Foster Family gift!!

Happy New Year to us!

We received a package in the mail today from our adoption agency that had a gift from Boo's foster mother in it...happy day!!

She gave him a Christmas card that plays music and lights up when you push a button.  She also had three sticker sheets: Cars stickers, fish stickers, and one of the different flags of the world.  

Chris and I also got a written note in the card on the left (which is beautifully crafted!) with some details that tells us she truly remembers Boo and the time that he spent with her family.  We also found out that she continues to follow our blog to see his pictures...knowing that warms this mama's heart.  It's good to know that he is still loved and remembered by those who cared for him during his first year of life.  Hopefully someday the three of us can travel back to Korea and reconnect with this amazing, wonderful woman and her family.

Gamsahamnida for the Christmas gift!

대단히 감사합니다!

Birthday flowers

A surprise from my guys:

Early birthday flowers...same as my wedding bouquet.

Beautiful.

Christmas Crafts

Boo and I have had some fun making Christmas gifts for his teachers and a birthday gift for a friend of ours, whose nickname for him is her "little boyfriend."  She just enjoys playing with him when we go to their house and has even taken him out on a "date" to the movies!

Snowglobes for his teachers:

Glue and glitter...how much more fun can you get?!?!

Sweet, sweet boy!!!!!

Then we decorated ornaments for the birthday gift with...wait for it...more glue and glitter!!!

We did pretty well, though, and didn't get too messy.

The finished products:

It was so much fun!  And Boo loves to do crafts like this.  I just wish I was more creative and could come up with ideas more often.  Although I will say, I read about the ornament craft in a magazine a week after we did them...and I had come up with the idea on. my. own. while we were walking the aisles at the craft store!  Yeah, mommy!

Any other fun, quick, and cheap craft ideas???

Fun Stuff

Horsing around with Collin, who is so good at keeping Boo entertained!!

A note that Boo wrote to me on a day that I got home too late to see him before his bedtime.  He started writing it without Chris knowing, who only noticed when Boo asked him how to spell the word "from."  It says "Hi Mom. From Jason.  See you to___"  Supposed to say "see you tomorrow" but I think he got tired of writing.  But what a sweet thing to come home to after a long day at work!

In his new suit and tie before his holiday program for school.  He was absolutely loving that tie, the first one he's had.

Doesn't he look handsome and, oh, so grown up???

With his teachers and his reindeer antlers from the program.

We got a pretty good snow last week, about 7 inches, and the three of us took a walk that night while it was still snowing.  It was beautiful out and so quiet while we made new tracks through the snow.  After we got cold enough, we came back in and warmed up with some yummy hot chocolate!

Daddy and Boo (who was a big help!) started shoveling our drive and then went over to help dig a neighbor's car out of the cul-de-sac, where she got stuck after pulling out of her driveway.  Daddy was able to help push the car back into her drive and then they came back and finished clearing ours!

Busy boys!!

Boo was loving having his own shovel so he could be just like Dad.

Thanksgiving 2013

Cheese!

Look at those big brown eyes!

How cute is he in that hat?!?!

What are you up to??

Wish I knew what they were talking about!

Working in their workbooks from Grandma and Grandpa.

His first dog!

Ready for work!

Giving Grandpa some exercise and hugs!

2-on-1 snowball fight

Ganging up on their aunt

Stalking me with a snowball from the other side of the picture window

:-)

Snack time

All six boys sitting quietly (for the one and only time!) watching a short movie.

A pretty good picture of five of our six guys!

It was a fun, fun weekend.  Thanks, all!!!!

January - BVI trip

No, I haven't suddenly caught up in my posts and started blogging about what we'll be doing next month.  I'm talking about January...

2013.

Yep, almost one whole year ago.

Whoops!

I finally got fairly caught up with the rest of my pictures and had some time to photoshop the pictures from our trip to the British Virgin Islands that we took with two other couples this past January.  It was an amazing trip with some pretty incredible weather and awesome company, not to mention the yummy drinks that we tasted while we were there!  I'm not a huge fan of spending my vacation on a sailboat - which is what we did - but it wasn't too bad, although I could have done without the waves (big shout-out to my scopolamine patch which kept me from being nauseous the entire time!).

First night on the boat

Pulling out of the harbor

Our home for a week, the Pau Hana

Our next rental... :)

Sand Cay

snorkeling pictures

Marina Cay

Sunrise on North Sound

The boys with their frou-frou drink for the trip

Rita and Chris

Craig and Rebecca

Sarah and Fred

Sarah and Rita

The guys in the back said this lobster would probably cost about $100 for dinner!!

Our crew

me with a live starfish!

Dressed up for dinner on our last night

Beautiful sunset on our last night in the BVI's.

I have a ton of other pictures also...if you want to see more, let me know and I'll hook you up!