Birthdays

I've been spending more and more time praying for our child who isn't with our family yet. I think a lot of it has to do with having a birthday, Thanksgiving and now Christmas coming up so close together. It's a time of year where I really enjoying having as much of our family around as we can and we have a child that is not with us and that's hard to think about. So, I do what I can and I pray. I pray for our child's safety and that God will protect her heart and help prepare her to live with our family and leave the only home she's ever known and come live in a strange land with strange people. Lord willing, by this time next year our child will be living with us and we'll be celebrating birthdays and holidays together!

I thought I'd post some pictures or our 3 kids here at home and their birthday celebrations from this last year. It's fun to see how different and unique their personalities are and how that comes out in celebrating their birthdays.

C's birthday comes first in June. He always has a sports birthday, he just always needs to pick a different sport every year. This year it was soccer.

He does love his super heroes!

S's birthday is next in July. She typically has had some sort of animal birthday every year, but her passions have changed a little this last year and she went with a President's birthday party. Everyone had to dress like someone from the period of the Revolutionary war to the Civil war and then they had to give clues so people could guess who they were.

  

 Her whitehouse cake with all the presidents on it!

C-Girl kept changing her mind about what kind of cake she wanted. (I know shocking for a 2 year old to not be able to make up their mind) She finally decided on a Hunter cake (our dog).

She lost her nose!

There it is!

Fun with the tongue!