Callie's Adoption

We are officially a legal family of four. We adopted Callie on December 17, 2010 at 8:45 a.m. in Judge David Clark's court. The adoption went well even with me doing it pro se. I was terrified that I was mess the whole process up and the Judge would be upset. The whole thing went great and all the paperwork is filed. Now we are on to the last step of filing for Certificate of Citizenship for our youngest daughter. Attached are a few pictures from the event.

Thanksgiving and Start of Christmas Season

Callie celebrated her first Thanksgiving with her forever family! She loved all the food and attention. We went to my parents' house for Thanksgiving and had a real small attendance. Only my parents, my family and my brother, his girlfriend and her daughter showed up. As usual, Jenny ate very little-some mac and cheese and a whole piece of chocolate pie. Callie made up for what Jenny left behind! I posted pictures that help describe the day.

I bought the cutest Christmas outfits for the girls this year. Callie has a cute tulle red skirt with white tights that have penguins, a penguin top and cardigan and the best part boots that have penguins on the toes. For Jenny, I bought red and white striped tights and red and white striped cardigan (the Olivia the Pig look). I paired that with a cute top that said "smitten with daddy", blue jean skirt and red boots. I was so excited to dress them up and take their pictures to create Christmas cards. No luck! Both of the girls cried and carried on and refused to be merry! So, I've posted the pictures that made it to the Christmas card. However, the girls are wearing those outfits for Christmas and will be MERRY!!!! (I figure I will lose that battle, but I'm still going to try.)