All together

So we have nine of the ten children with us now; just waiting for Austin.

Sunday Mark and I drove to the east side of Wyoming to pick up Catelynn, Gabriel, Kaylee, and Nicholas plus the puppy, "Cheetoe" and the chinchilla, "Chinchy" who has now been renamed, "Chinchalada" because Gabe thinks it sounds better. Funny.

The trip was relatively easy and uneventful. We had one not-so-nice thing in Rawlins; we went into a gas station for a potty break and returned to our white van with some...well, "add-ons" in red ink to the hood and it was "colorful" if you know what I mean. Grrrr....thank goodness for Shaklee Basic H! I don't know what people are thinking. Oh well, now I know in a pich, Basic H will take enough ink of the hood of a baking car that you'll be satisfied until you can get some rubbing alcohol.

Mykayela did really well on the trip. She tolerated the day of driving so well. I'm impressed by our little miracle girl.

Mark is so different when all the children are together...much more at peace. He loves his babies so much! I wish they could all stay here all of the time.

Everyone is in love with Catelynn's puppy! Even the other dogs tolerate him. Cheetoe is short, fat, and solid black. He has a fun personality and sounds like a tasmanian devil.

We spent the last week getting ready for the other children; getting new furniture for everyone and rearranging things so they'd be comfortable, I think all-in-all they like it.

A few weeks ago a family in our church gave us a trampoline: Angels in heaven swelled in a unified chorus singing praises to the most high in sight of this wonderful deed! All of the children have been so happy jumping and bouncing there little hind ends off in shifts. I love seeing them work together and having fun.

We have been to the park twice now for lunch. There are some trees there with white blossoms that the children like to suck on. There's a sweet liquid they like to taste so they were attacking those poor trees and "sucking them dry" just as they did last summer. Crazy little people.

This weekend the girls and I are going to have a party for Eliana's birthday while the boys go camping. This house is going to be busting with girls...if I wasn't the Mom I'd probably run the the mountain with the boys! We're all going to have fun. The girls will be playing all kinds of games, having and Cookie Lee party, dressing up, telling stories, watching movies, dancing, etc...the boys will be roasting marshmellow, roasting hotdogs, and bring back fish to fry. Yeah, us!!

I love my family. Waiting for Austin and we'll be complete!

Love you guys!