Happy 7 Month's Silas!

Happy 7 Month's Silas!!!

We LOVE you!

Mommy, Daddy, Gracie and Emma

We have been home 4 weeks today...

We have had such a great time as a family of 5! It has been very busy, but we want to share some of the things we have been up to lately...

(Dawn I hope you like all the pictures:) these pictures are for you and I want to see more of Jaxson!!) ha, ha!

Silas' Open House...

We had an open house for Silas. This is a picture of Silas' cake for his party! It was a wonderful day full of family and friends gathering together to celebrate Silas' adoption.

Some of the older kiddo's playing outside during the open house.

Lots of YUMMY food! Thanks to my family and friends for helping me pull this together. I appreciate all of you helping bring food in I could have not done it without you. We had such a wonderful time and thank you for helping make Silas' open house a success! I love you all!!!

Some of our guest looking at photos of our trip to Ethiopia. We had over 125 people come to Silas' open house. It was SO nice to see everyone and we appreciate all the love and support!!!

Tisha and Silas! Tisha and two of her boys came all the way from Indy to Silas' party. Tisha is adopting twin girls from Ethiopia. We meet online through our agency. Then we personally meet for the first time when we arrived home from Ethiopia at the airport. She took lots of great pictures of us coming off the plane and pictures with our families. She is such wonderful person and I am so glad we have became friends. Tisha and her family need lots of prayers they have a court date scheduled for this coming week and we are praying hard they pass. So please say a prayer for them! Thank you!!!

Daddy and Silas

Silas with his twin cousins Evan and Ethan, Grandma Judy, Aunt Amy and Kara.

Check out the boys they ALL wore the same orange and white shirts to Silas' open house party and this was not planned. They looked so cute!!! Gracie and Emma being big helpers holding the babies so we could get a picture of the three boys together.

Africa shape cookies! Thank you Grandma Judy for making these delicious cookies for my party. Love, Silas

Silas' new friend...

Silas and his new buddy Kian. We really enjoyed spending time with the Garver family. We sure wish they lived closer and we miss them. They came down last Monday and spent the afternoon with us. Thanks for coming to see us!

Starting a Band...

The girls have started a band with brother Silas! Gracie was on the keyboard and she was the singer, Emma played the violin and Silas was the drummer.

Silas having a great time playing his Ethiopian drum. We just LOVE his smile!!!

Some more first for Silas...

Silas taking a little nap in his pack-n-play. The most exciting part is he has slept all through the night the last three nights. YAY!!!

Silas started sitting up all by himself this month. Way to go sweetie!!!

Swim Time...

Silas' first time swimming in Mom Mom and Poppy's (Cory's parent's) pool and he love it! He even fell asleep while floating around.

The girls enjoying time swimming. They are little fish and love to be in the water. So anytime they get the opportunity to go to Mom Mom and Poppy's they are there!

Carnival Time...

Silas loving the Carnival! He is such a people person he had a great time smiling at everyone! He just makes us ALL smile!

Emma, cousin Brody and Gracie riding the train. The girls loved riding with Brody they are CRAZY about this little guy! Emma calls him (Rody) she had a hard time saying Brody when he was born. So he will always be Rody to Emma.

This is Reese he is 2 weeks old and went to his first Carnival with us. He such a sweet baby!

Emma is our thrill seeker!!! She rode every ride at the Carnival some of them she even rode all by herself and had a great time! Way to go Emma!!!

Before we went to the Carnival Gracie said I want to win a fish this year and guess what... Gracie won a fish at the Carnival! Even on her first try! She was SO excited and she named her

goldfish "Goldie".

Couple of Fun Pic's to end with...

The kiddo's dancing this morning it was SO cute watching Silas try to be as BIG as the girls. He was having a great time and his sisters were having so much fun making him laugh!

Silas looking at his sisters thinking what are we going to do next...
He just loves the girls and they LOVE him!

We want to wish ALL the father's a Happy Father's Day!!! We hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!!

This past week home with Silas...

Wow... how this past week has flown by! It has been wonderful watching Silas experience so many firsts with us as a family! We love him SO much! All we can do is thank GOD for handpicking Silas for our family we could not be happier! He is such a miracle!

Silas in front of all his signs from the airport. We were so appreciative of all our family and dear friends Tisha for coming and supporting us as we got off the plane. It brings tears to my eyes every time I think about it. It was amazing!!!

Emma, Silas and Gracie right before we left for church. This was Silas' first time going to church and he did so well. I love this picture of my three kiddos!!!

God is amazing... on August 28th Cory and I made our 1st phone call to AGCI to begin the adoption process. School had been in session for one week. Gracie and Emma's teacher knew about the process, and were SO supportive and kind. They both were hoping they could meet the child we would adopt. At the time it seemed like that would not happen. They thought they would have to meet him or her the next year. God had other plans and we are SO happy. We got a referral on March 2nd for Silas, April 3oth we had a court date, and May 18th we were a forever family. Then on May 26th we got to bring Silas to school to meet the girls' teachers and staff one week before school was out. God is amazing!!!

Mrs. Kiger, Mrs. Fritchie, Gracie and Silas. Gracie has been so blessed to have a wonderful teacher this year, and we are going to be sad to leave her. Thanks for all you do Mrs. Kiger and Mrs. Fritichie! Gracie loves you!!!

This is Gracie's 1st grade class and we are showing them the globe so they can see how far we traveled to bring Silas home. It was so fun visiting her class. The kids had SO many wonderful questions. Thanks Mrs. Kiger for letting us come in and show Mr. Silas off! Gracie sure was proud!

Emma, Silas and her wonderful kindergarten teacher Mrs. Sandschafer. We just love her and we are going to miss her next year. She is an excellent teacher and has made Emma's kindergarten year super!!! We attend the same church, so we are glad we will get to continue to see her this summer. Thanks for a fabulous year Mrs. Sandschafer!!! Emma loves you!!!

Some first for Mr. Silas...

Stroller time... just makes him sleepy. He loves his stroller and he always crashes by the time we are done. It is so cute!!!

Bumbo time... he likes to sit in his bumbo seat and hang out with his sisters. Silas likes to smile all of the time. He smiles non stop!

Silas loves playing with his toys and likes his saucer. He cannot get enough of Gracie and Emma playing with him. He laughs at the girls and it just makes them so happy!!!

Silas eating baby food for the 1st time at home. He loves to eat!!! Almaz told us to take him home and fatten him up. Boy does this little guy like food! So Almaz I think you are going to be happy!

Daddy putting up the water slide for Gracie and Emma. They have been enjoying cooling off these past few days!

Check out Silas' swimming trunks. Is he cute or what?

Mr. Silas just melts our hearts with those "big" brown eyes and sweet smile. We are so in love!!! We hope everyone has a wonderful day and stays cool! It is in the 90's today again and we are off to do some swimming.