Twins! The long journey to China for our babies.

2009-06-19T17:02:00.000-05:00

2009-06-02T13:43:00.002-05:00

Congratulations Sydnee on your graduation!

We are so proud of you!!!!!!!!

We sure wish we could have been there to see it, it sounds like you got a few scholarships, way to go. It pays off to study hard, and stay focused!

Lauren Congratulations TONIGHT on your graduation

We are so proud of you, we wish we could be there as well. I hope Karen is cooking a good meal for you, with peach cobbler for dessert.... Because that's what I would want.

Best of luck for you both in your future, stay safe, make wise choices, and keep God close.

2009-05-26T13:02:00.002-05:00

Chinese Adoption Reunion

We went to the adoption reunion, and were able to see one of the families we traveled with to China, most of our group lives in California or Florida so we do not get to see them much. The reunion was around Orlando, if only the girls new how close they were to Cinderella's Castle. We actually were going to go to Disney, but did not want to tell the girls until we made our mind up when we got there since it was during a Holiday weekend, and we were not sure how things were going to go. We are so glad we didn't say anything because Florida was getting flooded, and it was raining on us the whole time we were there. So we will just have to go back soon to see Cinderella!

We did tell the girls we were going to see some Chinese girls before we left for Florida and they said " Were going to China" no in Florida. When we were there they asked me if there were Chinese boys in China, yes girls. I even showed them a Chinese boy.

2009-05-16T13:24:00.003-05:00

Dance Recital

Hope refused to be in this picture, she was not happy about getting a rose, she wanted a gift not a flower! Well I guess I can't make them both happy all the time.

They did a really good job, I was so afraid that once they saw the people watching them that they would just stop and not dance, but they didn't.

They were extremely beautiful, I must say.

2009-05-04T16:21:00.002-05:00

Walk Like MADD

We would like to thank all our friends and family who donated to our walk, it means so much to us to have you support us in keeping our family as well as yours safe. I am so happy to say that we raised around $ 4800.00 for MADD. We were the TOP Friends and Family Team ( our Church ), and Dirk was the TOP Walker!!!!! For the Montgomery, Alabama MADD Walk

2009-04-27T08:16:00.001-05:00

Official Strawberry Pickers

The girls had a field trip at their school Friday, and they got to go to the strawberry patch. They were so excited about this that I didn't even have a problem putting them to bed the night before. I did however have to convince them that it was okay to grab the strawberries, because they do not like to get their hands dirty. They had a great time and enjoyed eating them, as did I.

2009-04-22T18:56:00.002-05:00

The Miss America Pageant at Our HouseYes, it's the wave!
The walk!

and No I am not entering them in any pageants!

at least until they are older, when they really understand what it's all about, and it's their choice, not mine, and they know that you can't always win, and with twins there will aways be one that doesn't.

Oh the challenges that lie ahead!

2009-04-14T19:18:00.002-05:00

Took some pictures of the girls last weekend when we went to the beach, but the sun was not in our favor and the beach was very crowded. We had not planned on taking pictures on the beach, I really wanted some on the dunes, but they had these signs up that said please stay off the dunes, so well we stayed off the dunes! So these were all that even made the cut at all.

2009-04-11T22:51:00.002-05:00

Happy EasterThe hunt is on....

Finally a picture with the Easter Bunny (without tears)! He must have been a very special bunny!!!!!

2009-04-06T07:47:00.002-05:00

Habitat for humanity had a carnival at the Boys and Girls Club here in town and Dirk had to pass out information for MADD ( Mothers against drunk driving). So the girls got to enjoy the carnival, they started playing some music ( Sweet Home Alabama) and Hope was out on the floor dancing, as if there was no one watching. She won't even do this at DANCE CLASS! I guess they are not playing the right kind of music for her! Faith finally joined her as well. The slides were the hit, although I was afraid someone was going to break their neck the way those kids would come flying down that slide all together at times. We had a good time and glad we were able to help in some way, maybe, just maybe we saved one life today!!!!

2009-03-28T14:46:00.003-05:00

It's Not A Sunny Day, as Hope would say. In fact its flooding!

This is pictures of our house, and while we are playing in the rain our neighbors down the street are putting out sand bags to keep it from coming into their house, but we did not know it was that bad down the street until later. We did offer to help after finding this out. No more playing! I am hoping the rain will stop for awhile so that there will be no more flooding.

