot of toys,colthes, some money too for her birthday. Caitlyn came in from college for the weekend. I told you all it has been crazy around here back in the summer and now. Still is , it has not slowed down yet. Back in July I had a strest test done on me again. It was not good. I had too many of the PC that they call them. I am not good with Medcail stuff. The heart drs wanted me to have a catherzation done on me. We set up an appt to talk to them about it and the next day I had it done. They did three test on me with the catherzation for heart. Checked back of my heart with a camera, elctor testing and the reg. catherzation test of it. That was done all in one day. I have to have a right value replace. It is leaking to much that what it should be. I was born with heart problem and had it fixed onces, and now they are saying that now that I am older it needs to be done. I really don't want to have this done but I guess I have too. We will be talking with someone about on the 24th of this month to see what they will do and how long it will take for recover from it. I have a lot of planing to do from now until they tell me when to do. I don't wish this upon no one. We will keep you posted on what is going on from time to time.

Sept Getway for the weekend at Barren Hights

sHello everyone. This is going to be a little different posting. Chris and I and the kiddos heard about this place down around Barren Lake. Its called Barren Hights Retreat. Its for families that has children with special needs. This was a great weekend for both Chris and I also for the our children. We got to meet new families and volunteer's that helped with the children that were there. Chris got to talk with the men and then I got to spend some time with other ladies. Then Chris and I got to spend sometime together that we really need to talk to each other. It helped out lot. Anna and Nicholas got to meet new boys and girls and they had fun. Nicholas has told me something that I thought I would never hear him say to me. He said that he will be nice to me now. I hope it stay that away. Sunday he was pretty good coming home and Monday and Tuesday he was good to me. I hope this has helped him out allot. They got to play out in the rain on Friday night. Then we did thing that was plane for us and they had a great time do it. I think that if we could we would go back again. I do feel little better than what I did before we left for the Retreat. Someone had told me about this when Nicholas was taking swimming lesson. I am glad that we checked into it. It was great to just talk to anothers adults. I think God new what we need and when to go. If you and your family are stressing out and don't know what to do this is great. I did not know about this place at all. I would like to say thank you to the lady that had told me about this. I did not get her name at all. I guess I better get off right now. I need to go and finish Nicholas up and I will add more to this post.

Summer almost over with.

Hi everyone , I can't believe that summer is almost over with. Nicholas just started back to school already this past week. Then Anna will start this coming week for preschool. Nicholas has done pretty good about getting up in the morning to get the bus so early in the morning. I am trying to get back into getting up early now. After sleeping in late for long time. This summer has gone bay so fast. We have had Thurdner Over Louisville, Kentucky Derby,and the Parda. July 4th, and then we just had our home town Parada today. Nicholas and Anna had fun get the Candy.Also I had put Anna in a baby contest Friday night. She did not place anyting. She is pretty in my eyes. I will try and get some pictures on the blog. Anna will be getting on the bus all by herself this year... Nicholas is riding the big kids bus now. So I don't know how she will do by getting the busy with out him now. She is getting to where that when I leave her somewhere she is starting crying for me. Like in the church nuresry. I have to give her a kiss and just leave. We are getting ready to change the helper in the nuresry too. So I want be up there as much this coming year. Anna is doing really well. She is talking more to us. But when other people trying to talk to her first she turns her head to me. My class is going to have a reuion coming up in Sept. Our 20th.I wont be able to make. I will be having some test done on me again and I wont know for sure if they will be keeping me over night. It will be Catherzation testing.

It has been crazy around here . Sorry that I haven't posted until now.

I hope everyone doing good. Like I said it has been so crazy around here. We have been taking my son too the Dr. to help with the behavior and everything. Swimming, artclass to keep him busy this summer. Then I have been to the Dr. too. Anna has been doing really will. She is talking more now. We took her for the first to Hoilday World. She loved. I will try and post pictures on the blog later on when they are in school. . This is just a short post. Just wanted to update a little. We are trying to get ready to go on a trip to for few days. Everyone take care. And Have a great Summer. Our Kiddos will be going to school soon. Our son will be going every day now. Instead of half day like he was in Preschool. Anna will be going back to preschool this year too. That will help her with Nicholas being in different part of the school building. And a different bus too. I better get off of here.

It has been crazy around here for past months.

I hope everyone is doing all right. Anna and Nicholas is out of school now. They got out before the older children did. When they got out we had a preschool gradaution for both of them. Nicholas is going on. We also had two preschool meeting on the for both of them her at the house for the last year meeting. We have just been going to artclass on Tuesday now for Nicholas. I think he really like it alot. And we have him in riding horse now. Soccer is over with now. We tried Anna with art but she would not set down long for it. This last weekend of May we had a lot going on. We had a death in the family;my Brother-n-low's Mom passway.They lady her to rest on Friday afternoon. Then Friday evening my youngest Nice Gradauted from High school, on Saturday we had a dinner for her and a friend from church that gradauted too. It was almost nonstop around here. My brother came up from GA for the gradaution. I am glad that he came up for that. I do have picture I am going to put up. I guess this month will go bye fast too. We have lot of thing going on already. Our Anna and Nicholas will go to VBS this month. One weekend we will be going to Cincinnati. When thing gets clam down I will try and put pictures up on the on the blog.

