Happy  14th  Birthday Odin!

You have such a sweet, giving and loving spirit. 
Always ready to help and serve others.  
You are so excited to see what God's plan is for you besides serving in the  Coast Guard

 You have a hard time receiving things for yourself. 
 Always wanting to give to others. 
 Love where God has you.

lover of  marvel movies(Guardians of the galaxy vol 2 and Thor of The Dark World)
going to movies
 books, books, and more books, camping, his siblings wrestling, swimming, art, drawing,
playing football
cooking and baking
history
staying up late
music (70's and 80's) 
serving the homeless
driving in the dark
likes things very neat and orderly
can't wait to have a family some day
loves to serve others first
 passionate for the coast guard 
 You are a peace maker, a care taker and a grace giver.

Hoping he stays at a 15...there are some stores yet that carry them.
   Thank goodness he isn't picky!

A devoted Bronco fan...

wall cards..misspellings and all

this was crazy

lunch pick was corn dogs 

Jonah did the cake and it was AWESOME!!

Jonah did these print outs for everyone too..

games of choice are always fun and exciting for all

great job on the cards...fricken hilarious...love those baby cheeks

inside Jonah's card

Gabe drew Odin in the dark

thank you for all the gifts, cards and love

this is miah's...how great are these.

Thank you for all you do for our family

we love you Odin!

garden

this was so much fun doing the garden this year.  We made it bigger thanks to the muscle of the 2 biggest boys. They all love to help and had a blast cutting the grass out.
 We didn't seem to grow enough last year so we doubled the size.   

We introduced this little star to worms.  Not quite sure of those things yet.

they even brought music out to do the garden...we are a music family.  It is soooo good for your soul!

We planted beets, celery, kale, a couple different lettuces, tomato, watermelon, strawberries, zucchini, squash, and spinach.  We  will watch it grow and tend it with love and see what it produces!

Happy Monday!!

our life lately

When it's rainy and kids are crabby...make a tent and pop some popcorn.  The kids are good for awhile then. 

                                                                         Piles.  
                                  I'm a piles person.  
       Odin's taking after his mom.  He's going to make a
                             good husband some day.

Lunch time with daddy..

Cards for a dear friend's kiddo...love their drawings.

Thank you for the blessings Nancy...we greatly appreciate them.

I walk away for a few minutes and this little star was on Miah's watch.  

Abraham keeps moving chairs to everything and crawling on the counters.  

 

I can tell everyone is growing and eating more.  We usually make our own pizza but when we have the basic old frozen pizzas we have now graduated to 7-9.  Crazy how much kiddos can eat!

Our last field trip with our homeschool group to Camp YCoda.  It was so much fun for the kiddos.  They split up by age and had 1 group for the bigs and 1 group for the littles.  The bigs did rock climbing and some team building activities.  The little's did canoeing, learning about birds and camping and fishing.  

We believe this was a skeleton of a muskrat.  Crazy cool.  The kids loved inspecting it.

tons and tons of tadpoles

pure beauty...

  

hope you are having a great week

hard to find the time to get on here right now

lots going on over here

we'll give you more updates soon

thanks for checking in on us in our little world.

Gift of Adoption

 What an amazing night. We were able to share our adoption story with a lot of great people who support Gift of Adoption and we got to meet Green Bay Packer Ty Montgomery too!
 God is good!

It was held at the Hyatt in Milwaukee which is a beautiful hotel. The kids loved it and everyone was so nice. We met some wonderful people and the local news interviewed us about our adoption. Then before dinner we got to meet Green Bay Packer Ty Montgomery. He was so nice and took photos with us and the kids. After the dinner, Ty spoke about his family and then they had an auction to raise money for the program. It was a great night and we were blessed to have been invited.

http://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/green-bay-packer-ty-montgomery-speaks-out-for-families-that-want-to-adopt

The camera man was having a blast with these guys..we can pretty much wrestle anywhere.

everyone got a bundt cake at the end..

Thank you for the awesome night!