CANDY CANDY CANDY

Is Glutiny still one of the seven deadly sins? If it is i think that all of us in our house are probably headed streight to hell. This is the kids haul from last night. this is 4 yes i said 4 GALLON sized ziplock bags FULL, that isn't including the dozen or so bags of chips and corn nuts they got. Ug. We didn't even trick or treat for that long. I love candy more then your average bear. we are sugartarians after all but even for me thats alot of crap. im sure alot of it will end up in brownies or cookies and go to work with brian. All the guys at the site can look foreward to putting on five or twenty pounds, better them then me is all i have to say.

HALLOWEEN FUN!!!

We worked hard on our jack-o-lanterns. We even got a pumpkin for Ellie, hers is the princess on the end. if your curious they are arranged by age with grandma on the end with her great pirate pumpkin.The Kids had a blast picking out there costumes at the halloween store. We call the costumes quirky, Kyleigh is a gaisha, connor is a jedi warrior but he insisted on carrying the Criptonite I'm not sure if the combination creates some sort of superhero continuium rift. who knows what michell is but he looked cool and was very comfortable. We had a ball trick or theating with some of the neighbors. and were home early enough to be in bed by 8:30. wow Happy halloween!!!!!

Ellie's Quilt!

We finally Hung up the ABC quilt that i made for our Ellie. i found these really great quilt hangers on ebay for something like $16. I love this quilt pattern its the second one ive made and i love it. for anyone who is a quilter out there or might be looking yes i know that i put the z where the n goes and vice versa i am calling that "charm".

cookies!!!

Well, this was my evening. there are 40 something of these witch either makes me one cool "Betty Crocker" mom or an idiot, you decide. I also had a great chat tonite with a warm wonderful BTDT adoptive mom who was very kind to share her prospective with me. she gave me some great leads and im sure ill spend the next few days following up on them. in the mean time Mitchell has a halloween, oh i mean "harvest" party tomorrow, jez being PC is no fun but what are ya gonna do about it. Have a great weekend.

Our girl has grown!

Well the wonderful ladies of AGCI have come through once again. and we got an update on Ellie. No photos yet, can you tell im dissapointed? but Hopefully one will come soon. We did get new measurements. Our little girl is up to 25 pounds up about 2 pounds since april. She is roughly 35 inches tall. thats up about an inch. she also has 4 more teeth. i know this isnt much info but we grab onto what we can get and hope that our TA comes soon. here's a semi recent pic from a friend who went to get her Bengbu beauty a few monthes ago.Ellie is the tall one the other sweetie is Mira McCalmont, she is hope with her forever family already. thanks so much beth for the photos.

EVERYBODY LOVES NEW JAMMIES!!!!!
Thank you Grammy and Grumpa for the new pjs. Let the winter begin!!

MY DAY

I had fun at Babies R Us today. finally picked up Ellie's car seat. its FAA approved and everything. man am i skilled. our dossier is being submitted to the CCAA today, so there is another step down. we cant wait to go and bring our little girl home but we have given up controle and realize that it will all happen according to Gods calender and not ours.
off to pick up the neglected middle child from school. God Bless-kathy