National Adoption Month

November is National Adoption Month.

This year, November 15th is marked as

National Adoption Day to raise awareness of the thousands of children in foster care waiting to find permanent, loving families.

I would not be a mother if it weren't for the blessing of adoption and my children's amazing birthmoms.

We are so grateful for adoption and the chance it gives

Luke and I to grow our beautiful family.

We spent Saturday with our local chapter

Families Supporting Adoption

celebrating our appreciation of adoption.

Trick or Treat

Our two beautiful kids dressed in their

Halloween day outfits.

Miles is oh so happy thinking about all the candy

he'll be collecting in the evening.

I LOVE these kids :)

Cute, fluffy, white, sparkly Snowball

(a.k.a Masie)

Little waddling Penguin (a.k.a. Miles)
Picture with Dad
These pictures are in chronological order.

I put the kids in their costumes and then took them off (since they are most definitely costumes meant for cold climates) for the drive out to my brother Nathan's where we celebrated with his family. Miles fell asleep in the car before the festivities even began.

[I unbuckled Miles since we just arrived at our destination]
Ashlynn begged to be able to hold Masie for a picture...

this is the best shot we could get of all the kids in one frame.Miles's best buddy, Caleb, is hiding under the clown.The boys were very suspicious of one another and wouldn't stand too close because they didn't recognize each other in costume. It wasn't until Caleb took his wig/hat off that Miles followed him around shouting,

"It's Caleb, it's Caleb!"