Gator Showcase Soccer Tournament

Sydney holding her own!



Brothers hangin' out and enjoying the game!

All the girls! Beginning to warm up before the game.

Gator Showcase 2nd Place U10 Division!

A few weeks ago, Sydney's soccer team played at the Gator Showcase Tournament in Gainesville. (University of Florida)

The girls did an amazing job, taking 2nd Place in the U10 division!

We've watched all of the girls' skills improve so much this year. It is the first year they have all played together.

Sydney is learning to be more aggressive...most of the girls on the other teams tend to tower over her! But she is learning to hold her own!

We're so proud of you Syd!!

happy gotcha day!

One year ago today, we officially became Jackson's parents!

Kurt and I remember sitting in our hotel room in China talking about what Jackson will be like in 6 months and then again at 1 year post placement.

He has come farther than we could have imagined!

He's by far THE FUNNIEST person in the house!

His speech is just beginning to take off. I think his favorite word is..."oooommmmm-aaaaaa" (mama)

Tonight we had a special little cake to celebrate our special little man!

Hopefully soon we will be able to get our China pictures off the netbook and onto the desktop computer.

I've put Kurt in charge of making a video of our gotcha day memories!

We are so blessed to have been chosen by Him to be Jackson's parents!

Happy Gotcha Day, Jackson Kuan! You are LOVED!

we're surviving...

the flu!

It started on Sunday with Jackson!

Then came Mama!

Then Jadon!

Then Sydney!

It's now Saturday!

Praying he's not next!

sledding!

The tired crew after a great afternoon sledding!

Sydney walking up the big sledding hill!

Jackson being pulled on the toddler sled. He LOVES the cold

weather and the snow!



This would be the BIG hill! It was actually a toboggan run!
It was extremely steep and 2 large dips in it! If you look at
the middle of the picture in the distance, you will see a tiny child in the
middle of the run starting to make their way back up!

This would be the same run my loving husband told me to go down with Jadon.

Let it be known that it was my first time sledding...E.V.E.R.!

I knew that it was steep and fast, but I figured I'd be ok since the kids did great!

Jadon and I went down together and it was scary and I was so glad we were almost done, until I realized that no one had told me how to make it go slower. The next thing I knew, the sled went flying out from under us and I held onto Jadon for dear life! Hoping that we would not go off of the track and into the trees!

Snow and ice were pelting our eyes and this mama was screaming! (Please remember that I was born/raised/have lived my entire life on the beaches of sunny Florida!)

By the time we stopped, I had my sweet 7 year old son crying and screaming at me, telling me that it was ALL my fault!

We then moved to the sledding hill!