Happy Birthday Peyton!

On Sunday Peyton turned 14!!

WHAT!

We celebrated him at Upsurge, our local trampoline park! The kids had lots of fun. I don't think I've ever heard Peyton laugh so much! I tried my best not to cringe the entire time because GERMS.

After the party we went to eat at a local Japanese restaurant. We always take the kids out on their birthday and they get to pick where! :)

It's true when people say you blink and your kids are grown. Fourteen years have FLOWN by!

Happy Birthday Peyton!!

This cake! Supreme is a clothing brand that Peyton is in to...we pretty much let our kids ask for whatever they want when it comes to cake. The Coke bottle is a cake also!!!

Mia's First Gotcha Day!

On December 5th we celebrated our first Mia Day!! Some families call it Gotcha Day, but at our house it's Mia Day! :)

Yes, I'm just now posting about it because I forgot to post it. I have five kids, cut me some slack! haha!

Mia had to get blood that day so most of our day was spent at Children's Hospital. But, that meant that I got to hog her all day...no school for her or working for me! After we were done we met Josh and the other kids at a local Chinese restaurant to eat Mia's favorite....rice noodles!

Our first year with Mia was a busy, busy year. It was full of ups and downs, easy times and hard times.  It was full of doctor's appointments and blood transfusions. It was full of learning about her and learning about ourselves. Through it all we have been SO SO blessed! I still can't believe our baby was born all the way across the world. I still can't believe the Lord called us to this.

Adoption will change you like you wouldn't believe.

If you feel that nudge, please reach out to me! I would LOVE to talk with you! We can talk on the phone, text, email, have lunch(y'all know I love chips and salsa!!!)...how ever you feel like talking! :)

Christmas!

Whew! The last few weeks have been a whirlwind! Christmas is always super busy for us, as you can imagine. We had a wonderful time spending it with family!

I was just going through all the pictures and got completely overwhelmed. I'm just going to post a few, there are just too many to post! And there aren't any from Christmas morning because I have teenage boys who like to sleep with their shirts off so there's that. haha!

 Everyone else was eating so I just held this little angel! She's so sweet!

 I wish I could explain how much Brooks loves her! He tells me all the time how much he loves baby Nora!

 My big boys asked me to get them ugly Christmas sweaters this year and it made me SO HAPPY! hahaha!

 This is my new favorite picture of Mia! It was a pretend coffee maker. She LOVES to pretend she's drinking coffee and this was one of her favorite gifts! haha!

 Josh's parents with their grands! And here you can see Peyton's sweater! It lights up! haha!

 A Christmas Eve nap! She was really asleep, he was not! :)

 I love us! :)