Happy Memorial Day!

We stayed in town for Memorial Weekend, but we found lots of fun things to do anyway. Friday night we had dinner with some of Kyle's relatives who were in town for a few days. It was so much fun catching up with them that we ended up going to their resort to hang out with them on Saturday, too. They stayed at the Arizona Grand Resort (the old Pointe S. Mountain). That place has an awesome little water park in it including some huge water slides, a lazy river with rapids, a giant wave pool, a regular pool and a kids pool and splash pad. It was a big hit with Gage and Brigg. I took Brigg on the Lazy river with me and the fam, but Gage wasn't interested in calmly floating around the pool so Kyle had to play with him in the wave pool most of the time.

For my birthday, my sister in law got me a ticket to the No Doubt/Paramore concert so that's where I was until 2:00am Sat night. It was an awesome concert and we had so much fun but it was hard to function the next day after only getting 3 hours of sleep (Brigg was up for the day at 5am).

Sunday after church we went to Kyle's mom's house to celebrate his step dad and brother in law's birthdays. Gage usually wants everyone to entertain him so we were surprised when he was outside nicely pulling his little cousin, Alexis around in the wagon. Maybe there's hope for him to become the "nice" boy someday. :)

Kyle had to work on Monday so I took the boys to Walmart (I know, we are so white trash). Then Chris and Michelle invited us over to swim and see their new house. They have the greatest backyard and it was fun to catch up with them. Their girls are almost exactly the same age as our boys, so if Gage can ever learn to be a little nicer (he has a major biting problem right now...anyone have any suggestions on how to end that??), it will be fun for them to play together.

Happy Late Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the great moms out there...especially my moms, Deborah and Carol. I am so grateful to be blessed with two amazing examples as I attempt to succeed at motherhood.

I love being a mom. It's by far the hardest thing I have ever done (both in procuring my little angels and in keeping them alive and well every day) and so far I haven't proven to be very good at it. But motherhood is definitely the most rewarding job I have ever had (no offense to my good friends at The Golf Club :). My kids can make me crazy one minute and crack me up or melt my heart the next.

Gage is learning to talk and has succeeded in mildly entertaining us in the process. The other day we were driving home in the car while Kyle drove home in the truck. Gage was devastated that he had to ride in the car with me instead of with daddy. He watched the truck out the window all the way home to make sure daddy was still driving next to us. In an effort to assuage his fears of losing his daddy when we made it through a traffic light that detained Kyle, I told him that we would be home with daddy soon. So for the entire rest of the ride home he repeated over and over again, "homo daddy", "homo daddy", "homo daddy".

Brigg is still such a sweet baby. He learned to roll over yesterday and has been perfecting his new skill every time I put him down (including during diaper changes). He's very vocal and "talks" very loudly whenever I am talking to other people. I am a pretty loud person so I think he feels he needs to compete with me for the attention by being louder than I am. Brigg has become absolutely smitten with his big brother. He won't nurse if Gage is in the room b/c he doesn't want to miss some great fun that Gage has conjured up. And he cracks up giggling every time Gage sings and dances for him. I wish I could get that on camera but Gage won't perform for the camcorder and Brigg is too interested in the red light.

Birth Mother's Day

Happy Birthmother's Day! We love Gage's sweet birthmom, Natalie and pray for her often. I want to write more, but have the flu so my brain is muddled but I wanted to commemorate the day and it's importance to us. We love birthmothers and are so thrilled that so many of our family and close friends have had the opportunity that we have to experience the miracle of adoption recently. Every time someone we know is united with their children through adoption, we feel a renewed gratitude for the role adoption has played in our family. I can't imagine my life without my sweet little firecracker, Gage and it was his birthmom, Natalie who made it possible for us to be his parents for eternity. We are so grateful!