Wednesday, November 10, 2010

October 2010

Well I have really been a slacker when it comes to this blog. I'm not even going to give any excuses or promise to get better!!! It is what it is!!!
October brought Fall Break - YEAH!!!! So we took off to see Darci's big sister in St. Louis and I had all 3 of my gals together. Talk about a happy momma!! My heart was grinning from ear to ear!! Here are some pictures.











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Monday, June 28, 2010

Reunion time

This past weekend we got together with our travel group for a reunion. It was so much fun visiting with our travel buddies from our China trip. Thank you R & A for hosting the weekend. It was so much fun watching the little ones get to know each other. Our annual reunion will be something I look forward to each year. It is so hard to believe it has been a whole year since we got these precious little ones. Where does the time go?? We spent so much time waiting and waiting and waiting and here a year goes by and it seems like a quick blink!! Enjoy the pictures!!!

My travel buddies, just missing one =(



Feeding lorikeet's



Feeding the rabbits with a friend



A new friend!!!



Sand anyone??



Catching up!!



Gifts, Gifts and more gifts!!







FRIENDS!!!!





All 5 families



Saying goodbye =(





Sunday, January 3, 2010

A look back at 2009

In January Brian's aunt passed away and we headed back to Illinois for the funeral. Brian's grandfather was ill and had been diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Such a sad month, however on the 30th Brian and I celebrated 27 years of marriage.

Brian and his grandfather (Sadly his grandfather died in April)



This visit also gave us the opportunity to visit with family members that we had not seen in quite sometime.

This is Brian's brother, sister-in-law and niece



Since we were back in Illinois we got to spend some precious time with Kayla




February rolled around and I had a surprise birthday dinner for Brian. You see Brian is very hard to surprise. He always guesses his presents before he opens them and he is always right. So for me to pull this off was quite a feat. He dropped me off at the door, I had already planned for everyone to be there before we got there. Amanda coordinated everyone at the restaurant. When he came in since he found me waiting he thought that maybe I had not lied to him and there was no birthday surprise. So we walked over to the table where everyone had menus in front of their faces and then all said "Happy Birthday" he was quite shocked!!! I finally scored!!! It was a wonderful evening with wonderful friends!!!







March brought our 3 year wait for Darci. It was painful but we knew that April would bring our referral and Darci's face we would see.

April we finally have our referral and what a beautiful daughter God has granted us.





Seeing her precious face for the first time



Darci turned a year old on April 11 and the girls I work for held a birthday party for her.





Since I was in waiting mode I decided to run in the OKC Marathon. No I did not run a marathon!!!! I ran with a relay team. I ran one of the 5K legs and it was so much fun!!!

My first marathon



The back of the shirt that I designed



Our relay team



May brought travel approval, I had called our agency on the 27 and there was no word, but May 29 brought a wonderful birthday present for one of the mothers in our group as we received TA. We would leave for China around June 10 or 11.

June - We left the airport on June 10 to travel all the way to China to get our precious Darci.









Getting Darci



On US soil!!!



July is spent meeting relatives for the first time.

Meeting me big sister Kayla.



Meeting grandparents. (Brian's mom was in the hospital, so we don't have good pictures of her first visit with them)



Meeting aunts, uncles and cousins.









August brings Mom going back to work and Darci going to childcare. Growing, playing and going to a kiddie park for the first time.









September brings more growing and grandpa and grandma come for a visit.





October brings a trip to Silver Dollar City, the pumpkin patch, first weiner roast, Halloween and one cute pumpkin.





















November brings tagging our Christmas tree and Thanksgiving (no big dinner this year!!!)











December = Darci becoming an offical "Roberts'" and CHRISTmas



























What a year!!! Cannot wait to see what 2010 brings!!