weekend wrap-up

MississippiZen and Never Too Many
were both nice enough to award me with the Nice blogger award! I thank them both; what an honor to be awarded by two dear bloggers. I am humbled to be thought of twice. I love all of my blogger pals. I want to pass the award on to my blogger friend over at The Seventh Diamond. She is the ultimate in nice. She is so thoughtful. From hosting cyber babyshowers to telling us when a fellow blogger needs a shoulder. She definitely deserves the nice matters award.

We had a great weekend. Nothing really exciting, but just a nice peaceful weekend really. We did something we NEVER do; and took the kids to the indoor mall. They enjoyed it and went to the Disney store for a treat, as well as rode the carousel. You could tell I haven't taken Caitlyn many times. Her fun was to go up and down every escalator in the place 2 or 3 times each. Honestly, we have strip malls close by that have everything we need and never drive out to the indoor mall. We were just desperate for some indoor recreation of some sort, with the heat still raging here.

Today I had a WONDERFUL treat. I decided this year I was not really happy with the dance studio that Chloe has taken dance out the past couple of years and I have a blogger friend that I have never had the opportunity to meet in person, Laine Ferrill who lives only around 15-20 min away, recommend the studio her daughters take from. She loves it and knows the teacher well. I feel I know Laine already by reading her blog and felt if she liked it that much it would be fine for us. Chloe and I went to Open House today at the studio to register and Laine and her BEAUTIFUL family were there! It was so great to meet them. Kimmie and Quan have only been home from China a couple of weeks and I have seen SO many pictures of them and I had been looking forward to meeting them. Oh MY!! is all I can say. Seeing them made my heart leap for joy. They were SO precious. It made my heart long to adopt again. I so hope I get the opportunity to one day. Daddy to 4 treasures feels our family is quite complete.;)... I do pray though, that his heart would be turned to desire to adopt one more little girl. I would love to change my name to Mommy to 5 Treasures.:). Meeting Kimmie and Quan reminded me of the feeling I used get when I would go to the FCC functions while waiting for Caitlyn. I can't really explain it, its just this feeling that my heart isn't quite full yet I suppose. I look forward to getting together with Laine again, when I have all of my crew with me, after it cools down some and her little ones have had more time to attach to her.

The kids have done great with their first week of schoolwork. They are so positive and enthused about it. I have been tweaking the schedule to make it work for us. Caitlyn feels that Jacob and Chloe should NOT be ignoring her to work. She tries to drag them away and distract them and I found myself having to pick up every toy in the playroom that she poured out because of having no one to play with. The good thing is she is a late sleeper, and still a wonderful napper, so after trying to do some with her up this week, I am reconsidering and next week going to see if we can do 1 hour of our work before she even gets up. I think that will solve things for now.

I wanted some pics to scrap during my ME time and so I snapped these of Caitlyn over the weekend. I tried something a little different and made the background transparent. I think I like the look.