Dancing the night away

I actually had my camera handy when the kids were

being so stinkin cute dancing at Aunt Nancy and Uncle Fred's as we were celebrating a wedding shower for our niece and her fiancé earlier this evening. 

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoy the "dancing" stars!  :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



This Mother's Day

This Mother's Day has been such a sweet, sweet day.

 

Kevin and I traveled to Miami University with our four lovely children to attend our niece's graduation.  Spending time with my husband, children, and Kevin's family was so enjoyable. 

 

The weather was perfect.  The occasion grand, and the company was exceptional.

 

Lovely people, lovely day.

 

A beaming graduate!

 

 

 

A trio of family

 

 

 

Handsome cousins

 

 

 

Gram and her grandchildren -

Missing a few of her chicks . . . Two in Denver,

One at Purdue, and one in China . . .

 

 

 

Kevin's sister, mother of the graduate, saying

"The Irish Blessing" in honor of Mary's day

(Kevin is part Irish and very proud of it!)

 

 

 

Some silly goings on during the ceremony!  Can we say that a couple of

little boys were not paying attention??  :)

 

 

 

Brothers

 

 

 

A new family picture

 

 

Today was a beautiful day.

 

 

Only one thing missing . . .

 

 

This little girl who needs her mommy and daddy . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Grace needs to be home surrounded by her forever family, enjoying days like this. 

 

 



Adorable!

A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E

 

 

 

Is it ok to brag? 

 

 

 

 

I love all of our children to the moon and back.

 

 

 

 

We think they are wonderful, beautiful (handsome), and amazing!

 

 

 

 

Stunning Sophia

 

 

 

Engaging Elijah

 

 

 

Photogenic Philip

 

 

 

Terrific Ted

 

 

 

Gracious Grace

 

 

 



It's about time!

Life has been busy around here, to say the least! 

My mom has been struggling with some health issues and our schedule has been full with trips to the doctor for mom and our little ones and all of the fun activities that go along with happy children! 

Here are some images from the past few weeks.

 

Taking pictures for our dossier of some of the rooms in our home. ..

Thought you might like to see an "uncluttered" view of our home! 

 

 





These pictures make me giggle. What you don't see is all of the chaos

just beyond the lense of my camera! 

 

Oh well, we can pretend that our home really looks like this all of the time!

 

 

Sweet moment with Grandma

 

 

 

Dribbling pro

Elijah chilling out at his preschool fieldtrip

Major league baseball player

Our friend Jennifer giving a cake decorting
demonstration for Sophia's Keeper of the Home troop

Just like the professional cake decorators... 
Cake Boss, here we come!

"Helping" Papa open his birthday presents as Ted looks on...

Love this picture!

 

 Wishing my mom and Kevin happy birthday!

 

A quiet moment before bedtime

Philip showing off his work of art today at the park


 



 

Sophia is happy to show her artwork, too!

 

 

 

Homeschool fun

We have so much fun with our homeschool co-op friends.

 

 

 

Here are some of those great times together recently. . .

 

 

 

Keepers of the Home Girls' Club about a week ago

 

 

Chatting together while they all learn a new skill

 

 

 

Ted graciously led a theatre workshop

on our behalf for our homeschool group during

his spring break.  Thanks Ted.  It was great!

 

 

Some of Ted's students also graciously came

to help out.  That was so sweet of these students to

give up some time during their spring break.

 

 

Art on the farm - another homeschool event

 

 

 

Mrs. Miller, who is an artist, led an art workshop

at her farm.  She taught the children how to draw

realistic looking farm animals.

 

 

 

She demonstrates drawing for Sophia

 

 

 

As you can see, our children had fun on the farm

 

 

 

After drawing animals, we all got to pet real ones!

 

 

 

There were even pony rides!  A big hit!!

 

 

As I have said before, we love our homeschool co-op activities.  They bring a richness to our school week!

 

 

 



Introducing

Introducing our beautiful new daughter and sister . . .

Grace Chengmei

We are overjoyed that God is adding to our family.

We, who twenty-eight years ago were wondering if we would ever be able to have any children . . .

Let alone five precious gifts from God!

"For nothing is impossible with God"



Happy Easter!

Christ is risen indeed!

 

 

 

Happy Easter everyone.

 

 

 

Our precious children already home.

 

 

 

Our poor children. . .they don't have any candy.

 

 

Not! 

 

It might just take us until summer to down all of the candy

they have collected in the last couple of days! 

 

 

 

 

Easter dudes in fancy duds

 

 

 

Playing tag with Miss DiDi before the egg hunt yesterday

 

 

 

 

The 5 and under group waiting to begin the hunt

 

 

 

 

Trying to hold the 6 and up group at bay so the little

ones can have their hunt - too funny!

 

 

 

Ok, now it's their turn!

 

 

 

 

Shifting through their loot