2nd Annual Camping with AWAA friends

We have been blessed with some of the BEST adoption friends!!! We all spent time together in Ethiopia in early April 2011. We missed several other friends from our travel group, but we were so glad the Murray's, Buckinghams's, and Snyder's could make it!! Our weekend started a day earlier this year and it was a fun filled weekend with so many new memories made with these sweet friends! Our days were filled with swimming, golf cart rides, laser tag in the dark, capture the flag, a scavenger hunt, a food fight, an outdoor movie, singing around the campfire, s'mores, boat rides, kayaking, and more! We are so thankful our families all set time aside to reconnect each summer!!!

Sweet Boys

Isaiah spent his first 3 weeks of summer at 3 different camps. He was so excited to attend church camp again in MI at Miracle Camp. Then he attended tennis camp in Danville with my dad and stepmom. The 3rd week he was in Champaign at my moms at FCA tennis camp where Uncle Chad was his coach. He had the best time!!! Kaleb, Jacob, and I spent the middle part with him but his little brothers sure missed him. This picture was not posed, they really love their big brother and they were so happy when he was finally home!

Brothers

When you have boys so close in age (9 months apart) they want to do everything the same. After taking several photos of Kaleb, Jacob also "needed" a turn. We took 83 pictures of Kaleb to get a few smiling ones. Jacob smiled on the first try (rare!). Love these two so much!

Kaleb's 4th Birthday Party

Kaleb has been talking about his birthday for a LONG time. The weekend finally came and we celebrated his birthday for 3 days. His requests were donuts, cars, airplanes, spiderman, pizza, and strawberry cupcakes with Lightning McQueen. He took donuts to the babysitters and cupcakes to school. When someone asked him how old he was or anything about his birthday, his answer was "I have donuts and cupcakes to take to Cindy's and school." The boys LOVE to go to the children's museum in town, so we had Kaleb's birthday party there. There was a lot of snow so not everyone was able to make it, but we had fun with those that could make it. Here are some pictures of his party!

 The party was filled with Cars themed foods!
Oil covered Dip sticks, Mater's Dip Sticks, and Mater's Tow Cables

 checking it all out

 Luigi's Tower of Tires and Maters Favorite Snack Fish

 donut cake and McQueen cupcake

 Refueling Station

 birthday hat from school (he wore it for 3 days) and Aunt Mimi made Kaleb a special shirt

 Kaleb LOVES the birthday song

 he loved it so much he started singing it for himself again with his cupcake, lol

 so happy with his donut cake

 Kaleb's favorite thing to do at the museum was playing with his new McQueen car

 trying to get a picture of all the kids, everyone but Cora was in this one