Thanksgiving week

Thanksgiving week ... we have so much to be thankful for this year. Taylor is doing well, we are working as hard as we can to make our paperwork go quickly so we can bring Long xuan home, Emilee and Sara are such awesome young ladies, I am so proud of both of them. We are rich indeed this year.

Taylor was a pilgrim this past Friday at school, her kindergarten class put on a cute program for the parents and then we shared a traditional Thanksgiving meal of cut up fruit and chips and dip and cupcakes :)

Then on Saturday we attended the Family Life Services family day - this is National Adoption Awareness month - it was an ice skating party and Taylor got to try out the ice. She's decided she doesn't want to be an ice skater but it was fun.

Emilee and Taylor are off all week so we are going to have to get inventive on finding something fun to do - bring on the Christmas crafts!

Happy Birthday, Emilee!

Yesterday was Emilee's 17th birthday. Wow time flies when you are having fun :) I don't have any pictures to share because Em is the person who always wants to be behind the lens and runs and hides when anyone points a picture her way but it was a great birthday, strung out over the entire weekend and was hilighted by seeing old friends, attending a hockey game, good food, presents, paint ball tournament with family, lots of fun. Emilee is trying to suffer through high school and has her eyes on the prize - college! She can hardly wait to attend LU - she will love it and I can hardly wait to see her shine.

Halloween '09

Taylor says she's going to be a cheerleader when she grows up so she decided she'd practice a little for Halloween. Tom and I, along with Emilee and cousin Jesse took T to our Church's fall festival where attendance was over 3100 people. Lots of cool costumes and fun games and candy! After the carnival Taylor decided we should top off the evening with milkshakes from Chick-Fil-A :)