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Has it really been a month???

Sorry Mom didn't realize it had been 4 weeks. We really need Skype so we can talk face to face every week. Anyway here are some pics of my angel baby with horns! LOL joke...sometimes!!!
And as alot of you know I went to Guatemala for a weekend vacation and to get back to my daughter's birth country, I love it there....Even now more than ever!

Madisyn on Wyatt's birthday, She is facinated with birthday party's!!

And her just being silly, Next the bag went on my head, Oh the stuff we do for our kids! lol

The NEW Guatemala City Airport

BEAUTIFUL...is all I can say!

For all my girls out there......"CHICKEN BUS"

My life is like a rose...

Kinda Thorny....Just kidding, But our rose bushes is blooming and they are beautiful!

I have nothing amazing to report, We are living life the best we can.

A beautiful Pink Rose....This rose is hugh!

Very Proud of my Roses...We are going to build a rose garden in the front yard

Bring on the rain....Beautiful

Happy Valentine's Day 2009

Blog Lag...Is that Possible?

My sisters baby was born on the 4th...She is adopting him from the birthmom. He is a hugh chunker he is cracking us up! I know I have nothing else to report....Pretty boring right now!

Jonathan Taylor Reeves
9 lbs 4 ozs
20 inches long

Favorite Foto Friday #74= NEW

This weeks Favorite Foto Friday is NEW....So I thought I would find some photo's from Christmas when my family received there NEW Christmas gifts. Since I am the one always running the camera there are none of me, Thank God.

Jed was happy to get his NEW Fire pit...He has been wanting one and we use it every weekend. The best purchase I ever made!

Madisyn with her NEW Tricycle or as she calls it a BYCYCLE...

Her NEW computer...Look at her fingers do you think she watches Mom?

And her NEW Dora Backpack...She loves that thing and it hold alot of toys!

My Beautiful Girl........I love her more and more everyday!

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Madisyn is getting so fun, She is at the stage where you can bribe her to get her to do things. For instance Jed was outside making a fire and she wanted to go out, He told her she had to wait until he had it built so that he could keep an eye on her and he would be back in to get her.
Well she didn't like the fact that she had to wait, SO Mommy to the rescue...See we went and met a friend today who adopted a Brother/Sister sibling group from Vietnam, SO I had Madisyn all dressed cute for the First Impression thing you know, SO Mommy told her that if she left me get some GOOD pics then I would take her outside, She happily agreed. Now for the Cuteness....

Here you go Mom...CHEESE

Madisyn wanted her pic with the kitty too...Our cat Dililah is almost 7 years old.

One more CHEESE....

And a Sweet Hug for Dililah....Madisyn loves her kitty

Picture Post: A day at the Park.....

Okay so we took Madisyn to the park the other day, It's a really nice park since the City redid the whole thing. IT has a section for kids 5-12 and a section for kids 2-5 which makes it nice because our little tots aren't getting ran over by BIG kids. She loved it of coarse and it was a fighting battle to get her to leave. Her daddy got alot of NO, I wanna Play, Choo Choo Train, NO!!

This was this morning....She is in the OH famous CHEESE when she see's a camera!

Just a Swingin...

ALL ABOARD

ARE YOU SERIOUS....I don't wanna leave

The TOT part ages 2-5

The Big kid part...ages 5-12

She did the slide over and over, she loved that she could do it all by herself

Here I go, Watch Momma/Daddy

Ha Ha Momma said we could stay a little while longer..."SUCKER"

FAVORITE FOTO FRIDAY #71= Favorite 2008 Foto

This weeks theme was your favorite foto from 2008 I had several but I choose this one because it was the day after Grace was taken from us and I needed Madisyn to have a good time at the beach to keep my mind off of losing Grace. We had a fantastic time and Madisyn loved the beach!

WOW.....Laminin

WOW is all I can say.....

Watch THIS...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4zgJXPpI4

Goodbye Circus, Hello Retreat.....

Okay so I'm sure the Orange Stripes on the walls made you guys as sick as they did me, You could have told me I wouldn't of cared. Just kidding, But they did make me feel as if I were entering a Circus every time I walked into the room. So I took the left over paint I had and made it a retreat rather than a circus. Now our boy has the most calmest place to lay his head!

Here is the dresser/All ready for him

The Toffee Wall, matches his bedding perfectly

His Crib with his bedding and his Dino Roll Toy

Where the Toffee wall meets the Tan wall

Another View, This looks amazing....We LOVE it

The Singing Christmas Tree....

Here are some photo's of the singing Christmas tree, The whole show was awesome. Madisyn really liked it, Lots of music and singing which she really enjoyed. A 5 year old girl sang the whole song "I could only Imagine", Which was totally awesome. Well here are the pics..Hope you enjoy!

The whole Tree - the people in it.

I think we have a musician on our hands, This girls loves piano's and drums.

Miss America, NOT....We were playing around with Tom's roses.

And really the Future " Miss America"

The tree all lite up....IT was beautiful

Merry Christmas Blogger friends from Our Family to Yours

A weekend GetAway......

So we went to Jed's Uncles house this weekend in Jupiter Florida. We had a blast, we visited a Singing Christmas Tree at the St Peter Catholic Church down there, It was awesome and Madisyn loved it. We lived like Kings and Queens for a couple days, His uncle waited on us Hand and Foot,
Thanks Uncle Jode.
We are getting our last minute Christmas stuff done before it hits us in 3 days...Actually 2 because we celebrate at my father's on Christmas Eve.

Here are some photo's from our trip...This was when we first got there and he wasn't there yet so we waited outside and Madisyn was less than thrilled.

