Date Night

Daddy took Rinny to daddy-daughter date night at church. He even got her flowers. At the church they danced to "Cinderella" and then Rinny got to go on stage and say "I love you, Daddy!". Micah said she didn't need the microphone at all and didn't have any sort of stage fright. Hmm....sounds strangely familiar. Uh Oh, I'm in for it. 

Even though Creed was taking me on a date, my "frince" (Rinny's word for prince) got me flowers none the less. Okay, I love him and he is my frince.

My other little frince.
Creed and I enjoyed the Melting Pot cheese fondue and of course, chocolate fondue. Yumm oh. Afterwards we got on some Chuck E Cheese action. Sweet. Nothin' like visiting Chuck E Cheese on a school night until around 9:15. The cliental around that time is awesome. 

My little frince turned into a pirate and then fell asleep. On the way home I was DYING laughing. We are trying to teach Creed how to treat the ladies. He opened my door for me, always asks "how was your day" or "tell me about" this or that. At the end of a wonderful evening with my gentleman he asked, ever so sly...."Since we went on a date, can I sleep with you tonight?" Ha!! Totally innocent but still hilarious to me. And yes, mamma said "okay, you talked me into it!" We cuddled all night. I guess we will have to work on teaching him the ins and outs of what is and what is not appropriate :) We've got awhile I guess.

Waiting for baby brother....

Update

We just got an email from our friend and case worker. She let us know that Jude was discharged from the hospital. Praise the Lord. He was discharged on November 10 and we should be getting his discharge summary soon. We are so thankful he has been discharged and back in the comfort of his foster home. 

Please pray for continued healing, and also for Mrs. Kim's (Jude's foster mother) daughter. She is trying to enter college and that is very, very competitive in Korea. I am praying for Mrs. Kim to get rested and able to feel at peace and comforted after a very stressful few weeks. 

Also, if that mailman doesn't have something for me today.....welp, it's going to be ugly. How could they do that to me and not deliver the mail yesterday? Don't they know that is what I look forward to every day!

Seven

months old today. Missing him tons. Our prayers is that we won't have to be celebrating his little milestones thousands of miles apart for much longer. 

I photographed the Hot Shots this weekend. Wowzers. I can't believe that I got one picture of them all looking at the camera. These boys are CRAZY. The end to the season was fun. The Hot Shots had a defeated season (by defeated, I mean DEFEATED). You would never know it by their attitudes. Zeal for life. Passion. Only way to describe it. Fun times. Way to go, Hot Shots!

Minus One

Here are two of the cutest sugars in the world at some play time with friends. 

I've been trying to get things done to make the time to Jude's arrival go quicker. Attempting to mark stuff off the list. Yesterday Creed and I put Jude's bed together and put all the bedding on it (photos to come...it totally rocks). Creed was awesome to help, he really was.

When it gets quiet, or when I take pics of Creed and Rinn I really start to get sad. I have time to think about how Jude deserves to be playing with us, me shooting a bijillion pics of him. Waah...this is totally not fair to us! Then the pitty party sets in. He is still in the hospital and we are awaiting word of his discharge, or some update on his burns and his bronchitis. We got a short report this week that just said he was doing well and that they hoped that he will get discharged next week. We were actually hoping it was this week.

I accosted the postman yesterday as he was walking up to the house. It wasn't even worth it....he had nothing of importance. By "importance" I mean our I 600 approval that gets us one step closer to Jude being home. If he doesn't deliver that pretty soon, the poor mailman is going to see the ugly cry.

Election -08

My kids have the cookie decorating down to an art. We do cookies a lot.

Notice the shirts....look really close at the face on the shirt. Well, we didn't have such a great night. We are so women's lib (ha)

Quick trip to eat a little Korean food to celebrate our new boys (yet to be home). We met up with Kathryn, Dusty, and Cole to eat some delicious Korean food. Creed was in heaven. Rinn made it quite clear (several, several, several) times to our waitress that she would not be eating any Korean food and rather, that we had brought her chicken nuggets from McDonalds (we were SO embarassed). Rinn is in love with Cole. She totally thinks he is a baby, it's awesome (notice the choke hold around the poor little guys neck!)
The kids and I doing our civic duty. It was awesome because when we got there, there was only a very few people. So, we sat down at a table and the kids helped me fill out the ballot. What an experience. I was really trying to instill in them the importance of the day. The next presidential election Creed will be 10,then the next 14, then the next 18...he will vote in that election. He will have just turned 18 two months prior to the election. That's all out craziness.
Seriously, love Rinny's face in this pic.