Sweet pictures from our last update. Eli, we are coming for you real soon!

Orlando trip

A couple days after Hannah's birthday we ventured down to Orlando to visit my family. It was a short but fun visit and my first time in a while driving by myself with all 3 kiddos. The drive down was okay but the drive back home was pretty terrible. The kiddos were all grouchy and ready to be home and out of the car! While we were down there we went to the beach for the day and visited the Crayola Experience which was pretty cool. Ben really enjoyed hanging out with "grandfather". We were cracking up hearing him keep calling dad that! We got to see my grandma too and hang out with its my sisters. Hoping we can visit with them all again soon!

Happy 8th birthday to our wacky, smart, sweet girl. We love you!

That's our girl on top. She's gearing up for her first season cheerleading. Pictures in her adorable uniform soon to come!

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!