Off to St. Louis for a long weekend...

We had a good time visiting a city that we had never been to together this last weekend. We took a long four day weekend and had a fun visit to the Gateway to the West.

Outside the Gateway Arch

Dad and his two big kids

Jorge and Lucy looking down at planet earth from the top of the Arch

Joe getting his first look from the top of the arch

Of course we couldn't miss the "Dinoraurus" exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo. Jorge knows all the dinosaurs and would tell us what they were before we even got to them.

Dad and kids in front of Jorge's favorite - the Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex for short)

Jorge and Lucy see one of the Elephants

Mom, Lucy and a grumpy Jorge by the Giraffes

The Sea Lions were amazing

This guy could even ring the overhead bell

Shelly, Lucy and Jorge in front of the tank that had the hippopotamus's in it.

What a fun weekend - topped off by Joe taking his first stroll

He's not quite to walking very far yet, but he made great strides this weekend and will no doubt be getting around by himself in no time. He has come so far in such a short time. When we got him he couldn't crawl and he is almost walking already. What a fun weekend it was - look at the short clips below...

More fun in the Indiana summer sun...

Jorge Graduates Pre-K

Jorge's class on graduation day

Our proud graduate

Jorge and his friend Caleb

Jorge and his friend Christopher

The happy family (Joe look at the camera and smile...:-)

Big Joe Sleeping and Playing

Just like Dad!

What a cutie!

A day at the Zoo over Memorial Day weekend - The Girls

Lucy and Katie

Katie, Mary and Lucy with the kangaroos

Lucy and Mary

Cousin Abby

A day at the Lake over Memorial Day weekend - The Boys

Jorge and his cousin Patrick

Uncle Bob enjoying the afternoon

A day at the Indianapolis Childrens Museum

Jorge, Lucy and a dinosaur skeleton

Play dough

beautiful pictures of dinosaurs

That's a big slide Lucy!

The kids and Spidey

Super Lucy

Our First Boating Adventure

Well, here is our new boat. We headed up to the lake on Saturday to take it out for the first time. Everyone was very excited. Our salesman took us out and explained all the ins and outs of the boat and lake to Rob. Then we took him back to the dock and headed out on our own. Everything went great. The kids loved it and Mom and Dad managed to make it through without one harsh word to each other (even when we were docking it). We can't wait for some warmer weather to really have some fun!
One more thing.....Yes, Shelly's family, those are Bengal colors. When we decided to purchase the boat, Jorge said, "I don't want that boat because it has the Bengal's colors".

Jorge and Lucy love to sit up front but they are only allowed to when we are going slow.

Here's Captain Rob with his first mate!

Lucy ended up falling asleep and slept almost the whole time we were out.
Jorge, Mom and Joe chillin' in the back.

Visit with Friends

Last Thursday we had some friends come visit during the day while Jorge and Lucy were home from school. Angie, her two children and niece came up to meet Joe. We met Angie and Shannon while we were going through the adoption process with Jorge. We all ended up in Guatemala together bringing our boys home. We had a great visit. The kids had a blast playing together at the house and then even more fun when we went to Crazy Pins. As you can see, Lucy is missing from the photo as this was taken right before they were leaving and Lucy had a melt down and refused to participate.

Here's a picture of the Guatemalan boys.....Aden, Jorge and Joe. I love Aden's pose! Too funny!

I'm just so darn cute!

I just can't help put these adorable pictures of Joe on here. I don't get many good shots because as soon as I get the camera out, he stops smiling. I finally got one I thought was a keeper.

Getting ready for some boating fun!

Well....Mom and Dad went nuts! They decided to buy a boat! We decided a few weeks ago that we wanted to have a lot of outdoor family fun this summer and what better way to do that than spend weekends on a lake? We are so excited about all the fun we will have this summer with the kids. Jorge and Lucy are very excited. They got to pick out their life jackets and of course, they picked Dora and Spidey. We just hope that Joe enjoys it as much!

Swimming with the fish

We made another trip to the zoo. We are trying to take advantage of Mom's time off and do as much outside things as we can. We finally got some nice weather and decided to go to the zoo for the afternoon. Here are my darlings posing in front of the big fish tank. They wouldn't sit in front of th shark tank ever since Mom scared them while they were looking at the sharks.

Grandma's big boy!

Joe got to spend some quality time with Grandma while we went to the game. The next day we took our friends to the Buckeye Cafe for lunch and Aunt Michelle got this awesome picture of Grandma with Joe. Grandma likes to carry Joe around to get an upper body workout!

Soccer Fun!

We attended our first professional soccer game. Jorge and Lucy were very excited. Jorge kept asking if he was going to play and we had to tell him that this game was only for grown ups. We had a great time. Here are a few pictures from the game.

Could Dad be any happier?

OK, Maybe he could.
That's my girl......eating cotton candy! I seem to remember a little girl about 30 years ago loving the pink sugar!
Here's the post cotton candy picture. Lucy is a pink mess while Jorge seemed to keep his blue (of course, what other color would Jorge choose?) cotton candy under control. Thank goodness for wet wipes!