New Hobby

I know I have said it before, but I LOVE this weather! Elyse and I have been outside everyday, and not only does she nap better, but she's so much more happy throughout the day when she's outside. Well we spend much of our days at parks, walks or doing the following activity below. As you can see, Elyse has become a mini soccer player. She really enjoys kicking a ball all over the place. I do have to apologize that I was only able to capture the end of her soccer practice, so sorry it's so short.

Chilling...

...barefoot in my SUMMER capris and loving it!!!

Mother-Daughter Weekend

This past Friday and Saturday, Elyse and I headed to my mom's to have a mother-daughter weekend. It was so relaxing and something I will remember always. Us girls have never had 30 straight hours just us together, in fact, Elyse and I have never slept away from Nate until Friday. Since the weather was perfect we were outside almost the entire time. We spent much of our time going to garage sales, talking, going on walks, going to the pond to feed the ducks,
going to the park,
and playing in water.
I had a wonderful time and look forward to doing it again real soon.

Now you may ask, why were we down there? Well that's because my wonderful husband and some of his really great friends (Kris, Seth and not pictured, Matt) came to help Nate install our wood floors. It looks beautiful, they did a GREAT job. You can see from the picture below just a small glimpse of the final result, but I'm not posting the entire thing until the carpet, furniture and railings are finished, sorry ;)

T-shirt Says It All :)

That's right, Elyse is going to have a baby BROTHER coming late July to early August! We are super excited!!!

Please continue to pray for the birthmother, Lily as well as us three. We are daily asking God for prayer with patience, trust and contentment with this adoption. There is a lot more fragile issues involving this adoption than Elyse's, but I really believe it's what's making us pray for this little boy daily. Otherwise, I feel as if I specifically would sit back and just take it lightly since I have already been through one adoption process. However, just like a pregnancy, nothing is the same, and God is in control.

Sum it up, God is so gracious, amazing and loving; and I praise Him so much for our soon to be here son!

Mother's Day Weekend

This past weekend, Nate, Elyse and I headed south to Iowa to visit Nate's family. His brother, sister-in-law and thier kids were in town visiting from New Mexico. We had a wonderful time and it was nice to see everyone at one time. We spent most of the weekend watching the kids play, playing cards, eating great food and talking. Only down sides were that it just went by too fast and we only got a handful of pictures.

Since we were in Iowa or in the car, I never got to wish all you mom's a Happy Mother's Day. Therefore, Happy Belated Mother's Day!

Belated Birthday Gift

Last night Nate finally received his birthday gift (December birthday) from Elyse and I. Since we have moved into this house that has only two garages, Nate has always wanted a shed for storage and getting things out of the garage that are dangerous for Elyse. Well it finally arrived and the joy, smiles and the look in Nate's eyes were worth every penny.

Demolition Weekend

This past weekend, turned out to be demolition weekend for Nate and I. Friday night we spent the night ripping out our wood railings which we will be replacing with iron. We then spent most of Saturday reaping out our wood and linoleum floors to soon be replaced with solid wood in two weeks. Why do it so soon? That's because we are heading to Iowa this weekend and so it was the only free day we had.


I will post a before and after when it's all done; but until then, we will be walking on our runways (random carpet pieces) through the kitchen and entry way.