Spring is here!

Soooo happy about this! We went on a nice walk yesterday around the neighborhood. Then Camille was able to work in the flower gardens, yippee! Then for dinner we made dutch oven potatoes and chicken mmmmm. What a great and sunshiny day. Zippitee doo da, hahaha

Family dinner date

We went on a family date night to sizzlers a few weeks ago and our sister Tami came and said hi. That was a great surprise. She was there with her sisters and her twins birthmom. It was wonderful seeing them and getting to meet the birthmom, whom is planning on blessing them with another baby :), she is very nice and happy. We love birthmoms' they are blessings from Heaven.
Adoption has brought many miracles to our family. We think often of Max's birthmom, whom we are in contact with, she has blessed our lives greatly with the gift of our son. He is our sunshine and a great joy to us.
We have heard of a birthmom who is thinking about us....and we thank you for that. We pray for you daily and hope that you are doing well.

Max turns 7

So, these pictures are a bit late....he turned 7 in January. I know I am a big slacker. Anyway we had a party for him, with some of his friends. For the past few years he has really wanted to have a pinata but alas January is usually too wet and cold....but this year he got his wish! They had a great time smashing up a fire truck. He also got to invite his crush to his party, last year was an all boy one and he was greatly upset that she could not be there. Max got a huge cuddly dinosaur and of course transformers. He wanted to eat a cupcake at his party so we saved his cake for the next day. He had the choice of eating out or at home. Of course he chose eating out and Wingers was where he wanted to go. When it came to cake time we sang and he blew out the candles. He was very carefully eating his cake....so mom just had to help him a little ;)

Max was Mr. Incredible for Halloween.....he was cool and tough. He made quite the mess with the finger-painting on the table and then grandpa gave him the idea of putting hand-marks on the window....that was fine until he started to splat on the window and the paint got all over the walls and ceiling and some on the curtains. It took some scrubbing to get it all off, Max did not enjoy that part so much. Christmas came and we all had a great time. Dinner and parties at families' houses and of course Santa came to visit. At the ward party Max got to sit on his lap and Max was astounded at how soft his beard was! He stared at him for quite some time. Max loves his legos that he got, he and Camille build lots of houses and trucks with them. Brandon got a fireman figure that was a surprise for him, he is happy to have it. Camille got lots of chocolate....of course it did not last long :)

Found some more fun pictures of things that we did in 2010. Sadie enjoying the few leaves that were on the ground after Brandon raked them up. Max and Sadie played in the sprinklers a few times and that was fun. Max took a picture of Brandon up at camp bartlett by the lake and he looks handsome. Camille and Max went to the fair, Brandon was working this day, and they got to ride on the merry go round. Max also got to go down the slippy slide on a potato bag he thought that was a blast.

On this day we visited Brandon at the fire station. We played badminton in their indoor court, that was certainly a lot of fun. Max and Camille went on a call with the firemen and Brandon drove the fire engine. When Max was about 3 he was very scared to ride in the engine going lights and sirens but this time he really enjoyed it. Max took pictures of us sitting on the back of the fire engine, of course the only one that was not blurry was the goofy one :) Also Max sat in the back driving section of the tiller truck and pretended to drive. What a great little firefighter!