Talent Show

Kristopher was in the Talent Show yesterday!! He did a great job. I have some pictures here to share, though they aren't that great of quality. I had to adjust the brightness in them because they were taken in a Gym and my camera takes really bad pictures in bad lighting!! Him and two of his friends danced to "Chain Hang Low" they were break dancing. It was really good. He was such a ham up there!! We have video of it to take to Grandmas next week on vacation. After everyone performed they had everyone come back up on stange for a round of applause and of course my ham of a son was asking for more applause, by waving his hands around etc... He did a flip on stage during the applause as well. To funny!! He really needs to be an actor. LOL

My Visit

This weekend I was able to go and see Ella and her family!! Ella is the my surrobaby that I had last year in November. Her parents were so sweet and bought me a ticket for my birthday to come and see Ella for her 1st birthday. We had a really nice visit. I can't believe how big Ella is already. She says a few words and smiles and giggles!!! She is walking all over the place and loves to get into everything!! :-) I wanted to share a few pictures from the weekend so you can all see how big and beauitful she is!!! Thank you so much Sarah and Paul for the wonderful gift!!!
This is a picture of us one year ago! Time sure does fly!! Look at how big she has gotten!! :-)

Kristopher!

Well I had to come back on and let you all know Kristoper did make the cuts for the Talent Show. He is so excited!! They have practice Thursday after school and then the show is Wednesday the 20th. Its their last day before the Holiday Break. I will be sure to post pictures so you can all see what a dancer he is!! LOL

I also had to come on and let you know that my sweet boy was Student of the Month for November. It was a suprise to him!!! They let the parents know but keep it a secret from the kids until the day of the assembly. The assembly was on Friday so we got him a bunch of balloons and his dad got to come down to suprise him as well. They hid us in the band room and all the kids went to the gym. A teacher from each team (6th -8th are broken into two teams per grade) went forward and told who there student of the month was and then the parent of that child came out from hidding in the hall way. Kristopher was so shocked!! I wish I could have seen his face when the said his name!! He was thrilled he has wanted to get SOM since the first month of 6th grade. They get to have a pizza party tomorrow for all the students who received this honor!! Here are a few pictures from that day!! I should have more in a few days that I will post as well tha the teachers took.

Ryan is here

My dear friend Melissa delivered her Surrogate baby today!! I just had to come on and say how proud I am of her!! She did an amazing job with no complaints!! She was having some good contractions that started last night so we think he would have decided to come today even if there was no C-section! Here are some picutres of Ryan and his mommy and daddy!! Ryan was born at 9:07 am 8lbs 6 oz and 19 1/2 inches long!

Our day

Well today we had to take Kristopher to the dr and to get some xrays of his foot. We were at the basketball game last night at the Middle School and he fell and hurt it. He was unable to put any pressure on it at all until a little while ago. We still don't have an results of the xrays yet. So hopefully by tomorrow. Since he is doing a little better this evening I am thinking that it probably isn't broke. This morning I thought maybe but not that he is walking a little better and with out the crutches (we had some here at the house he was using) as much I think it might just be bruised or something. He is worried about tomorrow because the tryouts for the talent show are tomorrow after school and him and two friends are going to try out. They are doing a "free style" dance to some rap song. He is hoping it will feel much better by then!

Tonight I put a new outfit on baby sister and she looks so cute so I had to take some pictures for grandma! Then Dillon of course had to have some and then take some so below are some of the pictures from tonight! My three beautiful babes!! Ok so one of them isn't really a baby anymore and two of them aren't biologically mine but I still consider them all my babies!! :-)

Thanksgiving

Hello!! This is my first attempt at a blog!! My best friend has one and I thought with the family that we have everywhere this might be a good way to keep everyone updated on what is going on here in IL.

We got home last night after a wonderful visit with Grandma in Michigan!! We had a really nice relaxing time. No shopping this year! We had a great meal Thursday afternoon. I made for the first time ever dressing/stuffing. It was really good!! It was made from scratch and I was so proud of myself!! :-) grandma made a delicioius turkey and all the sides!! It was very very good! We went to the movies on Friday and Grandma watched Kaitlyn. I guess she slept most of the time we were gone. Then we went to Canada on Saturday. Grandma had a hair appt and didn't think her back could handle the drive there and back and then the walking so she stayed home. We got up and went to church yesterday and then came home for a quick bite to eat then we left for the LONG drive home. Kaitlyn did really good the whole time except the last two hours!! She cried the whole time. I eventually had to take her out of her seat and hold her the last 20 min or so of the trip. We just couldn't take the crying we all felt so bad for her. She was fine after I took her out. Kristopher was just sure we were going to get stopped by the police and taken to jail!! :-)

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and long weekend!! Here are some pictures of the trip! The one is of us in Canada with the Detroit skyline behind us.