Monday, August 11, 2008

Avery's First Beach Trip

This past week we visited our dear friends that we met in Russia on trip 2. We went to the beach on Long Island Sound and as you can see Avery was smitten with the ocean. She is a fish, but this was just 100% her element.
Don't ya just love my little seaweed monster!

Friday, August 01, 2008

My Wierd Family...







I am noticing a trend here... Do you see it?

Avery thinks she is a puppy and does this begging thing ALL the time. You'll notice in her pictures that even then she does it.

Then we have Ryan, who apparently is fond of channelling Prince. Every picture from vacation is the same little "pose". And seriously, if he knew I was posting this he'd DIE, so let's let this be our little secret ok, OK!

I don't know, I just thought is was funny that they both have ther signature pose for photos. lol


Now onto other things. We just got back from a big family vacation to the mountains. It was fun, interesting, but fun. I don't know what we were thinking, but all 16 of us went tubing down the river. For those of you who know her you will get that my mom is not the most coordinated person. She fell before she even got into her tube. It was quite a sight. The kids all had a blast. Except Avery who had a moment when we went through our 3rd or 4th stretch of rapids and she was on my lap instead of in her own tube. She begged me to make it be over and asked why we "did this stupid thing". Her hysteria was short lived and she would like to do it again sometime. Me, not so much... at least not until she is older.

In the 2 weeks we've been back we had another pre-service class for fostering and I had my individual interview for the homestudy. We will be gone next week, but Ryan will have his interview when we get back. Oh, and we only have one more class.

I started setting up the rooms and getting beds in order. I have far too many clothes left from Avery, and the shoes, well we just won't go there it is sinful!

Signing off for now. I promise to be more diligent about the blog!

Saturday, July 05, 2008

Back Online!

I've been offline for over a month now. Avery broke our laptop beyond repair. Finally I have a new one and can update you all.

We are nearly finished with our foster parenting classes. I am excited to think that we'll have a full house in the near future.

The next few weeks are going to be busy, busy! We have 2 trips planned and I'm looking forward to some time away.

There really isn't much to update, so until later...