C.C.’s blog

Cuteness alert!

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:02:42 -0400

Honestly, could there be anything cuter?! We were able to meet up with friends and go trick or treating together......too fun!! So, above you see from left to right: Henry the skunk, Kylie the bee, Darby the surgeon and Caleb the tree frog.

Now THAT is one cute skunk!!

My sweet little surgeon:-)

Darby and Kylie, after their lucrative night of trick or treating, checking out the loot! Are they not the sweetest?!

It’s the great pumpkins

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:52:30 -0400

We were a little behind this year. We didn’t carve our pumpkins until the day before Halloween. It was kinda fun though. Might do it that way from now on.

I had a pumpkin to carve and ....

Stephen had one to carve.

The kids used sharpies and drew on the smaller ones. Yep, those markers really are permanent;-)

“Look Henry, I think you can blow on these,” Darby says.
Henry replies, “Phwoooooooooooooh.”

Oops, gotta have a family pic

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:01:23 -0400

Last night was the last social worker visit to finish up our requirements for Henry’s adoption....YAY! One of the requirements is for us to send a photo page to China for the officials to see how Henry is doing. And, one of the required pictures was a picture of the whole family. Can you believe that we didn’t have one single picture of our entire family since the 6 month visit back in March?! So, we had to come up with one, and quick! The one above is the one that went to China.

Here are the out-takes.

I love my family.

At the park with friends

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:45:58 -0400

Is that not the cutest picture?! Kylie was pushing Henry and he was loving it!

Look at my little monkey climbing right behind his sister. Darby is his hero. He does absolutely everything she does. So sweet:-)

Henry is braving the big slide!

Man, I would love to know what they were talking about.

Let us swing!!

The boys taking the girls for a ride.

My baby girl is tired.

Going to the chapel......

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:23:07 -0400

We had the distinct honor of attending the wedding of the 2 people who were our guides when we were in China getting Darby.

They were legally married in China a few years ago, but didn’t have a big elaborate wedding. Our adoption agency threw them a beautiful wedding in the D.C. area. The kids and I headed out while Stephen was still in Haiti.

Above is Amy walking down the aisle. Her bouquet was put together by the beautiful children that she “delivered” to their parents.

Darby ready to give Amy a rose and Henry standing in the aisle. He’s a mess, but he’s a cute mess:-)

Here is Darby giving Amy a rose for her wedding bouquet.

Amy and Lineker exchanging vows.

At the end of the ceremony, we families that have been touched by Amy and Lineker were given an opportunity to share gratitude and love. Amy was in my “deliver room” standing right beside me when Darby was placed in my arms. She will always have a special place in our family story.

Here is Darby obviously not remembering Amy;-)
These are such special people to our family.