Super Fun Saturday

Saturday started out to be a pretty boring day. We just hung out around the house and didn't really do much of anything. Jason and Judah took a nap while Kenya and I did a whole lot of nothing.

Normally we don't get bored and we don't let Kenya say she is bored but I'm just trying to keep it real... that was not my most favorite Saturday morning ever. Then I remembered there was a garden not too far from our house and a town fest not too far from the garden. After Jason and Judah woke up we started off on our adventure.

Kenya is getting so big! I have really loved watching her learn new things and watching her explore the world around her.

Kenya LOVES bugs! She will pick up almost any bug, lizard or frog and I can't stand them but she doesn't know so don't tell her :) 

Proudly posing with her roly poly.

It was almost impossible to get a good picture of Judah because he was on the go the whole time we were there.

This picture is for Austin family proof that Judah is a tree hugger.

I love this!

Me, my girl and her bug. This picture reminds me of what Kenya likes to tell people when they come over... she says, "My Mom and Judah are white and me and my Dad are brown." It is so cute!

And again for the Austin family Kenya is also a tree hugger.

Judah is all boy!

We were driving away from the garden and Jason spotted the coolest playground EVER.

Kenya loved climbing on this spider web.

Judah enjoyed hanging out at the top of the slide. 

Really, he enjoyed it although you can't tell by the look on his face. 

He finally slid down with his sister.

Kenya is telling me what to write for this picture:

"Kenya pushing Judah. I wanted to push Judah so bad when I was little I was going to push him but I was going to be too scared but I'm not scared I'm going to push Judah and my Dad is going to push me so fast and he can push me so so high and it's really scary, that's it."

Kenya is telling me what to write for this one too:

"My Dad is pushing me, that's it."

Jason trying to get Judah to slide down.

Kenya climbing across the spider web. Notice the guy taking a picture of his son.

Jason saw this picture and said why is he taking a picture of Kenya? I said he's not he is taking a picture of his son, see.... Oh wait, his son is not in the shot... weird...

This climbing thing was so cool!

Judah loves to climb on EVERYTHING!

After we left the garden we headed to the town fest and we had a BLAST. This was the first time Kenya was tall enough to ride alot of rides and she was a lot more brave than I thought she was going to be. She loved this ride and it went super fast.

This ride went up and down while going in a circle and the whole time she was saying, "This is Toothless, my pet dragon."

This slide was fun...

But this one was awesome!

Jason and Kenya went first and they went so fast. I took her next and I'm not sure what I did wrong but on the way down we stopped several times because we were going too slow... my bad...

My favorite part of the day...

COTTON CANDY!!!!

We had so much fun on our family day! 

Thank you to the grandparents for giving us money for the kids for Easter, we took them out on the town and had a SUPER FUN day! 

I need help! UPDATE

Okay I think we found someone and I am sooooo excited!!!! I will let y'all know for sure once the appointment is set!

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We need to find a psychiatrist or psychologist in the DFW area of Texas that can administer a standardized test and write up a report (no longer than 3 pages) that includes a ton of information from our interview (I have all the details I just didn't want to post them on here). I have called more than twenty psychiatrist's and/or psychologist's in the past few days and NO ONE is able to do this. If you know of anyone that can do this please, please let me know ASAP. This is for the purpose of international adoption.
Thank you so much!
Vanessa

Judah the drummer!

Museum Days

This blog is soooo neglected and I can't promise that it will get any better but I was going through our pictures and realized I haven't really blogged about the last few months of our lives so I am hoping to get caught up. How was that for a run on sentence :)

Jason and I went to the Museum with some really good friends of ours and their kids. Kenya also brought her friend Brooklyn.

Kenya and Brooklyn loved this giant tinker toy display.

Maycee, Kenya, Mariah, Alysah and Brooklyn cutting cups in hopes that they will fly the longest and highest in the air tunnel.

Here they are trying out their designs.

Judah just being cute wondering what will happen if he puts the block in the hole.

Jason making a super cool tower out of the wooden... sticks?

Not sure what they are called but my husband has skillz that's all I'm saying.

We had a really great time!

home study update

Check out our adoption blog for an update. Normally I will just update the adoption blog and not post it on here but I just wanted to send out this little reminder :)

On a side note...

Thank you to the person who was looking out for us and told me our bio talks about us adopting. I just wanted to clear up what I meant when I said we can't talk about it. Here is what we are not allowed to do... we can't say where he is from, what his name is and we can't post a picture other then that we are good to go. I will be keeping up with the adoption blog so y'all can join us on this journey I just wont post any of those things above.

Thanks again,

Vanessa

Please Read! New New Plan

I just found out that we have to stop talking about pursuing Baby A until we have been approved by a social worker and have an official commitment to his adoption. The reason is it puts him on a "virtual hold". Thank you all for your understanding. I am new to all of this and I want to make sure we are doing things right!


If you have posted a blog about us being his parents or about us trying to adopt him please take it down ASAP. We don't want to do anything that could jeopardize anyone's chances of getting him.

Since the beginning we have said we don't want to compete for the Baby. We love him and would love to adopt him but it is our desire to see him adopted into a loving family who will teach him about Jesus even if it's not ours.

I hope all of this makes since.

Thank you guys for understanding!

Vanessa

Playing in the snow

We had a crazy snow storm come in early this morning so we decided to take advantage if it and go play in the snow.

I am just blown away by the beauty of God's creation!

Happy 1st Birthday Judah

Today is Judah's first birthday and I can not believe how fast this last year has flown by!

Here are a few pictures from the birthday party we had for him last week. I am hoping to post a longer blog later on this week but for now this will have to do.

Kenya and Judah's wrestling match