Comedy Central

Lately things have been so busy, but my girls have not ceased to keep the silliness coming!  Here is a list of just a few of the funny things they have been up to and saying lately;

• I had to take something out of the oven and Hadley made a beeline for the bathroom and put a book in the toilet.
• Cameryn wants a kitten so bad, she said she was going to get a cat from kitty Ethiopia.
• Hadley laid on her belly in the kitchen and used her hands to scoot herself backward and thought it was the greatest thing ever.
• Cameryn has been telling Josh she is going to "shut things down".  For example, "Daddy, I'm going to shut your work down!" or "Daddy I'm going to shut your Diet Coke down!"  It doesn't make a ton of sense, but she heard it on Sesame Street and thinks it's hilarious.
• I look in the backseat and frequently see Hadley with no hair bow, socks, or shoes and she is sucking on her toes.
• Cameryn goes to dance class every week and without fail she will start randomly dancing and shaking her butt to whatever tune she is hearing in her head, because "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is really not a butt shaking kinda song.
• Hadley pushes our big kitchen table chairs all around the kitchen like Mighty Mouse.
• Cameryn is really starting to like to sing along with the radio in the car and LOVES to do it in a silly voice to get a laugh out of me.
• Hadley is starting to really walk a lot now, but it does wear a girl out.  At these moments she just lays down face first on the carpet for 20 seconds and grins.  Then she is right back up and energized

I could go on and on.  These girls bring me so much joy and I am so blessed to be their momma!  I love their silliness and I'm so thankful that I get to spend my days watching that develop and be silly right along with them.

All Secret Agent-Like

I must admit I was really excited to get our fingerprinting done for our background checks!  It really wasn't as secret agent-like as I had hoped, it was really more like being arrested without all the tough talk and crying I would do if I were to get arrested.  This set of fingerprints is not for immigration so it's not "the fingerprinting" that we will get at the court house, so we got to do it from the comforts of our local UPS store.  The staff was so kind and helpful because we were very obviously new at this.  Josh was a pro!  It makes me a little suspicious that this was not his first time, but I'll let the FBI be the judge of that.  I on the other hand was a complete dork.  I was shaking so badly!  I guess I was just nervous that I would mess them up and smudge them and then 8 weeks from now we would get a letter saying we need to resubmit them and wait another 2 months!  My handy UPS man assured me they were fine and most importantly my sweet husband spoke some truth.  "God's timing is not your timing.  If they are good or bad or whatever, it's what he wants."  I'm sure this will not be the last time he has to say this to me, but I'm thankful I can count on him.  Next stop, home study visit to our home next week, YIKES!

Snow Day!

It's a little weird to post this today since the snow is melted and it was bike riding weather, but here it is.  Yesterday we had our first really good snow day of the year....in March.

Knocking snow off of the playset was a priority : ) 

 Don't hate the snow man!  Well, snow-thing.  It was our friend.

 Until Cameryn decided to jump on him : )

 Snow Angels!!  This pic is my favorite

 Lily, making sure everything is okay in the snow angel deparment

 More knocking snow off of things.  Look at that happy face!

 The pretty winter view

Hot Chocolate to warm up!

Thanks Everybody!

I got to post this on facebook and email everyone, but for memory keeping purposes and to acknowledge those with charitable hearts I have to blog about it too!  We closed out our 31 fundraiser last week and just wanted to say a big THANK YOU!!!! to  Lindsey Sizemore for donating all the procedes to our adoption fund.  We also wanted to thank everyone that bought things and supported us in our very first fundraiser. So a special thank you to;

Dottie Dowell
Deb Burt
Miranda Herbert
Dana Cundiff
Geri Cundiff
Tina Newton
Denise Eakins
Mary Channon
Jackie Sheely
April Suhar
Dina Tostrud

"Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, he will repay him for his deed." prov. 19:17

Hanging with Hadley

As promised pictures of my wild lady!  Hadley is so precious, and I am so blessed to be her momma.  Here are a few recent pics of our little BooBoo Bear in action.  Naked Chair Climbing will be coming to the 2028 Olympics : )

 "Hey Sissy, I'm coming to sit with you!"

Stuck in the middle

Practice makes perfect : )

Giving her big sister a smooch....she is such a lover!

