Saturday, October 16, 2010

Mia absolutely loved trick or treating this year. What's not to love......ding dong, trick or treat, thanks for the candy

Can you tell things have been crazy busy as usual? It's been too long since I posted!
Since Scot has to travel again this month and wouldn’t be here for Halloween, we had Mia’s party early. We had a Halloween Party for Mia and her friends from school and dance class. She was so excited and had a great time; they were all so cute dressed in their costumes. We plan on doing this every year.

It was very different than last year, she didn’t know what Halloween really was but liked dressing up like a little Lady Bug This year Mia knew just what she wanted to be…Ariel, The Little Mermaid Princess.

She had a few weeks of celebrating Halloween, she had a great time at her party, her school party, trick-or-treating at the mall and playing games/trunk-or-treating at our church’s fall festival. After Halloween at Church we headed home to meet Daddy, he was just getting home from his trip.




 

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Our first family 5k Run/Walk

Before the race...7:30am

We did the Johhny Casa 5k Run/Walk today at SML and had a great time. Mia was excited to do this and was ready to run! She started out strong with running and walking, I had to beg her to ride in the stroller so we could catch up with everyone. She did great, and yes, she finally decided to take a ride but wanted to finish the race on her feet- Go Mia!  We are making this race an annual event for us.
After the race with our friend Kim.


Thursday, September 9, 2010

MIA'S FIRST YEAR, February 2009 - February 2010

I had this done back in March and I am just getting around to posting it...life has been busy and now im trying to catch up.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Check out my first book...It's finally done!

I made a book of our Blog/Jouney bringing Mia home from China. I had it printed and just got it back:)

Monday, February 15, 2010

1 Year Anniversary

A perfectly heart-filled Valentines weekend

February 15th marked the one year anniversary of the day we were handed the most amazing little girl we could have dreamed of, also known as "Gotcha Day" in the adoption world. This has been an amazing first year with our little sweetie! She has brought unexplainable joy to our lives thus far, and we look forward to many wonderful years ahead to love her and show her what a precious gift she is!

Today we had a small party for Mia to celebrate her special adoption day. She had one candle to blow out on her cake (the cake had a picture of her sitting on the famous red couch at the White Swan Hotel in China). Before eating cake, she opened a few gifts, and later we went outside and released one red balloon—In memory of her birthmother to remember her and the magnificent gift she has given to us. We can never thank her enough for bringing this special girl into this world, and we can never thank God enough for bringing this special girl into our family! We are so, so blessed!!

A few pictures from our celebration

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Happy Birthday Tigger!!!



I told Mia it was Tigger's birthday today. The next thing I know, she is getting party hats out of the pantry that were left over from another party.Then she tells me that we are having a party for Tigger...So we did! She had a great time and I think Tigger did too:)