Today Is My Birthday

I had a really great day.  Thanks everybody for wishing me a good day!  I also enjoyed the gifts as well ;)  So far 26 is pretty good.

Adoption Rocks

Pretty much every adoption story is amazing, though bitter sweet.  Here are some links with amazing stories of people saying "yes, Lord use me".  The most recent just adopted twins last night!

Twins!

Downs!

Baby #1!

Behold

We went to the art museum and Kadin noticed someting in this painting. What he noticed made the painting the best painting in the whole gallery.




It seems this distinguished fellow depicted above also had a fondness of my favorite animal... the squirrel.

Mya Is Here

Mya Marie was born today!  She is 6 lbs 13 oz and  21 inches. Jackie was in labor for six hours and only pushed for twenty minutes.  Everybody is doing great.  Lauren and I enjoyed visiting them.  However, we were a little bit fanatical about exercising.  We decided to multi-task and exercise at Good Sam. We ran up and down the stairs, did jumping jacks and jogged in the parking lot.  All in all, we got to see an adorable baby girl and did some cardio.  Woo Hoo!

Oh Yeah...

Isaac can crawl.

Update

There is much to blog about. First off, I got my hair colored by my "apprentice". With a little coaching, Lauren did a rockin' good job on my hair. I was so excited and she was too. She had on an apron and everything. She looked like a stylist. I love it!

Secondly, Nicole had a birthday! It was soooo fun because of two primary reasons... We saw the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and we had Cold Stone! The movie was almost as good as the ice cream. Birthdays are good. A little birthday shout out to Charlotte, Don and Malakai. Hope your birthdays are/were as good as Nicole's.

Thirdly, Jackie is at the hospital, as I blog, hoping to deliver Mya! Please pray for her. I can't wait to see little Mya.

Fireworks

Last night, a bunch of us went to the WEBN fireworks.  I hadn't been since I was in high school.  We watched from the Kentucky side.  The display was pretty spectacular.  The best part was hiking to find a prime location. I was impressed with Jackie (due any day now) climbing up giant grassy hills.  I told her if that doesn't induce labor, I don't know what will.  We played a big game of swap, which Crystal still swears she won.   It was Kadin's first time to see the fireworks and he seemed to enjoy it.  I think he liked playing with earplugs the best.