I am the daughter of a king, wife of the most incredible man, mother of an amazing boy born from my belly and mother of two beautiful girls and one handsom boy born in my heart. I am an African loving, adoption advocating, orphan loving, holy spirit filled, Irish football crazed, Jesus loving girl on a mission to provide a family that is a living example of what God's love looks like. Undefined by size, color or nationality bringing glory to him one adoption at a time.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

4th of July

First Day of Church!! 
More boat riding in the pool!!
Waiting for fireworks!
First fingernail polish!
And toes!
And Nolan's toes too!

Awww....these are my other favorite girls.  Not sure why Lizzy has her tongue on in both pics but it was too cute not to put it in!
Happy Belated 4th of July to all!

What an awesome weekend for our family.  We finally got to settle down and spend some well needed time for the 4 of us.  We honestly spent almost every second of the weekend in the pool.  It was in the 90's here so we're all looking MIGHTY tan!!

Abigail enjoyed her first set of fireworks (See pictures).  She literally watched them with her mouth open.  She was amazed.  We watched fireworks with our friends the Parans and it was a blast.  We grilled out ate, swam, ate again, swam, pretty much the whole weekend.  Abby played football with the boys

Our dear friends the Brokemas brought us chicken enchiladas so I got an evening off from cooking tonight!  That was SO SO SO nice.  We've just been going a hundred miles an hour the last 2 weeks!

Tonight Abigail got her nails and toenails polished.  She giggles through the whole things because it ticklers her so much.  Nolan didn't want to be left out so he got the smiley faces :)  Dad's not really excited when nail polish gets on his boy but he'll have to live with that. :)  And as for my toes, Nolan wanted the honor of polishing them.  I might not have enough nail polish remover to solve this issue but I love them because he and Abby both RAVED about what an amazing job he did!!!

Jason and I are just kicking back and enjoying life.  It really doesn't get any better than this!  We're anxiously awaiting our vacation to Minnesota in August for a week so my side of the family can meet Abigail.  We decided to meet there so it's not as far for everyone.  Nolan and Abigail can hardly wait to play with cousins.  We're also stopping in the Wisconsin Dells for the 3 of us to have some well needed vacation time of train rides, fishing and water slides!  We can hardly wait!  It's been almost 3 years since I've been home to North Dakota and even though we're meeting in Minnesota it feels good to finally be heading west.  I taught Abigail how to say OH YAH YOU BETCHA!  Nolan was so excited to hear the Mall of America has a Lego Land that we had to establish rules about how many times a day he's allowed to ask about it. :)  There is a limit of 7 times.

God is good in every way and we are praising him for this amazing time that we have together right now.   Jason and I were talking about our next adoption and our next trip to Africa.  We sure do miss Africa and are looking into options after retirement!  Abigail and Nolan both said they'll move with us and help kids. :)  It was cute.

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