Christopher is 11!

 Christopher turned 11 this week! It is hard to believe, we feel like he was born just yesterday when we were living in Virginia. He is as tall as me and skinny as a rail. He wears a size 5 shoe and I think he is constantly on a growth spurt.

We had a blast at his birthday party last Saturday at Western Bowl. He wanted everything camouflaged!

 Western Bowl was a great host, they did everything for us and kept the party going. We chose to bowl at the start of the party.

James Henry

Makayla

Deacon

David getting some attention and play time

Christopher

Christen

the whole party gang

final scores

 After bowling for an hour we went and had pizza and cake then he opened presents.

Dr Who book and coffee mug from Christen

GameStop gift card from Deacon

GG and Papa John gave him money and a recipe book with all the ingredients to make Snickerdoodles.
He loves to cook with his GG.

Legos from mom and dad

eating pizza

 Making a wish and blowing out his candles

cake time

 We also took the kids to the arcade and played video games.

 It was a really great party!
On his actual birthday on Tuesday we made him breakfast in bed.

 He opened his gifts from us..a Nintendo 3DS and a game.

 and his present from Nonna, 2 new DS games.

 He picked where we had lunch and he chose Sakuri, it's a hibachi where they cook in front of you.

mom and the birthday boy 

onion volcano

eating his yummy birthday lunch

We spent the rest of his birthday shopping for school shoes, spending his birthday money and that evening we actually went bowling again with our Buckner family.

PawPaw Roland and Grandma Dawn came by and spent some time with Chris and bought his gift since they were going to be traveling during his birthday.

more Legos!!

We sure love our 11 year old, he is a blessing!!

David's First Birthday

Last night we celebrated David's first birthday!! This year has been a wild, amazing, blessed ride. 

And boy, it has flown by!

We just had a small family party since this blessed little boy had an adoption shower and party already this summer. 

We went with a Sesame Street theme and lucky me, my sweet friend Rachel had the same theme a few months ago for her son and kindly shared her decorations. 

David's smash cake...

 First birthday cake...

the plate we made at Brush With Art 

 The birthday boy....

 GG made his shirt...

 He actually got into the present opening.

 A card, money and a crown from Meme and Pop

 Money from GG and Papa

 lullaby Elmo from Nonna

 Toys and More toys...

 Testing out and playing with his new toys

 Then came time for cake. He did not need any help diving into his smash cake. It was hard for me to keep him out of it when the candle was lit.

 First hands in....

 getting more adventurous....

 He loved sharing with James and I, he thought it was so funny. The look on his face was priceless!

 Sweet baby really digging into his cake. ...I believe he would have kept eating it if we hadn't stopped him and headed to the bath.

 His PawPaw Roland and Grandma Dawn came by and loved on him and dropped off their gifts early since they were going to be out of town.

 This morning he did some shopping with his birthday money!

We had such a fun evening. James grilled a wonderful dinner and we enjoyed celebrating David.
We are so thankful God chose us to be his parents!