Slumber party shenanigans

Hannah turned 8 last week and for her celebration she wanted to have her first slumber party!  She had 5 sweet little girls over and they had a great time eating pizza, painting nails, doing face masks on each other, eating ice cream, doing karoke and watching a movie. They stayed up until 11 which I though was pretty good (I expected them to be up much later!) and then we fed them breakfast and called it a success!

Sweet guitar baby

It's getting real!

We are excited to say that today we received our letter of approval from China! This says that we have been approved to adopt Eli.  A super exciting point along this journey!  Now to start the processing of arranging travel, obtaining visas, immigration approval and then packing! We leave in 9-12 weeks to go get our boy!

Happy last day of school!  These girls are saying goodbye to kindergarten and 2nd grade!

Dancing Girls!

The girls both had their dance recitals this weekend.  They worked so hard in dance this year and really made a lot of progress!  Reagan took ballet/tap combination and performed a tap routine and Hannah took ballet and modern dance.  They are super excited about dancing again next year!

Opening day at the pool!

Ben's Birthday

Sweet little guy turned 3 a couple weeks ago!  Can't believe my little baby is getting so big.  He was SO excited about his birthday this year.  All he asked for was a "big crane" and a big crane he got!  We ate Mexican (of course) on his birthday and then had a little backyard party for him with his neighborhood buddies and a bounce house.  This little boy thought turning 3 was pretty awesome!

Down on the Farm....Again!

I so want to be a farm girl.  My happiest dream would be to have a pretty little house sitting on a big piece of land and have all my little barefoot children around me, possibly homeschooling, sending the kids out to feed the chickens and collect the eggs, riding our horses....but alas, we live in a suburbs and for now I will have to be satisfied with a day visit out to the country!  And it is spring time so that means strawberry picking!  We were so happy that daddy got to join us this time as we visited Warbington Farms again.  We picked strawberries, held (and fed!) baby goats, took a "hey" ride and played on the old-fashioned playground equipment.  A pretty perfect day!

Playing Catch Up...

 The end of the school year is SO busy!  We have been enjoying the beautiful Georgia spring and struggling through the last few weeks of school.  Can't wait for summer time!  Here are a few pictures from spring!

 Ben had his first visit to the dentist.  He was such a big boy!

 Lots of mud to play in!

 Hannah lost her 8th tooth!

 Ben and I joined Reagan on her kindergarten field trip to Cagle's Farm