After 2 hours in the truck....Not a happy baby

Only Dora can make a baby that happy....That Quick

Mommy and Madisyn 2008

My Beautiful Angel watching Dora....Waiting on Great Uncle Jode

SNOW in Florida NO WAY.......Christmas 2008

Today we took Madisyn to what Florida calls snow, A big pile of ICE.. We had a local Christmas celebration and so we took Madisyn down to see Santa and get a glimpse at her first Snow. She talked all day about making Snow angels until she got there, Then she said it was too Cold. Jed had on Sandals tonight, I mean it was 81' today, So his feet were more than frozen and you guessed right I laughed about it...It is WAY to HOT to be Christmas Week...

Well here are some pics for your enjoyment.

I love this picture...Look Mommy, It's SNOW

This Stuff is Cold Daddy, Get me the Hell Up...

Before she realized how cold it was

A Giant Snowball...

My Precious Angel with Santa...Christmas 2008, She went right up and said HI Santa

Before we got in the truck, She is all ready to go see SNOW

Mommy and Madisyn beside a HUGH Christmas Tree

Daddy and Madisyn by the same Tree...

The most precious Picture ever...They were both mesmerized by each other...LOL

I don't know how to stay caught up.....

Okay can anyone stop the time? I don't know where it goes....The weekend of the 5th we went to a parade and then the 6th we went to Jed's company Christmas party....It was a blast but of coarse I was controlling the camera and didn't get any pics of Jed & I. We have some awesome neighbors who is actually kin to Jed's Step mom but we all love them, Including Madisyn she absolutely loves them...she calls Tommy (Baldy) he is bald headed. LOL

Madisyn at the Parade....

Madisyn with Skylar and "Baldy"

Madisyn with Laurie

The Christmas Parade

And the Christmas Party, Our Friends Gary and his wife.

HAPPY HOLIDAY'S

Favorite Foto Friday a week late...LOL

My weeks run together so I am a week late on my Thankfulness FFF....

Here are a few of the things I am thankful for this year..

Jayden and Madisyn, If it wasn't for me watching Jayden I wouldn't be able to stay home with Madisyn so therefore I am Thankful for that.

And a Family Thanksgiving Shot...We tried to put Madisyn in the middle but this was one of those days when I am a little less than Chicken S&@T...You know what I mean?

Sometime's when her daddy is around I mean absolutly nothing, So we just deal with it...
I'm also very Thankful for my husband...He is a hard worker and because of him we have what we have.

I love you Honey!!!

When does it go Away.....

When does the desire to adopt and have children go away? Me & Shelby was talking about this the other night and I'm curious myself to see what others have to say....My desire to parent children and collect them up like aluminum cans will not go away! As hard as I fight it, through the tears, and the arguments, The desire is still so very deep in my heart. I can't make it cease. When I read Corey's blog post today it broke my heart into about a thousand different pieces for those children of Guatemala...About a month after Madisyn came home we wanted so badly to do another child from Guate and then the problems started and No money we couldn't do it then. But now that I see all the problems and the children on the streets begging for Food...They aren't asking for Littlest Pet Shop's and Thomas the Tank Trains, They are asking for Bread and water so they can live. No one knows how this rips my heart out of my chest. I would love to go back to Guatemala but I'm afraid I would be traumatized Seriously....My heart already hurts.

Wordless Wednesday Almost.....

So the kids are out of school this week so Austin came to visit. He doesn't come over often so we enjoy every minute he is here. He has alot going on with his life, He weight lifts, is just starting Tae Kwan Doe, and not to mention is 15 and totally into Girls. Where did my lil man go?

Austin and Madisyn

Okay so these are totally outta order but did you expect anything less from me?

The New Nursery

The bedding set

The Striped walls with the Changing table...A gift from Church

This is the first wall I painted...So this was the beggining.

PRE- Paint

We had old intercom systems in our home so Jed had to repair the hole for the stripes.

Our new Master Bathroom Finished

Another View

Our Beautiful Bedding...

View of the Bed....

Not so Wordless but Anyways....... HAPPY TURKEY DAY from the REAVER Family.....

Man Where did Time Go?

Okay can someone tell me how it has been two weeks since I blogged? I guess keeping 3 toddlers and 1 infant almost 5 days a week you don't have much time for anything else. So we finally got our New master bedroom finished so our old master we are converting to a Nursery for the "just in case" factor...It will happen one day, And in God's timing would be perfect for us. So we will prepare and sit and wait. In the meantime we are enjoying the heck outta Madisyn. She is getting so funny, She does still have her crying episodes, But honestly I think it has alot to do with her age. Does your 2-3 year old have crying episodes? Feel free to share with me...So here are the left over pics from Halloween, I couldn't take many because I was by myself and had to hold her hand, and then when we did get to the Halloween Party of coarse she wouldn't let anyone hold her except me...So there is your lack of pictures...

The first house and Madisyn picking her Candy....My little Pirate Princess

At the Halloween Party....Sitting on my lap enjoying a Sucker

And one more of Madisyn sitting on a BIG ole' Pumpkin....Oh Hell that's just her Mommy
Isn't my baby the cutest thing Evah.....

I will post pics of the New master, and the Old Master tomorrow...We LOVE our new room it is so big....

ONE YEAR AGO Today....

One year ago today, This precious angel entered the world of uncertainty....IT would be a mere 6 weeks later that she entered our lives and would spend the next 4 months.
After that 4th month her Father came for her and took her away from us, She no longer is living here in the US, She lives in Puerto Rico with her Aunt.

She is Gone from our lives forever but she will never be Forgotten...

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY BABY GRACE.....