Saturday, August 22, 2009

Can't Believe Summer is over!!!


My 2 amazingly beautiful girls...My biggest blessing is to be their momma!


Smiles! oh so sweet! Climbing our favorite tree in Rockport!
Next time we need tennis shoes!

"Hello! Anyone there?"

Giggling girls...nothing better!


Fun time in Rockport!



We were working on writing letters in the shaving cream...they were working on making faces!

Sea World jungle gym net...was quite a climb for Faith! But she is a very determined little girl &
very competetive! She wants to keep up with Em!
Ok...so we have to take a few business calls while we are playing. :)

Two BEAUTIFUL girls!!!

3D glasses are the coolest! Fun at the circus!

Emily's 1/2 birthday party- sweet girls all being oh so silly!

Not sure that i will even attempt to expain these pictures...:)

Hiding while playing "Flah light tag" in the dark
at the Hill Country Hyatt...the flash from my camera
was not very popular... They make YUMMY drinks there...

Word searches and puzzles...popular past times.

Floating in the Lazy River Hula Hoop contest.



Dancing- tada!


This has been an incredible summer. We have had tons of fun in the midst of very busy schedules. Faith is wonderful and again can't even begin to express how great it is to have her in our family...just can't imagine it without her! Last week we snuck away for a few days, tried to bury the phones as much as possible & just enjoy the kids. We went up to one of our favorite spots -Hill Country Hyatt in SA. The kids rode bikes, enjoyed hula hoop contests, roasting marshmallows, building sandcastles, floating on the lazy river and watching movies on the lawn and eating & snacking all day long. Great fun! Today the girls and i went to Rockport to visit Susan & Ale & just enjoyed the day piddling around Rockport, enjoying ice cream & their little aquarium area along the water. Faith had a party to go to for one of her friends tonight. They were in class together & it was fun seeing how much she could really talk to them now. Brinley was always so precious to Faith when she came to the class at the end of school last year- she just took her under her wing & i am so grateful for such a sweet friend.

Faith is doing so well with her English now...she understands really everything we say to her & can get across to us anything she wants to. Her sentences are becoming better each day & we are all working hard to help her every step of the way. Emily is our biggest help in this as she & Faith interact constantly all day long. I am really going to miss them being here all day when school starts. But i do think they are both ready. It was been a busy summer work wise, so not as much going on as summer past, but i think that it has been great for Faith to have stayed put awhile & have this truly become her home. She is certainly a home body. If i need to go out & run errands or show a house & I ask her to come with me, she will always choose to stay here if that is at all an option. She does not enjoy the heat of South Texas at all! She loves to swim...which is a great thing, since we love to do that as well.

We have gotten the jet skis out a few times & played up at the lake, which is always a blast for everyone. Emily, Faith & I went to Kids Camp together for 4 days last month up at Camp Zephyr on Mathis Lake. That was sooo much fun for all of us. Faith only went because I was going...but Emily was gracious enough to be excited that we were both coming. :) We did Sea World a few more times...we saw the Ringling Brothers B & B Circus which was fantastic...It was great watching Faith's face as she watched the show. So precious thinking that so many of these things are truly firsts for her. Emily had a 1/2 birthday party (since hers is at Christmas time-when life is crazy). The girls had fun doing a photo scavenger hunt at the mall & swimming at Mimi & Papas & having a slummber party. I hired 2 awesome teeager's to help out & it was a fantastic time...i highly recommend that!! :) REALLY can not believe that summer is over & schedules start up again in 2 days!