Welcome Home Mr. Lance!

We are so HAPPY that Mr. Lance is home from his deployment!

The girls surprised him with a welcome home banner and cake.

We had dinner with Mrs. Nyx, Mr. Lance and Jude to celebrate a late Christmas with them.

The girls LOVED the cool styling heads that they both got!

Jude liked this Shake n' Go Race Cars!

Mr. Lance was a little scary in the Nacho Libre wrestling mask that Clay got him for Christmas!

Babysitting

This afternoon we got to babysit this little cutie while his mommy went to the lab to get an official pregnancy test done. He just turned one and his mommy found out that she is expecting another baby.

Silly Madison enjoyed entertaining him while he was here.

When he left Madison informed me that she wants a little brother! ;)

Holly the Hamster

What a fun week we have had getting to know our new little pet!

We discovered that Holly LOVES eating carrots for a special treat!

She is also a little HOARDER!

She likes DRIVING pink carriage!

Holly is having FUN exploring her cage and tunnels!

Because of Isaac!

As we approach the 4th Anniversary of Jocelyn's Gotcha Day, we are reminded of what a blessing adoption is. Therefore I am excited to introduce the new ministry...

Because of Isaac!

After years of infertility, our dear friends John and Wendi were able to start their family in 2008 through the miracle of adoption. The Lord has given them a burden for other childless couples who want to adopt, but are not financially able. They started Because of Isaac to help those couples.

Feel free to check out their website (www.becauseofisaac.org) and see if this is something that the Lord wants you to participate in!

Dear Tooth Fairy...

Madison was SUPER EXCITED this morning when she discovered that the Tooth Fairy left her $5.00! She was sad to discover that her tooth was no longer in her tooth box, so she wrote the Tooth Fairy the following letter...

Dear Tooth Fairy,

Thank you for the 5 dollars, but I want my tooth back!

Love,

Madison

Madison Lost Her 1st Tooth!

Madison began crying this morning because she was scared that her wiggly tooth was going to fall out. After comforting her, she let me check it and we discovered that it was ready to come out. It was barely hanging there. We took one last picture of her wiggly baby tooth before we pulled it out.

She was so brave and let Mommy pull it. She didn't like seeing the blood though. Luckily it didn't bleed long.

She couldn't wait to run up to her bedroom and put her tooth in her tooth box.

Madison's 1st Lost Tooth!

Madison's Toothless Smile!

Holly Hope Rabens

Clay and I decided to let the girls get a pet hamster. So for Christmas I wrapped up the hamster cage. The girls were so excited when they opened it and realized that they were going to be getting a new pet.

Madison drew a picture of the hamster that she wanted. She also decided to name her Holly Hope Rabens since we got her for Christmas.

Madison LOVES the pink princess carriage that we bought for Holly.

Jocelyn can't wait to take Holly to Show and Tell in her very own School Bus!

After going to three pet stores we finally found Holly Hope Rabens.

She is a female long haired teddy bear hamster.

We are so HAPPY that she is a part of our family!

Holly seems to really like her new home!