Ethan's First Dance

Ethan had his first Junior High Dance last week and it was a new and great experience. He had a blast with a bunch of his boy pals and he looked handsome as can be in his cool dress up outfit. We met 3 of his great pals at one of their houses and took pictures then the limo took them to the dance. This dance was totally a big deal at their school!!! We love their school for all these cool things and extracurricular things they get to do. Not only does Owen get to take a field trip every month but the Junior Highers get to learn Swing Dancing in PE and practice it at the dance. We love UCA!!!!

Our handsome boys-- Ethan, Jared, Sammy and Zach

They thought they were soooooo cooooool!!!!

Out by the pool showing their amazing strength--haha!!

So cute!

Of course I made him do the mommy and me picture!!

Another one!!

Dad, Ethan and Mom

Two of my three handsome men!

Looking cool by the limo

Awwwww!!! The light was off so I turned it sepia

Such good friends

Ethan and Sammy inside the limo

Jared and Zach inside the limo

The boys posing with the kids at their table. We were able to walk the kids in and take pictures but then we had to leave. We were not allowed to stay at all-- parents not allowed. The kids loved that part.

Sammy is in 7th grade so he had to sit with the 7th graders but here are out pals from 6th grade that Ethan sat with-- Matthew, Jared and Zach

The boys had a blast. What a fun dance!!!

More Easter

More Easter for your viewing pleasure!!! My brother and sister in law have a farm that they do farm tours for schools and they also have a CSA farming program where the community helps with the farming and they get fresh produce-- awesome place-- check it out at www.amysfarm.com. Anyway, they do a big egg hunt every year and these first pictures are from the hunt.

Mia getting ready for the big hunt

Savannah and Mia cleaning up

Mia and Savannah (my brothers youngest child) are 7 months apart and great pals. They are so cute together!

Mia checking out the cows

Mia checking out the horse who was pregnant and by the way, my boys spent the night this week at the farm with his cousins (spring break) and they got to see this horse give birth-- literally the whole thing of the baby coming out and everything. They were sooooo tripped out but thought it was totally cool. The baby colt is adorable!!

Our Lucky Mommies group had an Easter party at Gracie's house this year. It was a great time full of playing, a hunt and food!! It was a blast and we so appreciated Tanya for throwing a great party!

Mia playing on the play set

Twerp

Having tons of fun!!

Loving the slide

Eating lunch with all the kids-- they have so much fun together!

The hunt!!

Georgie in her adorable Easter outfit hunting for eggs

Becky and Gracie checking out their loot

The group posing for the pictures. From left to right- Ryan, Gracie, Becky, Katie, Megan, Kaylee and Mia. Georgie was not quite into the pics but she was there too.

Becky, Katie and Megan

Beautiful Georgie

Beautiful Gracie

Gracie and Becky checking sharing their stuff

Mia and Georgie hanging out laughing. Really they were. They were whispering in each others ears and laughing. It was so cute. We live a couple mile from Georgie and they both go to the same preschool/ day care so they are great pals.

Lots more pictures to post over the next few days. We have Ethan's first school dance and Disneyland yesterday. We are also heading to Arrowhead today and were going to snowboard tomorrow so I should have some good pictures from that too.

Have a great weekend.

April 6, 2007- Mia's Referral Day!!!

Three years ago today I received a phone call from our China coordinator that we had received our referral for our beautiful little girl. She was only 5 months old on that day and we immediately fell in love with her! It was a long road to get the referral for Mia. Our file had been lost the month before and we were skipped. That month was hard to get through, but knowing we would one day see our little girls face got us through. Our agency worked VERY hard to find our file and get it where it needed to be in order to get us our referral the next month and thank the LORD they made Magic happen and on April 6, 2007, we saw our little girl! I know some people don't believe in the whole "meant to be" philosophy, but I can tell you that God moved time in order to bring us our little girl. She was meant to be a part of our family from day one and God did some amazing things in order to get us our referral in the month of April. If we would have got our referral in March (like we were supposed to) we never would have received Mia. We were skipped on March 5, 2007 and March 6, 2007- the day after we were skipped- Mia's file was processed for International Adoption. She was not even available for adoption until the day after we were skipped and traditionally in international adoptions the babies are not supposed to be available to be adopted until the are 6 months old but Mia became available and was processed when she was only 4 months old. Totally crazy. Believe in "meant to be" or not, but I know supernatural things happened in order to place Mia in our family!!! AMAZING!!!

Our adorable little girl- Ba Jun Fei born on October 29, 2006 in Yueyang County Hunan

This picture was when she was 3 months old. She is so cute!!!

I look at these referral pictures and I really don't see Mia in them. I think she has changed so much and looks so different now. WOW!! My beautiful little girl!!!

Happy Easter and Happy Birthday Honey!!!!

Easter was a lot of fun. Besides being Easter, it is Kevin's birthday!!! Cool day!! Anyway, we started our Easter traditions last night with our nice time at home alone reflecting on the reason we celebrate and the sacrifice Jesus made for us. We decided that this was the year we would show the boys THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST which is a very hard movie to watch for an adult let alone a tween. We decided they were ready and both have grown so much spiritually this year that we wanted them to see in a very visual way the sacrifice Jesus made for us. It was a powerful movie and both boys were very moved but I am thrilled we showed it to them. It brought Easter to a new level for them and I am thankful they have those images to pull from.

Mia at hockey game before our movie night.

The kids woke up to their Easter baskets. We don't really do the Easter bunny and Mia doesn't really know about it, but we do Easter baskets but rather focus on Jesus rather than Bunnies.

Awwwww Legos!!!

After church we had an Easter Hunt for the kids

We did it up really well with high quality Easter baskets-- Grocery Store Plastic Bags-- oh ya!!!

Mia had removed some of Owens eggs and Owen was less than happy about it--

Mia was thrilled

The adults having our cheese platter. My cousin Sara lives in Switzerland with her husband Andy. Remember Sara is the World champ in Woman's Track Cycling. She just won Worlds again and is on top of the game again. She flew home and surprised her parents for Easter. She will be here for a week so we are planning on getting together this week for lunch. YA!!!!

Sara with her parents and my 95 year old grandma in the background.

It was also Kevin's birthday today so we celebrated his special day as well. Happy birthday my dear!!!!!