Zoe West Linn dance compitition

 

 

This was Zoe's first actual competition of the season.  The first dance was exihibition.  They competed against other Portland dance studios.  They ended up place 3rd out of 4 teams.  The teams they competed against had mostly older girls on the team. 

 

Philomath Dance Compitition

This weekend Zoe had her first dance competition and it was in our hometown.  I had to help out a bit  and I had the girls on my own since Chase had a wrestling tournament.  It was an exhausting day but the girls danced so well and  I loved watching them.

MIA

Sorry I've been MIA but we been doing some very important things!  We just returned home with our newest daughter Faith!  She is amazing!  She is almost 2 1/2 and just six month younger than her bigger sister Hope.  We left for China on the 13th and first visited Xian.  We met Faith on the 19th.
You can see visit our website at www.myadoptionwebsite.com/faith.  Today we had our first post adoption placement visit and Hope's 1 year.   We decided to venture off to the park afterwards to get out of the house.  The kids had fun and I was able to get a few pictures to share.

Playing with babies

Big sister has to do everything little sister does

Showing me how she can climb the stairs.  The children are always so interested in the stairs when they first get home and we usually have to put up a gate after week one home

Doing pretty good for how little she is

At the top and happy with herself

Playing in their room or shall I say dumping everything out that mom just cleaned up

She loves this tent

Showing me the book that has our picture in it from when we sent it to Zoe

Hope have a meltdown

Gotta love the twos

Getting ready to go on our walk

Hope showing us what she can do on the playground

Beautiful baby girl

Not to sure of the slide

Zoe

Climbing up again to go down the slide

My attempt at a picture of these four.  We will take our family picture on Thanksgiving

First day of School

Here are the First day of school pictures!  Conor is a Junior, Parker is a Freshman, Chase is a 5th grader, Zoe is a 3rd grader and Hope's in Preschool!

Parker is 5ft 7 and 123lbs

Chase is 53inches and 60lbs

Zoe is 49in and 54.6lbs

Hope is 36 1/2inches and 29 lbs

Conor is 6ft1 and 151lbs

Holt Picnic and Fair

This weekend was the Holt annual picnic.  We attended this one last year and the kids loved it so we went again this year.  The turnout was not as good as last year mainly because of the heat but it was neat to meet a few new families and chat about adoption.  Afterwards we headed to the fair and had a quick dinner provided from my work.  We didn't stay long as it was really hot out and the kids already had a long day.  Chase did an additional 50 pushups at the army recruiter to earn another prize.