what's happening...

To start things off, we have been working on our 'baggie of love' to send to our little guy in Ethiopia. We mailed it off last week to our agency and then they will send it on. This first album is the one we put togehter for his birth mom. It has plenty of extra pages for pictures throughout the years...
This is the cute little 'album' we got for our little guy. It is only three pages, but they are held together bythe cute little wooden ring. The pages are different material and the little leaves on the ends are different material too. it's really cute.

This is the blanket we bought for him the night we got the referral. it is super soft and cuddly.

This past weekend was Bible Bowl. We went to Denver area again. Here is one of our teams. My oldest nephew Brendan was on the team. They got 6th place in Division 1 (that's good).

We got home late Saturday night (acutally Sunday morning) and crashed. Dan didn't get to go to the tournament because it was inventory at the store and he worked crazy bunches of hours. I got to get up and make my sweet little niece macy her birthday cake for her 7th birthday. She is the only girl with 3 brothers. And let me tell you, she is all girl. here is here Barbie cake up close. Ignore the head wrapped in plastic wrap - I had to keep the hair out of the way somehow...

the bottom of the dress is all cake. it was fun to make. I had never tried one of these before, but it came out great. I also did a basic cake for her as well. We weren't sure how many people would be there, but wanted to have enough cake.

The birthday girl...

Dan with sweet nephew Grant getting some 'lovin'

Here is my sister's 4 kids. They are 11, 9, 7, and 2. Lots of fun...

Grant was just ready for the cake...

Macy was ready for the presents - here she is with some of her new makeup on that she got as a present.

And here are her and I playing with her new Barbie. She was super excited to be able to wash and dye this barbie's hair.

And this is what Dan is doing as I update this blog. We started working on cleaning out and re-arranging the living room. If you know me, you'll know I do this often. It's my way of 'moving without moving'.

I hope you all have a great evening. Pray for us as we anxiously await news of our court date!