Water + Soap = Way 2 much fun !!

It all started with Taylor washing his bike :) !!!

So I heard Brayden thinks I am a baby .......

Well its not true 'cause ...........

I decided to wear underwear today !!!!!!!!!!
So this is day one of training for Arianna . Brayden is still doing great ... no accidents and dry through the night.

Hey ....... Guess what !!!

I am potty trained and that means I am a big boy like Taylor .... my hero !!! And don't tell Arianna but I think diapers are for babies :)

Doras Birthday ??

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books

I guess today is Doras birthday :) Don't you love how the twins are arguing about when Ariannas birthday is .... I don't think they realize they have the same bday !! It will be interesting when they do realize .. I wonder what they will think !!??

FFF My oldest princess

O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise;

you perceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down;

you are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

You hem me in—behind and before;

you have laid your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me

and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you;

the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.

When I awake, I am still with you. AMEN

This is my favorite verse of the week. I have really struggled with fear after the incident with Taylor and this verse gives me comfort. We are not in control. God is . And praise him for that !!!

Summer nights

My summer sweeties

all cozy and clean in there pjs

Brayden is my little chipmunk ... always storing something is his cheeks :)

Oh your mark

get set

GO !!!!

This picture is a crack up .... they were doing this so I couldn't take anymore pictures of them !!


Thank you all for your well wishes and prayers for Taylor. He is doing much better and seems to be back to his normal self ..... he is already riding his dirtbike !! AHHHH ... boys. I am praying for no more concussions for a LONG while !!!

Day 2 of potty training went well . Brayden only had one accident. And SURPRISE at about 5pm tonight who should come strolling out of the bedroom with undies on ... ARIANNA !! She did give in to the "peer pressure" but we shall see what tomorrow brings :)

EXHAUSTED BUT THANKFUL

OH my goodness. What a day . I spent 5 hours in the ER today because Taylor had another concussion . But we are sooooo thankful he is okay. What happened is he was going down a waterslide at a lake and he was getting out of the water but fell back in and just as he fell back in he landed in the path of the next person sliding down and there knee hit his head. It knocked him out cold so we had to call 911. It was so scary . They sent him home with the diagnosis "mild head injury (again !!) and told us just to watch him for 24 hours. Thank you Lord that he is okay ... but boy I am exhausted !!!


PS Brayden did awesome potty training today. He was home with the nanny during all of this so she kept bringing him to the bathroom and NO ACCIDENTS !! He doesn't tell us when he has to go but we just bring him about every 30 minutes. I thought this would spark Ariannas interest but NO .... she just tells him good job , slaps him hi-5 and continues on loving her diapers :) She could care less !!

School days

ORIENTATION

Okay so this is the year it starts . 7th grade is the first time Angelika was embarrassed of me taking pictures of her :)

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Like Leslie said I think I am the last mom on the earth to have her kids start school :) We were all very ready !! Now that we are more in a rountine maybe , just maybe I will attempt again to potty train the twins...... AGAIN . They have to catch on soon ..... right !!?? Oh and ever since my meltdown Arianna has been much better. Maybe she knew I was at the end of my rope . Whatever it was I am enjoying her better behavior .... for today !!

Can you tell we are "2" ?? We have attitude written all over our faces !!

"One adoption may not change the world,
but it will change the world for one child."
-Author Unknown

I got this quote from the blog of an amazing 16 year old who has a heart for orphans. Check out her blog http://guatemolly1.blogspot.com/