Yum, Yum, Yummy :)

Today's lunch was a super, top 10, crowd pleaser, and I just had to share. I found this gem here.

"Mama, this is the best lunch ever!"

It's that simple and that fun!!

Have you heard the news?

Looks who's adopting!!!! You simply must meet this amazing family. I think you will just love them. I met Amanda in Ethiopia this past February, and we instantly knew we would get along...something about trying to keep everyone to the schedule...silly in ET I know. If you don't know her yet head over to introduce yourself.

Nine Years

This week, Brian and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. I love that I love my husband. What a dream life we have! We decided to celebrate in Busan with the kids, and it was delightful in too many ways. Brian had to work while we enjoyed the totally posh "work" hotel, and drank root beers pool side. I love that Myra's first trip to the breach was the East Sea - how cool is that?

Pool side - like I said dream "work" hotel :)!!!

Anniversary dinner - nothing better than celebrating as a complete family unit

After dinner beach walk with Myra on the back!! Brings back so many memories of little Noah on my back.

Myra started getting her first tooth last night and was not looking her best by the morning :(

Birth Mama

We had the opportunity to meet with Myra's birth Mama while we were in Ethiopia. We had a list of questions prepared to ask her. Questions about her health during the pregnancy, how long the pregnancy lasted, what the birth was like etc, etc. When we walked into the room where Aberash sat I folded up the list. All my questions just seemed to trivial and stupid. Here was the first mother of my beloved Myra. We shared openly from our hearts and praised Jesus together for our daughter. It was a blessing to meet her and to tell her of our shared faith. We are thankful for her love and pride of Myra.

I wanted to make something for Myra from the few pictures we were able to capture during that meeting. I found this artist on etsy.com, and she created these amazing treasures!!! She is going to print them on canvas in 10x10. I can't wait to get them in the mail!!!

Go check out her online shop...maybe you have a treasure that is waiting to be created??

Bought It

We decided on a curriculum for next year, and I can't wait to get started.

Our shipment is in the mail and should arrive sometime before August - the Army mail system sometimes (read always) takes forever. I have great expectations for our one hour a day of school work and Noah is thrilled to be a big school boy. So here's to our "last summer" before school.

Dinner

Dinner sucked tonight...

Noah looked up from his plate and told me to walk the plank

She's growing!