Mercy's birthday

Yesterday was Mercy's 3rd birthday. Hard to believe she's already 3. I wish I could press the pause button on life. Everything is going way to fast. My "baby" is getting big. For her birthday breakfast she wanted Hello Kitty pancakes.

That afternoon we just hung out together as a family. Nothing special but a great day. The birthday girl wanted pasta and breadsticks for dinner. Then it was time for cake and presents. She wanted a hello kitty cake and I made a sad attempt at it. Who cares...Mercy loved it.

Happy Birthday, Mercy! We love you so much!

So how much did she cost?

2 years!

It's hard to believe it's been 2 years ago since I held Mercy in my arms for the first time. I will never forget that moment as long as I live. As soon as I reached for her she leaned into my chest and I began to breathe her in and look over her sweet body from head to toe. The same way I did with both my bio babes the first time they were placed into my arms. It's mommy intinct..the way God created us to be. The moment when she reached up and touched my face...ahhh, I was her mommy and she was mine.




What an amazing 2 years it has been.

Had to share this great adoption fundraiser

As most of you know I LOVE Matilda Jane clothing for miss Mercy. It's a funky little clothing line that I adore. A family adopting from China is having a raffle to raise money to bring home their daughter Keliah home. The prize is a Matilda Jane gift card! How cool is that! go check out their blog and buy a few tickets!

Fundraiser Blog

Christmas catchup

I need to get better about updating my blog but most of the people who read it are on FB so they already know what's going on with our lives. It's just life as usual here. Christmas was wonderful. Probably one of my favorite Christmas' ever. Nothing really special happened but it just felt perfect. A white Christmas for the first time that I can remember and 3 sweet kids who I love more that life. It was so much fun to curl up on the couch with all my loves and watch movies with snow falling and a fire in the fire place. There was very little rushing around from one house to the next to see all the family this year. We spent all of Christmas day in our PJ's and we all loved every minute of it.

Canaan's favorite gift....buzz lightyear wings

My 3 and their cousins

The kids with their grandparents (Sean's parents)

Canaan & cousin Andrew

My rock star

Addison Christmas Caroling at the Veterans Home with her classmates

Christmas Caroling

Sean & I before going to a Christmas party with friends

Our Christmas tree with all our special ornaments. The ones the kids have made me.

Addison baking cookies for Santa

Mercy gift from Nanny & PawPaw

Nanny and some of her grandchildren...isn't my sweet baby niece so cute.

My sister, Lisa's kids were sick and couldn't come to mom & dads so we opened presents on Christmas Eve over skype

Aunt Diane and Mercy.

Addison was pretty excited about this gift don't ya think? Her own digital camera

Canaan got a batcave...he loves it.
Santa brought Addison a necklace
Santa brought Canaan his beloved ironman glove

our WHITE Christmas

Mercy playing with her presents

It wouldn't be Christmas if Mercy didn't eat Santas cookies

Checking out her stocking

how about pictures....

Guess who's potty trained?

YAY! I couldn't be more excited to get Mercy potty trained and out of diapers. As most of you know I cloth diaper and I'm OVER washing diapers. She's a potty training pro. She decided she wanted big girl panties so we got her some and she never looked back. As a prize for learning to go potty like a big girl we got her a new baby doll. Here's Mercy and her new BFF Senia.