Gacie and Wivy

Dancin' with cousin Gracie, Taylor had already taken off his costume.

Miss Emma above and Miss Gracie (or little Riley) below

Olivia the grim reaper.....oooh!

Our nieces Gracie and Livy (or as Taylor says Gacie and Wivy) and also little Emma came over to go trick-or-treat with us and they always have such a good time.....as you can see.

Big Boy in his Big Bed

Still a work in progress but Taylor slept in his new Big Boy room for the first time last night. He was too cute in his big bed!! Today I get to start painting the other room ~pink~!!

One track mind

So as you know 2 weeks ago we were DTC and 2 weeks ago I ordered a care package for Rachel Lian and then 1.5 weeks ago I was contacted by email by the person in China who fills your order that the package was put together and being sent. As you my also remember I requested for them to ask for pictures. So over the weekend I couldn't stand it anymore and emailed her and just asked for an update and I was told that the orphanage said they would take some pictures for us :))) with Rachel and her cake/care package. So now I continue to check my email obsessively and when I am not home I wish I were at home so I could check it and when I wake up in the morning it's the first thing I go do....OK maybe the second. Then before I go to bed I check one more time. Can anyone relate??

Sunday with friends

Taylor and one of his buddies and his class and teachers below.


Iwas mad that I messed up this shot, it would've been a great picture.

Another buddy, seems like his best buddies are girls!!

Wow-we have had one of those weekends with lots of activity. Yesterday was just non-stop house stuff and then in the afternoon we went to a Halloween party and Taylor got to dress up. It was alot of fun...but I did forget my camera. Friends of ours do this party every year and it is very kid friendly which I love and we had a great time. They had a pinata, pin the mouth on the Jack-O-Lantern and a mummy race. Then we ended the night with a hay ride. They also had a big fire and we roasted hot dogs.

Today was a trip back to the pumpkin farm, but today we met all of Taylor's daycare buddies and their parents. Since I never get to meet children or parents since I don't drop off or pick Taylor up this was good for me. After the pumpkin farm we went back to the daycare for another weenie roast and we made smores over the fire. We have never made those and they were yummy!!

I love my weekends off with my guys!!

funny conversation

So the other day we were running errands and Taylor asked where we were going next and I said we are going to the bank to vote....
he says "wha the votin do?"
I said "well you vote for the President"
he says "wha the President do?"
I said "well the President runs our country"
he says "what the country do?"
I said "the country is where we live"
he says "I know"

a couple more pics

This picture is from back in July, I love it!

This picture was part of her referral pics....look at those cheeks!
I made this collage on Picasa (it's on our desktop, and in my purse)

Intruducing 'lil sis'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rachel Lian Youyi Hewgley

We are officially DTC (dossier to China) today, one week earlier than expected!!! As soon as I found out I got online and ordered a care package for lil miss. We used http://ladybugsnlove.com/index.php for this service. They will ask for pictures for us but we are not guaranteed to get any, so we will pray that we are given the gift of a glimpse at our baby girl. She was 10-12 months old in the photos above and she is almost 19 months old today. If we don't get any updated photos before we travel we won't even be able to recognize her!! Either way, we now know what is at the other end of this paper chase and it will all be OK!!

Pumpkin Fun

We spent all morning painting and working on Taylor's new room, we still have another coat of paint but hope to get it looking more like a room later in the week. Once I get him moved over then I get to start painting with pink!! I have collected things here and there for lil sis and I cannot wait to start putting it all together.

This evening we went to the Pumpkin Farm and Taylor really enjoyed himself. He got to pick out a pumpkin this year and we carved it once we got home.

He found 'the one' and then got to go on a little train ride.

We have a runner folks

You little piggie...

I don't know why but sometimes when Taylor is eating alot we will say 'you little piggie' and every time we say that, this is what he does... He puts up little ears???

helping the slow moving train

So when you do adoption paperwork everything has to be notarized or certified. Then before sending it to the country that you are adopting from you have to have the notaries certified at the courthouse or county clerks office in the county that the notary is registered. Then you have to take those and go to the Secretary of State's office and have every document authenticated. So today I had to go to our local courthouse then take Taylor to speech, then go to Nashville to the county clerks office and then head downtown to the Secretary of States office and then I still had time to get it fedexed back to my dossier consultant and so I stopped at the Franklin fedex and sent it back. Now it has to go through the consulate and the China consulate.....I think and my dossier consultant will handle that. Only after that is complete can we finally send our dossier to China. My dossier consultant could've handled the county and state part but knowing I could do it all in a day and have it back to her the next instead of maybe taking her a couple of weeks to send it to one place and then wait for it to come back and then send it to another.....I just couldn't waste all that time. There is very little control that you have in your adoption as far as the timeline so any chance I have to do something I do it. It makes me feel good and somewhat productive and somewhat helpful in getting to China quicker. I can't believe it is October and I know we will have her in our arms before we know it....I just can't wait!!