A great fall Saturday

We’re still here….post-vacation life is just entirely too busy!

This weekend the big girls went to St. Louis for a Youth event and we had the boys from church come to our house for a lock-in. They played ping pong, went on a GPS treasure hunt and ATE. They ate an incredible number of pancakes for breakfast! They are REALLY good boys; we are blessed!

Today has been a wonderful catch up day for me. I’ve waded through mountains of paperwork and laundry! AnnaMaria took a 2 ½ hr nap WOOHOO! The guys are hunting deer. We have plans to eat Japanese Steak House before we pick the big girls up tonight at church. Yum!

For better or worse, we seem to have another new pet. Like six pets weren’t enough! As you might recall, Shorty, AnnaMaria’s kitty, just showed up on our property. When we were on vacation last week, Grandpa thought Shorty was going through way too much food. Well, as it turns out, Shorty has a friend, who we suspect is his sibling. He is wild and for now we are calling him Skeeter. Shorty and Skeeter have been fighting and it didn’t seem like a very good relationship. Jeff and I agreed that Skeeter had to find a new home away from here. But….this morning when I came down stairs, I looked out the window to find Shorty and Skeeter snuggling on a deck pillow asleep. They were so cute! I put the one pancake left from breakfast on the deck and Skeeter gobbled it up. Shorty didn’t want anything to do with it. He is already a cat food kitty! I’m beginning to feel a bit like a zoo keeper!

AnnaMaria’s birthday is the 20th! It is really hard to believe she is 2. We were watching her photo on the adoption agency website just a week or so after she was born. That seems like yesterday! Her birthday makes me wonder about her birth mother. I hope she is at peace and I hope she trusts that AnnaMaria is loved as much as she is. Somehow, I feel like she knows all is well. I love her; she gave us the most amazing gift!

We will go to Eli’s birthday party tomorrow. His first birthday in the US is sure to be big fun! AnnaMaria’s party is next weekend so stay tuned for photos.