Christmas 2007

We had a wonderful Christmas except for this nagging ulcer of mine. I've been drinking Mylanta and popping pills forever now but nothing seems to help! Urgh!! Everything went really well. Zoey loved her kitchen set, baby doll, tunnel and gifts from family. She use to not like to play with toys that much but now that is all she does! We also had 2 birthdays in the family. Brody turned 15 (and started looking for a job today) and Grandma Inman turned 80! They had a suprise party for her and 2 chocolate/strawberry cakes! Brody had a giant cookie for his cake! It was so nice to get to see everyone. I forgot my camera and the Hindman family get together on Christmas eve so I'll try to add some pics in of them later. Happy New Year everyone!!

Messy Marvin and I love my grandaddy!

Today Brody and Erica were fixing chocolate covered pretzels and Zoey started eating them before they were dry. She made a big mess! I just had to snap a picture of her!!

My parents took care of Zoey last week so Jeremy and I could go to our Sunday School class party. Zoey went to sleep in my dad's lap and he wouldn't move because he didn't want to wake her. I thought it was so sweet!

Deer and turkey, oh my!!

Yesterday Zoey was standing in the dining room and she yelled out "DEER"! We have seen a few already but it was so cool that Zoey was the one to notice it. This one was just right behind our deck. Later we saw 2 just a little ways from this one plus 7 turkeys. We saw about 12-15 turkeys on Thanksgiving day. It's strange to live just inside the city limits (the woods behind us start the county) and see wild animals right in our back yard. Now Zoey thinks she should be able to look out any window and see a deer!

I love my old photos!

If you know me you know I love my old photos! I could look at them forever! Here are some of my favorites of many years ago!! It's hard to believe how much the kids have changed. Years from now I'll be putting ones of Zoey on my blog!

Zoey loves her daddy!

Zoey loves to be read to...all the time! Here is one of Jeremy reading to her.
The boys have finals this week so they are out of school early every day. I am through with Christmas shopping...Hallelujah! We are looking forward to getting together with family soon!

Zoey just doesn't care for Santa!!

Zoey got to see Santa at Jeremy's Frito-Lay Christmas party on Saturday. She just looked terrified at first then she started to cry...not an all out scary cry just a get me outta here cry!! This was the best (out of 3) pictures they took. This poor Santa was tall, skinny, had a long nose and really didn't know how to talk to the kids. Maybe she would like a chubby, sweet Santa? I kinda doubt it! The second picture is our Christmas card from many years ago. Aren't the boys just so cute! Wasn't I just so thin? ha!! The third one is the boys on their first Christmas together. Don't forget that Brody's birthday is on Christmas day! He'll be 15!

I can't believe Tyler is a senior!

I can't believe Tyler is a senior!


I also can't believe how much he has changed over the years! This post is for him...

Mom loves you!

Does she like to eat??

Does my baby love to eat? YEP!! She can use a fork like a pro now!

I've been showing lots of pics of Zoey but none of the boys so my next posts will be for them!

Christmas is coming soon!

Well, Christmas is almost here! It's exciting being Santa Clause again! We put up our old tree which was about 5 1/2 feet tall then at Brody's birthday party on Saturday night Zoey just touched an ornament and the tree started to fall on her!! Meredith was beside of her and caught it just in time! Thank you Mer-mer!! The plastic base had broke so Jeremy went to Home Depot and bought us an 8 footer with a wider base. It looks much better with the high ceilings anyways.

Zoey loves the tree and loves looking at lights in the neighborhood. We just put up a deer, 2 lit trees and some lit candy canes. It is time to start shopping!

We went to the Frito-Lay Christmas party on Saturday. Zoey didn't care for Santa very much! I'll post a picture soon.

Pics of Zoey

O.k. so I have a lot to learn about blogging! I just had to post some pics of our sweetie!

I'll be taking some Christmas pictures this week for our Christmas card so I'll post more then!

My first page!

Hello everyone! I'm going to TRY to figure this whole blog thing out so be patient with me because I have NO idea what I'm doing!! I'm not going to tell you about me and my family because if you are reading this you already no us and our story of adoption.

We moved 5 weeks ago in to our beautiful new house and I'm just SO excited! The boys seem to be enjoying it as every day we have anywhere from 2-12 kids over! It is also nice living in town. We are only a mile from Wal-Mart, Home Depot and our favorite restaurant LaFuente! Thanks to my husband for working so hard so we can live and Zoey can grow up in such a nice home. We also have both lots on either side of the house so she will have plenty of room to romp around when she is older!

It's hard to believe that we have already celebrated a belated birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, daddy's birthday, mommy's birthday, Halloween and Thanksgiving with our sweet little girl! We have been talking about our China travel on our forum today and it has bought back lots of nice memories of China. I had a few bad ones like the pain I was in by the time we got back to Huntville but their was much more good ones than bad ones!! Later on I'll post some of my favorite pics from our trip. It will be hard to choose!