1 Year Down, Forever to Go

I'm sure most of you noticed our blog ticker or all my mentions leading up to the anniversary of the boys coming home. Some call it, Gotcha Day and well...it seems like a great fit for the occasion! Ours was this past Saturday, September 11th but as has become our little family's way we made it last for days! Friday night the four of us went here....

Or as the boys call it, "the animals restaurant." We have been once before and they asked to go there every time we have passed by it since. Needless to say, our little balls of energy get a bit "wild" themselves with the whole sensory experience. But, special occasions such as this warrant special circumstances...so the Rainforest it was! We even had this right before bedtime....
and made it look like this...No not really, we had to get a to go container for half the brownies, but J made sure the ice cream didn't go to waste!
Saturday, J had a birthday party for a friend from school so I took him while Jeff and "A" went to reading tutoring. By the way, "A" is making amazing progress in learning to read! We are so proud! Saturday night we went to Los Cucos with our friends, the Stephensons! We are so blessed by their friendship especially journeying through fostering together, and they love on our boys which means the world! Sunday was busy with two trips to church...but we managed to fit in a batch of cookies on our special plate! I really feel like we have turned a corner and am so grateful for all of your prayers for our family as we became just that, a family. Now, we are ready for the courts and paper work to catch up with what God has already sealed in our hearts!