Hugs in Valentine's Day PJ's

This picture is just too sweet not to post

This one, well this one is Hadley.  She loves big and gets mad big!  Let's just say she was ready for bed time : )

Updates

February has been a slow month for blogging for me! Since my thoughts are not even close to organized these days I will just update everyone on what this month has held for us as a family.

• We turned in our application and have been accepted by our adoption agency, Lifeline Children's Services. Yay for progress!
• Hadley has been ornery as ever lately!  I am planning to post an array of pictures very soon that portray her daily stunt woman acts : )
• Hadley is also jabbering away lately.  It is so funny to hear her just go on and on!
• Cameryn has been extra cute here lately and has really been getting into saying her prayers.  She prays for everything and everyone and it about makes me cry every time.
• Josh went out of town for a few days for work so we are happy to have him home with us : )
• Me and the girls went on an adventure with Erica and Sawyer to this amazing, FREE, indoor playground in Columbus, IN for the day and had a ball.  I don't have any pictures because I had enough stuff to carry, but I may just post the one Erica got of me when I had to climb to the top of this giant thing to get Cameryn down, LOL!
• We are hoping to turn in a stack of paper work and our first agency payment next week so we can schedule our first home study meeting, so please pray for all of that.
• My sweet nephew Will turned 2! I can't believe it but he is.  We celebrated at Chuck-e-Cheese, where a kid can be a kid, and a mom can become a psycho-path!  Just kidding, the kids had sooooo much fun and I got to eat pizza : )
• My triplets turned 17 years old!  I am applying for my AARP card as we speak.  Where does the time go?  I can't believe that they will soon be launched out into the world.  My prayer is that God will protect them always and that they will see how much He loves them each day.
• I, as well as Josh, have felt a bit attacked by satan lately.  It's very strange.  You know he is real because God's word says he is, but when you actually see things happen in your own life it is still shocking.  The very week we turned in our application to adopt we had some setbacks financially and emotionally.  We prayed through it and I feel the Lord really strengthened our faith in those few days.  God is so faithful.   I knew this journey would be hard, but I just didn't realize it would be hard so soon.  I'm so thankful that we serve a God that cares for us and wants us to cast our care on Him because his burden in light.
• Our lead pastor at East Campus at Highview has been called to preach at another church so please pray for his family and our church as we seek the leader God has for us.
• We are heading back up to Columbus tomorrow to celebrate our nephew Hayden's birthday!  We are so blessed to have so many sweet kids to watch grow up.  I love seeing Justin and Hayden interact, they have this step-dad/brother/friend kind of thing and it is wonderful.  I'm so thankful that they have eachother and we have all of them!!
• Mom 2 Mom is back in full swing for me so I am very happy.  I love this group of women at our church and it gives me the encouragement I need to get through the week.  Looking into the Bible with a person who is a stage ahead of you in life is a major blessing.

That is all I can think of for the time being, like I said my thoughts are far from organized.  I hope you feel in the loop now : )

A Warm Day Remembered

On this particularly frigid day I felt the need to blog about a day we had a few weeks ago where the temperature was over 60 degrees and Camy got to practice riding her first big girl bike.  Great memories made in just over an hour.  Josh just got home from work, believe me he does not wear a tie when he doesn't have to, and Camy and I were taking advantage of Hadley's late nap to go out and test her new toy.  Dad is the ultimate playmate so off they went.  It was such a contented feeling to sit back with my camera and snap away as they went up and down the side walk.  I'm so thankful my girls have a daddy that adores them.  Rather than come right in and flip on the TV after a hard day, he's present in whatever is going on. Today it was nice weather and bike riding, the next day it was probably screaming and an entire bag of Cheerios dumped on the floor!  But either way, he lets me know we are in this together.

The pictures kind of progress as she got more comfortable with peddling and steering and watching where she was going.  She did take one spill when she went off the sidewalk but nothing major.  Her heart swelled with pride as we cheered her on when she was going all by herself.  It was just precious to see her.  I'm not sure what it is about riding a bike, if it's the commonality of it, that most all kids do it as children and remember it fondly, but it just seem like a right of passage.  A mile stone if you will.  People always talk about having children one day and one of the things often listed that they look forward to is teaching them to ride a bike.  Well here it is, still with training wheels, but it is one more sign our baby is growing up.  I really should stop before I start bawling.  We love you Camy Lynn and are so proud of you!!!

 Dad is getter her going

 First crash

 Getting the hang of things

 She's doing it on her own

 Shear joy!

Melts my heart