Thunder over Louisville weekend. Airshow and fireworks.

Hello, I said I would try and post let you all know what happen at Thurnder over Louisville, We got up early That Saturday then we went and picked up my nices and her boyfriend. Everybody was doing good until we got half way up to Louisville. Anna got sick on us going up there. She cryed all morning waiting for our room. Then got in the room she was still crying and carring on. Nicholas was not listening at all. Anyway I had chris take both kidds home so we would not get kick out of the room where we was staying at. My nice ,her boyfriend, and I stayed. I did not want to spoil their fun. We were on the 15th floor and had a great view. It was so cold and it rain that night after the fireworks. When I get the pictures from my nice I will post them. I have some on my phone but it will not send to the computer I don't .

It that time of year again. Thurnder over Louisville and the Kentucky derby.

It that time again. How time flies by so fast. We plane on going to Thurnder over Louisville this year. We missed it last year. Anna gets to go to see the fireworks. We shall see how she does with them. We also have a room too for it. They are talking about bad weather this weekend again. I hope it does not get to bad. Saturday should be in the 50s. I will try and poat some over the week of the the weekend what she does. Have a great weekend.

Anna birthday cake.

My sister did her birthday cake for us. She does alot cakes for people. She does weddings,birthday for family and friends. She does a really great job at it. I have tried it and my flowers does not come out right all. Anna enjoyed the cake. Also the bike she got it for birthday.I hope she starts riding it soon. Shes like Nicholas for while where he was pushing it all the time. She is doing it right now pushing the bike around. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next one she was waiting for the bus the first day of school for her. She was all ready for it. I wasn't really ready for it but she needed to go. She has done really well with school and the bus this year.

Got them on ...

Got the pictures put on fianly. They are out of order but it will do.

Here are some pictures I was going to put on the blog .

Sorry that these are late.

Happy Easter too everyone. Jesuse Loves Us so much he died on the cross for us.

Happy Easter to everyone. We are all doing fine now. Like I said in the other posting I was sick. I am almost over it. There is still a coughing every so often but not like it was in the first two months. This past week we had a lot of snow. The kidds went out with Chris some and then I took him when.

What two months we have had around here.

Hello everyone, I hope this finds everyone fine. It has been really crazy around here. Around the end of Jan we had really bad storms around here. Torondano, ice, snow, and wind. Tuesday night around 1:00 we had bad storms that came in on us at 1:00 in the morning. I stayed up to watch the weather because they kept talking about coming this way. We had the first storm come in and it was not that bad. Then the 2nd around was the worst on of them. I got the kiddos back up from bed and headed downstairs. I was trying to get Chris up and he was sound asleep.. I did get him up. When he heard me he said he heard the wind and it sound like a train come in. I was yelling at him so. Then right after that our light went out. And I mean out it was out for 3 days. Alot of home got hit around here and some of them our church members. Then after all of this then I got sick again with Bronictas. I still have it too. Right now just trying to get rid of the coughing. They are talking about more snow for us some time this week and then will be warming up. Nicholas has had a cold too. He is finally getting over his.

I'm sorry it taken a long time to post.

We are all doing pretty goog. We have been sick this past month and also I had a root cancal done. They had put me to sleep for that. This was my first one and I was for sure if I could not had handle it with my Astma. Now I will get a crown put on it this weekend. Both of the kids have been sick and I have too. They are doing better now. Anna is doing really well she has picked up some weight now. She weighs 20lb now. Anna is getting in cloths like 18 and 24 months now. Her words are dong better to each day with going to preschool and with church too. She is sing her ABC , almost counting and she trying to say the days of the week. We have to help her more on the days of the week. She is also working about going to the bathroom too. Better than our son had done. She has done the number 2 on the potty.Yeah..... I will get more picture on later. We have been trying to get the basement ready for someone to come and work on it for us. I can't wait to get it done and over with. Everyone take care . We are thinking about the families that are over Ukraine that are adopting and ones for that are waiting for the news. Everyone take care and God bless you and your families.

This blog is to Help family that are thinking about adoption.

Hi everyone, I have had a few things on the blog that has come up.Where it does not talking about our adoption or about anyone thinking about adopting. One comments was something off the wall. And also the other one was like a sale of something. They were acting like they have meet me and everything. Please leave thing like that off of the comments. So you will not wast space for other families that would like to leave comments about adoption. There are families out there that would like to know how other families adoption went for them. Where they can kind of have an idea to what they will go threw.