Black Friday

Oh, isn't Black Friday so fun!! :) I know, some of you are thinking I'm crazy. Yes, we are all crazy! Especially those people who think pushing carts down aisles you can't even walk thru. Total nuts!!

But I got my stocking stuffers this morning. Most of what I walked out of the store with was for my mother. That's alright. My sister and I have good "quality" time together, if nothing else!! :)

Have a fabulous rest of the holiday weekend!

SO EXCITED to be sponsoring!!!

At this point, I really don't even remember for sure how I was informed of what was going on. Right now all that matters is we are a part of it!

The Bottomly's have done much work into getting an orphanage chosen for sponsors and it has been successful. They have twice as many sponsors as they have expected so far, and of course there is room for more!! What is even more fantastic about this and why I cried this morning is....the orphanage we are blessed to be sponsoring children, is one of the orphanages Mark and I were able to visit while picking up Addison. Kebebtsehay Children’s Home. I am absolutely elated to be a part of this...especially being there before and seeing all the beautiful children that are and will be affected by this wonderful group of sponsors!!

If anyone else is interested in sponsoring, PLEASE get ahold of Amy on the link above. Just a small, yet enormous, way to help out!

We have a court date!! It's almost official official!!

We got our call this afternoon regarding Addison's next court date. On December 18th, she will become an official US Citizen and be our official daughter according to the USA! It's a very exciting time right now for us and are happy to finally have that date. Now I need to finish writing my article for my MOPS group!! :-)

As the holidays approach we hope you all out there are blessed this season! Enjoy your moments and time with all your loved ones!

Halloween

Wow, I just realized it's been a bit since I last posted. Addison is 'almost there' in the walking department. She can walk at least half way across the room before falling down and clapping for herself. It's pretty cute! Caleb has been talking up a storm and so much clearer. That's nice, when I don't have my translator (Trevor) around if for some reason I can't make out what he's saying. :-) And Trevor has utterly impressed me so far in school. It has been a blessing (for more than 1 reason!) for him to be going all 5 days to preschool this year. It does him a great deal of good (and fun) as well as for his mother!! :-)

Anyway, onto the pictures!!!

Addison, my little bee

Caleb my clown
(not the best costume for him since he is kinda clutzy! but he did awesome this night! very proud mama!!)
Trevor my banana
And this is all of us. I was dressed as a hippie/disco dancer...whatever you wanna call me. And Mark, well, at this moment he was a Husker Fan. Earlier in the night (before changing) he was an irrigation salesman. Needless to say, Mark is a party-pooper when it comes to Halloween! :-)