2009-03-25T08:44:00.000-05:00

2009-03-22T19:43:00.003-05:00

Spring Break

We went to Destin for Spring break with Aunt Chell and Uncle Shane and the cousins Cody, Tanner and Bailey. The girl's had a great time with them. Poor Bailey didn't get much time to herself, because the girls shared a room with her. The twins enjoyed crabbing, we caught a lot, just outside of the condo. The dolphin's were the best, they swam right next to the boat and stayed around for a long time. We hope everyone had a good time so they will come back next year to see us!!!!!!

2009-03-09T08:59:00.002-05:00

Trampoline Play

It was a beautiful day yesterday so the girls enjoyed playing on the trampoline after church.

2009-03-06T15:36:00.005-06:00

Click here to support our walk with MADD :

http://support.madd.org/site/TR?pg=personal&fr_id=2481&px=2467904

any amount will help!

Please if you can help us try to reach our goal to raise, for a cause so dear to our hearts. The walk will be May 2 at the Montgomery ZOO, so help us WALK Like MADD and raise the money to support mothers against drunk drivers keep the impaired drivers off our streets.

What am I doing?
I am walking to support Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in saving lives on our nations streets and highways. Please help me reach my fundraising goal by making a donation now.
What does MADD do?
MADD works in more than 600 communities across the country, and has more than 1,400 trained victim advocates on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to support victims with comfort or legal assistance they can rely on.
Finding a cure...
Unlike most others, our cause doesn't need a cure; it already exists-it's you and me, our friends, our neighbors. It's all of us choosing to drive sober or designating a driver if we drink alcohol.

2009-03-05T11:10:00.002-06:00

Saturday Morning Cartoons!!!

As you can see things around here have not changed much, girls are still running around half dressed, at least they have a shirt on, even if it was from the day before, I guess I will not get MOTHER OF THE YEAR AWARD! I walked in the livingroom to find Hope sitting in the laundry basket, when I asked her what she was doing she just said watching cartoons, as if there was nothing strang about sitting it that basket. Faith on the other hand wanted no part of the picture taking, so sorry if the picture is not good, she refused to stay still so I could take her picture.

2009-03-02T14:47:00.002-06:00

Dr. Seuss Birthday Party

at school so the girls got to dress like a Dr. Seuss character, so we did Thing 1 and Thing 2, how appropriate! I made the shirt so it wasn't great, but it made it through the day, so that's all that counts. They looked cute, Dirk asked me how I chose who got to be 1 and who got to be 2 and I said who I dressed first, The one that was done eating breakfast first was the first number. They seem to be fine with that, Faith did say that she could be number 1 next time, and I said that's right.

By the way Faith has been carrying this purse around with her lately!

2009-02-08T14:41:00.002-06:00

A day at the Park

The girls had a birthday party to go to at the park Saturday so we decided to make a day of it and stay later and have a picnic. This is a really nice park with nature trails and farm animals. It was nice to be able to look at the farm animals knowing that we would not have to feed them ( YEA!!!!) They even had twin lambs. They have old buildings at this park, like the picture of the old Church, the girls are ringing the bell, and when we got to our Church this morning, which is an older church the girl's wanted to ring the bell ( It doesn't have the rope that I know of) , but it does have a bell that rings.

This is our house, not the park

2009-02-06T09:13:00.003-06:00

Tammy passed along this little award. Thank you Tammy!

www.enjoyingourjourney.blogspot.com

Now here are the rules for this award:1. Pass it on to 5 fabulous blogs, including the one that gave it to you (and link them) and List 5 of your fabulous addictions..... .Easy enough!

I choose:

landfam.blogspot.com
mygardenhat.blogspot.com
everydaythatiwake.blogspot.com
watchourblessingsgrow.blogspot.com
www.nienieandgoose.blogspot.com
Addictions

1. Family
2. Blogging
3. Friends
4. Coffee
5. Beach

2009-02-06T06:00:00.001-06:00

Happy Birthday MimiWe love you and miss you !

2009-01-28T09:26:00.000-06:00

2009-01-28T08:54:00.003-06:00

Chinese New Year

Year of the ox

We celebrated Chinese New Year at Troy University Saturday Night

2009-01-23T09:07:00.001-06:00

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

2009-01-18T22:31:00.002-06:00

Faith eating a snickers bar, these girls amaze me how they can keep their clothes so clean even when their hands are covered in chocolate.

2009-01-13T09:28:00.002-06:00

World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions

We took the girl's to see these horses last weekend and they really enjoyed them, they called them the dancing horses. It was really amazing what these horses can do. The pictures are not great, but here are some, for some reason I had two four year old climbing all over me while I was trying to take pictures.