Busy Busy

It has been crazy busy here!!
This past weekend we had cub scout stuff on Saturday. Danny and his fun with music class sang a song at a church on Sunday morning. Then a kid in Danny's class had a birthday party Sunday afternoon.
That is how you know your kid is getting older, they have more activities than you do :)
I had pictures, but can not find them on my netbook :(

This am the kids brought in their wrapped gifts for the families of the troops. For each gift they get a star for the tree with their name on it. The kids get to present the gifts at flag with the whole school watching.
Danny got to hang his two stars:

Victoria got to hang her two stars:

Then Victoria came home as she is not feeling good. A cold seems to be going around the school and Ms V is miserable! She was up 7 times last night!!!

On the adoption front we have ALL our paperwork done except immigration approval!!
(I guess doing 5 dossiers in the past 5 years helps?)
There is another family traveling this week to the same place and will give her hugs and kisses for us :)
We hope to see some new pics too :) :)

Check her out!!!!

Surprise!! PLEASE see the button to the right! Yes we are doing it again!!!! Any tax deductible donation is greatly appreciated!!! It will be used to help us with our incountry expenses. Any left over money will be donated to another Rainbow child looking for a home!
We will have more information as it happens :) The kids are SO excited!!

Camping

This past weekend was our first family campout with the cub scouts! We drove all the way over to Manatee Springs to the state campground. We saw so many deer in the state park right next to the road :) There were about 30 adults and kids all from the pack. Victoria even had a little buddy from her school there :)

Having dinner before we headed off to bed in the tent :)

we were all in bed by 8:30!

miss cranky pants all bundled up sat am watching a dvd

her hands were too cold to hold her cup herself :)

our campsite in the light of day! it was 51 this am!!


Breakfast Sat morning,pancakes, sausages and bacon! yum!

They even had propane coffee pots with DD coffee :)

Sat afternoon we walked all around the park, including the manatee lookout.
Fascinated by the turtles


If you look REALLY close you can see several manatees playing in the water


Playing at the gazebo, watching the manatees, turtles and fish


Danny running around the camp ground. He ran and played non stop all weekend :)

He only had to go to timeout once when he hit another kid on the head with a stick

taking a nap in the tent, tuckered out from all the playing


our little angel


The guys frying the turkeys:

There were 3 turkeys, but one was still frozen so we could not cook it up :(

We had our fried turkey dinner by the camp fire.

the fire kept us warm while we ate :)

Telling stories around the camp fire Sat night.

They even made s'mores!

Sunday morning it was 48 degrees!!!
We were up at 6:00, packed up and were on the road by 7:00 :)

So tired!! sleeping on the floor at nap time :)

Danny had so much fun. Victoria did too, just not in the morning!
We were all happy to be warm!

Happy Veterans Day!

Happy Veteran's Day to all those who have(are) served(ing) our wonderful country!!

Hubby is out with Danny walking all over a big navy ship :)

a big smile

All it takes is a new dress :)

Halloween!!

This is what nana's are for!! making halloween bat cookies:

The kids kept eating the batter and sugar and m&m's :)

The final product:


"pumpkins" Danny made in kids club - yum!


Pink hair and green hair!!


Tired after trick or treating!!

Pumpkin Patch!

Victoria's class at their first field trip! Pumpkin Patch!


Playing the old parachute game :)

The kids would get so confused from all the bouncing balls flying around

Making chicken soup:

The little ones got to do this several times. They really like throwing the rubber chickens around :)

Listening to the story of the square pumpkin


The kids all had a great time and candy was handed out at the end :)

Danny was sad that his class didn't go this year, 1st graders are too old :(

Last night was a bday party for danny's classmate at pump it up. The bday girls little sister is in Victoria's class and they are BFF's. The kids bounced and played for 1 1/2 hours!! I did not hear a peep out of them on the car ride home and they slept till 8:00am :) :)