On our way home !

Had so much fun at RMH



Gerri is always amazed when she meets other kids with AMC :)

Here is her left foot, she is walking on the outside of her foot



They love the tree and train set at Shriner's


Luckily I remembered the pain reliever before casting :)

They did her height and weight and OMG!! She has grown 6 inches and gained 8 pounds in the last year!!!


She is trying to remember how to get around in her wheelchair :)

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Made it!

We stopped in CT for lunch at Bertucci's :)



Made it to RMH oh Philly in time to watch the Pats WIN!!!!!!



Then the girls played in the play area ;)



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On the road again!

Just fueled up, ready to get on the road and head to Philly!


You can't see it, but Gerri's wheelchair is in the back :(
We are casting her stubborn left foot in preparation for surgery in January to remove her hip hardware and do scar tissue releases along with some other releases to hopefully gain back the ROM she lost with her last hip and ex fix surgery.
Understandably Gerri is very upset about losing her mobility as am I, but hopefully it is short term.
I am in charge of the big picture as hard as that is to explain to an 8 yr old :(
But we hope to see some AMC friends too :)



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feeling a little bit like Christmas!

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In honor of a beautiful little boy :)

As many of you know I am the stateside helper for Reece's Rainbow, it has been my way of paying it forward for almost 3 years now. I work with families from the time they commit to the time they come home with their treasures. I have helped hundreds of families and am honored and blessed to call them all my friends. I have met a few in person but mostly are via phone calls, emails and messaging.

One of my families lost their precious bundle of joy way too early.

He was blessed with a loving, amazing family for 14 months.

Today the family is doing the unthinkable, burying their beautiful sweet baby boy.

Many of us in the RR and the special needs adoption community have been praying and holding this family up as they do the unthinkable. 

Henry you were SO loved by all of us!!

Rest in Peace Sweet boy!

We are all burning candles in his honor!

We all love you Henry!!

Happy thanksgiving ya'll!!

we had a great day! the weather was beautiful and everyone came over for a big dinner

Auntie Denise had crafts :)

how much fun!!

homemade acorns!! :)
chocolate kiss, vanilla wafer and butterscotch bit with frosting "glue"

 everyone was hungry and I didn't get any pics of the food or the gathering :)

Uncle Mike helped get the last of the meat off the carcass

I did get pics of the desserts :)
Auntie Carla was guarding them all :)

Katie made yummy home made apple cider caramel

Nana claimed the carcass

 Today was a day off so we relaxed for a bit and then headed over to Auntie Carla's to help:

Did a lot of raking and bagging :)

Ended with some jumping :)

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Day!!

Painting!! :)

so last Friday hubby and I were at the range shooting (I won!) and I mentioned going to home depot for paint for the kid rooms, we have been promising them that we would some day paint their rooms.
so we went and bought paint and headed out to lunch. hubby looked at me and said you can't wait to paint can you!?!?! :)
so guess what we did all weekend :)
we did Danny's room on Friday:)

He was SO happy!! a real big boy room!

Saturday am Danny and his cub scout pack collected pies for the food pantry. In 4 hours they collected 245 pies! $100 check and $700 in cash for the food pantry!  

 Then it was time for the girl's room!! I spent the whole weekend! a big part of it was getting all their stuff out of their rooms and sorting into keep, donate and trash piles. OMG!!

Victoria's rosey pink side!!

their pink tree :) (and a little bit of separation)

Gerri's purple side!!

spread out their dressers, the space in between now has  toys :)

The kids spent an hour just sorting their my little pet shop!

and no matter how much I told them NOT to touch the paint.........

Monday am at work I was SO sore I could hardy lift my arms or get up and down from a sitting position, but their rooms look awesome!