Dallas Car Expo 2010

We try to attend car shows with the kids for fun. We drove to Dallas -an hours journey- to go see some of the new vehicles out there. This is mainly a "Greg" thing, but the kids even drool over corvettes and sleek cool cars!

Amazingly enough, as we were exiting our vehicle, loading the smaller ones into the stroller, a couple with 2 children of their own came up to us asking us if we wanted free tickets and handed them to Greg. The guy worked at a Lexus dealership and said he had extra tickets. WOOT! We didn't have to pay anything! I think it was just a few dollars for each of us to get in, so that was a huge surprise and blessing!

Anyway, here are some photos!

Kien is going to buy mommy a Tahoe! Heehee
Gabe was actually excited from mommy being silly, but what an awesome smile next to Daddy's favorite car! (Not color, but car!!!)
Way awesome to see the Transformer's Bumblebee!! An extra $1000.00 bucks package for this Camaro! Hey! It's Bumblebee!!!

We all took turns holding Kien and letting him drive cars. Kien likes them!

Kien was a tad bit intimidated by this large shiny thing!! It took a few snapshots to get a decent photo, because he didn't know WHAT to think!
This was the final car that all of us -yes ALL OF US- drooled over. Gabe's the exception that we couldn't quite tell if he was just drooling to drool, or sharing our amazement with this car! LOL!

Bingo, Old MacDonald, Veggie Tales all in one!

A Few Photo's

This would be the boys both waking up from the drive home to the mall by daddy's work. He had to go get his glasses adjusted. This stroller was very nice to roll them around in.

We decided to eat lunch at the mall since the food court was not far from LensCrafters.
Here is Gabe's new car seat. His little feet hang over the edge of the infant car seat that once belonged to Kien. He will now use this car seat until we need a booster seat by the age 4 or 5.
Brandy loves to stick her tongue out for photo's as does everyone else in this family!
Gabe is trying out the LaZ boy chair we bought from our neighbor Barry.
It is on occasion we make yummy blueberry/chocolate chip and regular pancakes. Brandy and Jeremy love chocolate chip pancakes, Kien's favorite are blueberry pancakes and Greg just likes regular. I eat one of each! :)
Cheeeesy!
My beautiful angel!
Kien likes to make a huge mess with his toys! He is now beginning to not want to clean them up!
Gabe is startled at the flash!

Greg's Project truck

Greg's truck is FINALLY painted! It's been a loooooooong wait, but it's done!!

Snoozing Baby

Jeremy was teaching Gabriel how to watch TV. Just like most males, he fell asleep! 

He didn't even wake up when Greg picked him up and held him.

Gabe has grown!

**Edit-
Here is Gabriel at a little over one month old.  Here is Gabe at a little over 5 months old! HUGE difference!

Now here is Gabe at 7 months!! 

A Very Lion Valentine!

Greg and I have a cute Lion collection started our honeymoon week. He bought me a cute little stuffed lion while in Colorado. From then on, for Anniversary, Christmas, Birthday and Valentine's we usually will find anything with a Lion to give each other. We have a HUGE stuffed animal Lion collection! So, Greg's last "lion" gift was a card that could have only been purchased at the International Exotic Feline Sanctuary in Boyd, Texas. So, I had to come up with something pretty cute that he would have NO idea what it could possibly be -lion related of course.

Here is a Lion Cake! How purrrrrrr-fect!

Johnny Cash Onesie

Greg's cousin sent this cute onesie for Gabe as she as well as Greg are fans of Johnny Cash. Adorable! This package also contained Robeez socks and Robeez slipper shoes with motorcycles on them! :) Way awesome!!

February Snow!

This winter we received record breaking snow fall amounts. The total amount for our area was 14 inches, never has Texas seen so much snow! It was amazing how people who have never left or always lived in Texas made snow men dressed in beach gear to making real igloo's! I didn't even think that anyone here would have sled! People used lid tops to bins, garbage can lids, and cardboard to ride down small slopes. I don't think anyone who was "from" Texas had a snow shovel. Greg sold his shovel when he moved from Illinois because Texas doesn't get snow. (haha)

We actually borrowed Karl and Cheryl's shovel they brought from Colorado! :)

Here is Kieney bean just loving the snow! It was hard for him to walk because of how deep the snow was!
Brandy, Jeremy and Garrett were rolling huge balls around to make a snow man. Kien got to sit on the smallest one!

A fine time to run out of formula couldn't have been any more inconvenient. Visibility was next to zero until we came closer to Wal-Mart. If you look at this photo, off to the right the visibility was none. It is a huge field, and you couldn't see anything! Luckily the roads weren't bad, so we went straight to the store and straight back.
It was nice to have a taste of real snow, we may not see this much again for a looooooong time.

Our Hamlet!

I love this first photo because he looks like he is deep in thought. Could he be a scholar?! Or maybe processing the Jesus loves me song that Kien and I sing outloud?! HA! Either way, He's cute!

Here is Gabe and Duke sitting together side by side. At first Gabe liked it aparently. Duke, not so much?

Adoption is Final!

February 2, 2010

Here is my handsome little man! Waiting on the rest of us to get our act together and out the door!

Brandy and Kien posing right before leaving.
My two wonderful teens. They are growing up so fast! I heart them!
Gabe was trying to sit on his own! Must be the weight of how smart he is in the big head of his!! :)
This was waiting right outside the court room. They allowed us to bring the stroller, which was nice for the little ones. Gabe played in his seat the whole time and Kien kept saying he wanted to go talk to the lady.
Gabe was curious about why we were in this weird place and why his outfit seemed to be different from every other one he wore. We couldn't even get his tie on!
The proceedings took about 10 minutes. The attorney asked a few questions, then gave me an opportunity to tell the judge our wonderful story on how Kien came to be with us. I was so nervous that I didn't even look to see if the judge had tears. He was moved for sure. Once all was completed, we were able to get a photo with the judge.
Then after, the judge said to pick out stuffed animals for the kids. Jeremy picked this one and also a bear.
Here is the photo afterwards with our attorney.
We were headed back to the car, but had to get a photo!

Greg had to return back to work after, so we celebrated with dinner later. :) :)