A GREAT flick!!

I'm not sure whether guys would like this show, but I loved it. Rented "August Rush" tonight and it just made me cry. I'm not sure if I'm just a bawl baby, a wimp or just emotionally exhausted. I thought it was just an excellent movie. Oh well it doesn't really matter anyway. I just wanted to recommend it to people who haven't seen it.

On another note, Scott and I cleaned out our soft sided swimming pool. Talk about disgusting! We turned the filter off a few weeks ago when the interest in it started dwindling and since that time the bottom turned an ugly shade of green-brown. I don't want to know what that stuff was other than algae, but there were GIANT dead bugs of all kind. Huge bumblebees, dragonflies, water skeeters, grasshoppers and who knows what else inhabited that water. Ewwww. Needless to say I am not going to be happy about putting that up next year for the kiddo. Maybe she won't remember next summer...yeah right. Scott came in the house with an outline on his leg of green goo. Yes gross I know.

I just found out that some local China waiting mom's are getting together soon for lunch. I can't wait to see everyone and catch up. I hope a lot of people show up. It should be soooo fun.
I'm off to bed as it's midnight and I'm having to think twice about what I'm saying and writing.

A Fishin' we will go

Labor Day weekend we went up to Grampa's Cabin for some semi-campin' and fishin' fun. Once we got all the cousins their together they had a blast. With all cousins included we had 7 kids under the age of 12. Lyssie Lou, Haley and Carly always have fun together while Jackson, Dylan and Garret play like champs. Avery, the littlest gets along with everyone especially because the older girl cousins love to play mommy with her. She, of course is the perfect baby!! A great time was had by all.

The kids rode 4 wheelers, played in the sand, took walks and went fishin. The following pic is with some of the cousins in the boat with uncle Cary and Grampa. The boat was full to the gills.


On another note...I just found out that a friend dear to my heart received an answer to prayer and was able to bring her baby girl home. I am so happy for my friend. Her daughter is beautiful and she reminds me of why I still wait for Emma. Congratulations!!

Gettin into it!

So I'm going to hurry and post for August 26th's question so I can be right on target. The question for the week is:

This week, for posterity's sake, share with us a school memory from your own childhood.
What is your earliest memory of school, what did you love about the first week of school, who was your favorite teacher, subject, or playground game?

My earliest memory of school is pre-school. I have some vague memories of bubbles floating up in the air and painting, but my firm memory is that I had days-of-the-week undies. I remember using the potty and pulling down 2 or 3 days worth of undies. The teacher asked me why I had donned so much protection that day and I remember answering that I wasn't quite sure what day of the week it was so better safe than sorry. My favorite subject was definitely English or science. 4 square or teatherball were my fav's and I have to admit I was hard to beat.

On a personal note...those of you who are following along with our Chinese adoption we have a bit of bad news. New this year the Hague (a governing body in adoption) has specific requirments that now must be met in order for an agency to handle your adoption. Our agency despite being so good was turned down for Hague Accreditation. They are reapplying after a few minor adjustments and we hope they are approved this time. We are asking for your prayers to join with ours in hopes that this will happen for our agency.

What this means is if our agency does not gain accreditation, then they might not be able to handle our dossier if it expires again before we are referred a baby. There might be a stipulation wherein all the agencies previous clients would be grandfathered in. We are hoping for this. If this were to occur we would hope to be referred a baby by 8/19/09 which is when we would need our dossier updated.

We are hoping that all who know us will keep this in their thoughts and prayers. Thank You to all who have shared in this journey with us thus far. You honestly don't understand how much it means to us.

A renewal of effort

Okay I know that I have been really lazy in posting this summer...not that we sat around, just that I didn't feel like blogging. I came across this new blog through my sister's blog "The Cozarts". It is call Tuesday Tell All. I don't know why it is called that because it seems like they post a question every Friday. It is kind of a Q & A. I think these questions will give me some motivation to post at least every week.

Their question of Friday August 15th was: What are your families back to school traditions?

My answer is that we don't have many but we always go school shopping for new clothes, new folders, pencilboxes, pencils and pens...things like that. I am not sure if we will continue this into a tradition, but this year we got Alyssa a pedicure and polish. Boy did she loooovvve that!!!

4th of July Celebration

This year we spent the 4th seeing the "Stadium of Fire." This show included military tributes, the Blue Man Group and Miley Cyrus. Lyssie Lou had a great time. She sang and danced, she totally immersed herself in the music of her teenage idol.

Splish Splash we were takin' a bath

Lyssie Lou and a few friends trying to beat the summer heat!!

Thanksgiving Point Discovery Gardens um..um..fun

The Kids had fun this past week at Thanksgiving Point's Discovery Gardens.

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Where will our next adventure lead?