Renaissance Festival

I have escaped the Blahs!

As far as "the blahs" go I think I figured out ( with the help of dear hubby and a good friend Wendi) that I just forget to have fun sometimes!! It's so easy to get wrapped up in the routine of life and being a mommy and forget to take a deep breath and play once in awhile. I am guilty of perfectionism which is just ugly pride when you get right down to it. Wanting to appear okay and have the arrogance to think I can "handle" everything. I am determined to relax and smell the roses and soak in every day. I let you know how that goes!! :0)

For now "the blahs" are gone and we had a wonderful weekend. Friday my friend Wendi and I took our sweet little ones to the zoo. It was so much fun! Our little girls wore all of their princess gear to get a jump on the Halloween celebration. I put some pictures of it in the photo album.

Yesterday we went to the Renaissance Festival and had an amazing family day. I got some beautiful shots of my baby girl and had so much fun. The weather was perfect and Kaitlyn loved it.

If you want to check out the pictures click on photos at the top of the page. Scroll down to the album you would like to view. Then put the arrow towards the bottom of the page and and you can scroll through the pictures.

To see more pictures or order some of them go to our family website www.russandangel.com and click on memories.

Enjoy the pics and enjoy your day!! We only have one day llike today.

Soak it in!!!

I have a major case of the blahs

I know you know what I'm talking about. THE BLAHS!!!! Don't know where they come from. Don't know where they go. No reason. Everything is going great but you just feel BLAH!!! Hormones? Who knows. Stress? Maybe. Exhaustion? Possible, I guess. BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!! What do you want to do? Nothin. What do you want for dinner? I don't know. Are you feeling okay? Yeah I guess so. Man, I hope this passes soon. It's weird. Maybe I need some caffeine. Nah. Maybe I should go for a walk. No way. Maybe I should take a nap. I don't wanna. Well you get my drift... Maybe I'm just diificult. BLAH BLAH BLAH :0)

Our Homestudy Is Finished

I did my interview for the homestudy yesterday. It was great. I met with our social worker at Cracker Barrell and had some good food and great conversation. We did the interview and then ended up just talking for a long time . The lady who is handling our case is so nice and is an adoptive mother too. We had a 2 1/2 hour long breakfast. It was wonderful and I felt like I learned so many things about adoption in general. Social workers can be quite a handy information source!!!

She's got us thinking that our next adoption may be a domestic bi-racial adoption. I KNOW! I KNOW! Let's get through this adoption first. I'm just saying that a little blonde princess, a precious guatemalan sweetheart, and an adorable African-American baby boy sound like the perfect American family to me. Don't you think??? I can just see it now!! Go ahead. Tell me I'm crazy! I am WELL AWARE of that fact. I bet a lot of people thought Jesus was a complete nut case. So if I'm trying to be like Him I guess people are just going to have to think I'm a loon sometimes!! I know I have quite a few fellow "loonies" that follow this blog :0)

So now she is putting our homestudy together. She writes out a report that is like 8 pages long about our family and sends it to Dillon.

From this point on we are able to accept a refferral! WOW!!!! It could be any day now. I know this sounds kinda weird but I hope it doesn't happen for a month or two because I would like to have time to get our dossier turned in first. That way we can get her home younger. You can only start your dossier when your about to get a refferral but you have to have it done before you can start the court process to bring your child home. OK. Now I'm just confusing all of you right?? It's all very time sensitve. Just keep praying for God's perfect timing in all of this! WE ARE GETTING SO EXCITED!!!

Homestudy rescheduled

Our social worker called and rescheduled my private interview for Saturday at 8:30 am. Hey it's early but at least we're meeting at Cracker Barrell. Yummy. Yeah! After that it will take her a couple of weeks to put the study together and send it to Dillon. Then we are just waiting for our little girl to be matched with our family. Isn't that wild???? It seems to be getting so close. Wow... I feel very peaceful about the timing. I'll let you know how it goes.

You'll never guess what Kaitlyn said...

Kaitlyn (my 2 year old) was acting really upset and irritable.

I asked her, "Kaitlyn, what's wrong. Tell me what's going on Baby."

She looked at me very seriously and replied, "Mommy, I just have issues."

ISSUES I'm not kidding. I cracked up laughing and then recovered enough to tell her I was so sorry she is having "issues." Exactly how many "issues" can a two year old princess have??? Well I guess she's facing her own life challenges like the rest of us. Potty training, counting and sharing are all hard to do when you a little cutie pie named Kaitlyn. All I can say is if two is this dramatic I am VERY frightened of 13!!!!

And Her Name Is!!!

Drum roll please!! I realized I haven't made an official announcement of our little girl's name!

We have decided that we will name her

Krysta Zoe.

Krysta = anointed, divinely chosen

Zoe= life

So her name means Divinely Chosen Life

It is very important to us that her name reminds her everyday that God chose her for us. She is ours even now.

My Dearest Krysta,

I am praying for you every day little one. One day you will know how much I love you. You will know that although I didn't carry you in my body I have been carrying you in my heart for many years. I knew a long time ago that you would be my baby girl and so did God. You are chosen for your daddy, me and your sister Kaitlyn. I am praying for you to be safe and warm and loved. It is hard on my heart not to know where you are but I know that God will hold you until we can.

With All Of My Heart,

Mommy