Happy 9 Months Silas!

We just wanted to wish Silas E. a Happy 9 Month Birthday today! We Love You!!!

Here are 9 things we Love about you...

1. Those Big Brown Eyes!

2. Your sweet sweet smile...you just light up any room with that smile.

3. The way you clap for yourself... it is just too cute!

4. How you say Dada... just melts daddy's heart.

5. We love how you love to snuggle... we can't get enough of that.

6. How you crawl and follow us around the house.

7. How you pull up to everything... especially when you peek over your crib in the morning and smile at us.

8. We love your sweet hugs...mommy loves when you squeeze her.

9. We just love how you just complete our family! We thank God everyday for you Silas. Thanks for being such a wonderful son.

First Day of School...

Today was the first day of school. They only went for 3 hours today. My babies are growing up way to fast! Where did the time go?

Here is Gracie this morning before she left for school. I cannot believe she is going into the 2nd Grade.

Emma ready to go to the 1st grade. I cannot believe she is a big 1st grader!

Emma with her new back pack

Gracie with her new back pack

My girls getting ready to leave. I get butterflies for them, but I know they were excited and ready to go. I just miss them so much.

Gracie and Emma giving Silas one more kiss before they left.

The girls headed to school. Silas had a play date with Layton. This helped him today or he would have just been lost. He is so crazy about his sisters.

Thanks Layton for hanging out with me. You made me laugh and I had lots of fun!

After our play date with Layton. We went to get the girls and Silas was very excited to see them and so was I. They had a great 1st day! Both girls have wonderful teachers. It's going to be a super year:)!

Emma with her new teacher Mrs. Kiger (Gracie had her last year and we just love her!)

Gracie with her new teacher Miss Shawver and we sure look forward to getting to know her.

We hope everyone has a great Monday!

Water Balloons and the Park!

This is how we spent our afternoon...

Yes... I filled lots and lots of water balloons today for the girls. I told them they could pick out a few fun activites to do before school starts and this is one of them. They both wanted to have a "BIG" water balloon fight. The girls had a blast and Silas even joined in on all the fun.

Silas swinging before he got all wet.

Miss Gracie being silly. The picture is crazy because I was trying to hold Silas and watching Emma from getting the camera all wet.

Miss Emma getting ready to soak Gracie.

The girlie's having lots of fun!!!

I was trying to get a picture of all three kiddos and Mr. Silas just wanted to kiss on his big sis.

Silas getting in on all the fun!

Well after a fun day playing in the water we headed to the park.

Gracie and Silas sliding

Silas clapping because he wanted to keep going down the slide.

Silas driving with Gracie in the firetruck.

All three kiddos on the airplane... and they are all smiling! Yay!!

All the kiddos again, but check out Silas' cheesy smile. He is such the ham!

We hope everyone had a great Monday!

Camping at Shakamak State Park

The girls left early Friday morning and headed to Shakamak State Park to go camping with Grandma Judy and Grandpa Mike. We talked with the girls last night and they were having a blast and said they don't want to leave, but they are coming home this evening. I will share some of the photos my mom took on Friday and Saturday.

Gracie and Emma having art time in the camper with Grandma.

Swinging on the tire swing!

Playing some ball with a new little friend they made at the campground.

The girls waiting to ride on a pony!

Gracie with Grandpa Mike riding a pony. She loved it!

Emma riding a pony and Grandpa Mike leading them around.

Emma going down the water slide! She said the slide is AWESOME!!!

Gracie playing in the water sprinkler.

Gracie going down the water slide!

Silas stayed home with us this weekend. We did go over and spend yesterday evening with them camping and we had lots of fun roasting marshmallows, making smores and going on a walk down by the water. Silas had a great time, but my batteries went dead in my camera. So I was very bummed! I did not want to leave Silas out so here is a picture of him eating a Ritz cracker. This boy loves to eat!

I hope everyone had a great weekend. It is hard to believe school starts in two weeks for us. Summer has went by super fast, but we have had a great summer especially being a family of 5!

Our Annual Holiday World Trip...

Silas having a blast playing in the water at the water park

Our beautiful girls having fun at the water park

That is Emma up at the top waving at us

You have to look hard, but Gracie is waving at us

Our baby boy Silas...who is just to cute!

Miss Gracie getting off the water slide

Emma

All three kiddos in line waiting to ride in the antique cars

Emma driving mommy and Silas

Gracie standing up and driving daddy around

Gracie and Emma telling Santa Clause what they wanted for Christmas. Awww it is less than 5 months away!

Emma riding the Liberty Launch all by herself nobody in our family wanted to ride it. So she was the brave one of the group.

One of the girls old time favorite ride

Gracie riding the swings

Emma in front of her favorite ride "The Voyage Roller Coaster"!

Gracie in front of her favorite roller coaster the "Raven"!

We had so much fun and all three kiddos were fantastic! It is so fun watching them get so excited! Some of the best parts of the day was having several people come up to us and ask about Silas. They had fell in love with him and wanted to know his story. Anytime I get the chance to talk about adoption I sure do! Emma and I rode a roller coaster and two teenage girls rode with us and after the ride the one girls mom came up to me and said that she had adopted the girl we rode with when she was two. She said she had also adopted three other children. I love to hear about others that have adopted. So that was a great way to end our day at Holiday World!