Amelia, Dave and Grandma in SAN FRANSISCO!!

Dave and Grandma took Amelia to San Fransisco to attend the wedding of Frank and Susan.  Here's a review in pictures.

A tour of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) by the bride, Susan.  A great view of the Golden Gate Bridge. 

Amelia meets Darth Vader.  She's giving him a fist pump.

At Fisherman's Wharf - close to the hotel.

A tour of the aquarium at Fisherman's Wharf.

 Of course... a swim..



Grandma & Amelia all pretty for the wedding.

The bride and groom. 

The view from the wedding.

Sunday morning early drive to Muir Woods.

More Muir Woods

Sunday afternoon, a trip to tour Alcatraz.



Grandma and Amelia in jail!!

Memorial Day Weekend

Dave, Amelia & Grandma are in San Fransisco for the weekend for cousin Frank's wedding.   We've been keeping busy back here at home!  It's been unusually chilly here these past few days.

Saturday, we started the day out at Great Falls, MD. 

Then onto Arlington National Cemetary.  We were able to take the driving tour thanks to Andrew!

Ava drew a picture of her sisters and her best friends.  She REALLY misses Amelia. 

On Sunday, we partied at the 5th annual Kee BBQ. We were all loaded up in the car, when we discovered we were missing Pinky.  Thankfully Ava found Pinky!! 

We walked in the "Fun Walk" part of Anna's Epilepsy CURE Walk in Middletown on Monday morning.   

Played in the park afterward!

Can't wait to see Amelia & Dave, and hear all about their trip.  They'll be home tonight at dinnertime.

Handful

Jenna has been quite the "handful" these past few days... very much into making her own rules and doing her own thing... Here are a few examples.

This was this morning..... Jenna as "underwear ninja"...This was to distract the girls from getting dressed for school.

This was yesterday morning... Jenna has packed for and is taking Pinky to California with Grandma, Dad & Amelia.

As I went to send these photos to my computer tonight, I found over 30 photos on my phone that Jenna had taken of me today while I was at my doctor appointment.

The Weekend

Bike Riding Time!

Celebrating Amelia's Adoption Day with a happy cake and our friends, Erin & Eli - all the way from Ohio!

Amelia's 9th Adoption Day!

Dave holding Amelia in Guatemala the day after they first met.

May 2004 

Dave and Amelia today!



A Blog Post I Like...

Stealing this from my friend Melissa...

http://www.kathylynnharris.com/dear-moms-of-adopted-children/

My HUGE Lilac Bush and Jenna

Mother's Day 2013

These are my mother's day gifts!  Dave and the girls went to get donuts for breakfast and gave me a card.  My mom came up this morning. We went to church to watch Ava sing, came home to lunch and then took a drive to Grandma and Grandpa's house.  Happy Mother's Day!

A lesson from Ava

Ava came home from school with this today.

Spring Flowers again...

Catching up with photos!  These pictures were taken yesterday.

15 YEARS

Today, Dave & I are celebrating 15 years of married life.

Amelia's Chorus Concert "United We Stand"

Our family had an important performance to attend tonight!!  Tonight at Urbana High School we watched the Green Valley ES spring chorus concert.  Amelia did a great job! 

 Here are some pictures from the night. 

Amelia singing! There she is bottom row,second from the left, by the piano.

Dave during the concert.. sleeping...

Drew during the concert.... listening..

Jenna during the concert.... standing on the chair....

Amelia after the performance!  Her definition of "what America stands for" was chosen and was hanging for all to see at the concert.

What's New??!!

My computer crashed........... I lost everything!!!

Here's a summary (in photos) of our latest happenings.....

We went to a Frederick Keys game on Friday night April 26th.

The kids got to run the bases!

Ava and our tulips.

Amelia and those same tulips!

Amelia and Ava ran their first 5k "Run for the Rock".  Here they are coming in to the home stretch. 

It rained a lot while we waited for the girls to cross the finish line.

Here are the girls explaining to the guy at the finish line, that they "realy did run the race" even though they didn't have a number pinned on them.

Here we all are at the first "Run for The Rock" in Baker Park.

I took two pictures on my SOLO trip to Cerritos, California this past weekend.  This is a Bird of Paradise near the hotel.  I attended the LGS family support conference on a full scholarship!

Here's the civic center in Cerritos.  This was my view from my room.