Birthday Girl

October 30th was Johanna's 3rd birthday and her first U.S. birthday! She had a fun "princess" day. We started off with a princess dress and crown that she wore all day, then had a princess breakfast. Which was really only cereal, but it's more fun when you are dressed up like a princess! We did crafts, baked a cake and made a special dinner. We also had a time of remembrance and said a prayer for her birth parents. Here are a few pics of our day.

He's Official!

Today we drove up to Boise to meet up with Anthony and see his swearing in for the army. He had been so nervous about all the testing, but he did really well and chose a great job that he is really excited about. Very strange feeling to have one of your kids becoming a soldier!
Here are a couple of pics from the swearing in.

We had a Chinese food night at our house this week. Laurel and I were pleasantly surprised at how good our food came out. Johanna insisted on using her little pink chopsticks, so I made her and Jonah the "kid" chopsticks like they do in the restaurants. The meal took twice as long to eat, but they had a great time with them.

Our First Snow!!

We had our first snow! It was much earlier than usual, and Laurel, Jonah, Johanna and I are probably the only people in the entire area who were excited! They were still at the tail end of their winter when we moved here in June and now snow in Oct. But we had a great time! I had to make sure I told Jonah to come in to eat, otherwise he was outside playing in the snow all day and skipping meals. (Who has time for meals with so much excitement?!) He even tried talking us in to taking our meals to the table outside. I didn't like the snow that much! The female goats Blossom and Emma didn't mind it at all, but Larry Boy, our big baby, tiptoed around in it like he was being tortured. Chuck was caught off guard with snow so early, and had to get right to work tonight after work building a real shelter for the goats. (Hopefully Larry will approve! Hee hee!)