Adopting Again

So, we again begun starting the process of international adoption. We are looking at Ukraine and going independently through Ukrainian Angels. Everything so far has been very quickly. Our Homestudy is done and our fingerprints have been taken by INS. We are working on our Dossier right now but it looks much easier than Russia. We do have a couple of obstacle but we know that we will be able to overcome. We are going to the temple tonight to get some spiritual strength and maybe some answers. We love Ukrainian Angels already and we haven't even signed up with them yet. They are so helpful and other people that have previously adopted from AZ have already email me with promises of any help they can give me. Pretty cool.

Daniel's Birthday

Daniel turned 6 on January 31st.
This happened to be on a
Saturday so he was able to have
his birthday party on his actual
birthday. It was
pretty cool. We had it at Xtreme
Play and Daniel invited lots of
friends from school, church and
the neighborhood.

First they played video games

Kate's First Birthday

Yesterday, Kate turned one. She had a big party with a BBQ and pink cupcakes. She tasted sugar for the first time which Courtney was forced into. She was so good and was a little social butterfly. Daniel was a little overprotective and wasn't too sure if he liked all the people holding her and playing with her.

Christmas Breakfast at Gary and Kathy's

First, we ate a wonderful breakfast of eggs, pancakes, sausage, hashbrowns and juice. Then, we opened presents from Courtney, the Grandparents and each other. Then, we played with the presents and video games. We had lots of fun!

Christmas Morning at the Rhodes

Jill and Daniel

Daniel and John

Family Picture

We finally had a

family photo and

Daniel made a weird

face and John and I

forgot to smile. We

are going to try again

with a friend of ours

for Christmas pictures.

We will see!

Happy Halloween

We were planning on all going as

Star Wars characters this year.

Daniel was Boba Fett, Kate was

Yoda, Michael was Darth Vader and

Courtney, John and I were suppose

to be Jedi Knights. We just had some

difficulty all dressing up at the same

time. Here are some pictures of our

Trunk or Treat and Halloween Night.