Christmas = Family

Playing Disney Uno!

Jesus got a turtles birthday cake.

Random Family Pictures

We were fortunate to be able to have three of our adult children together for Thanksgiving, as well as our three youngest. We were missing two. And of course the child we are hoping to adopt is months away from coming home (if the state is even willing to work with us). Here are some of the more candid photos.

Thanksgiving Turkey? Or just Adam photo bombing?

The real turkey. There were actually two--one roasted and one fried. This is the fried one. It was amazing.

Adam, Tara, Kayla, Jasmine, Kaleb

Kaleb, Kayla, Jasmine

I used different filters on this. Not sure which I like best. What about you?

Holidays are exhausting.

River is happy to announce that her little sister, Winter Robin, is due April 11. They will be about 16 mos apart.

Vacation and Memories

Nothing builds memories like activities where you work together. Like rafting--and tubing. Especially when you go over waterfalls, get landed on by another tuber, lose your tube and bounce face first down the rocky river bed on your face. We have a lot of "war" stories from both rafting and tubing.

Our two families together have 20 kids, but not all of them were there. Two of Felicia's grandchildren were there,

Joselyn and I don't look too sure about this.

Ty and Jasmine were in this raft. Kaleb and I were in the other. Rick and Kayla were on their way. My other adult children couldn't come this time. But we hope to do this again.