Happy First Gotcha Day!

Can you believe it's been a year already?! On December 11th, we celebrated Noelle's first Gotcha Day! Ryan, Amy, Lilly, and Nate Gibbons came over to celebrate with us as it was Lilly's first Gotcha Day as well. The Gibbons have been another blessing from the Lord to our family. We had the priviledge of traveling with them to China and receiving our baby girls together. Noelle and Lilly are 7 days a part and are from the same city.

We dressed the girls in their Chinese clothes. As Noelle would say "Nese" clothes. We ate Chinese food for dinner, of course. We then let Maddie and Nate perform as this is what they like to do when we get together and then we all enjoyed some Gotcha Day cake.

It was a great time to reflect on the last year and think about how blessed we have been to have Noelle with us. We can not imagine not having her part of our family, she has been a true gift from the Lord. We love her SO much that words can not explain. We think she's pretty fond of us too! =)

Catch Up!

We have not been so good about updating our blog...but with the New Year right around the corner maybe we can turn over a new leaf.
We are all doing well. I will post some pictures and get everyone caught up in the next few post. I think we left off at the end of October.

Maddie went with her class on a field trip to the Pumpkin Patch. As well as she attended a fall carnival, which collected pajamas for children in foster care. She loved taking pajamas for the foster children and she had a great time getting her face painted and her hair painted pink. The weather was great through out the fall so Daddy and the girls were able to go to the park quite frequently.




We also attended our Church Fall Festival. The girls had a blast! Although it was VERY cold. Maddie dressed up like a fairy princess and Noelle was the cutest kitty cat you have ever seen. She acted very funny dressed as a kitty she became very serious, we could not even get her to smile and she was very upset when she had to take the kitty cat costume off. It was priceless. Oh how I wish we knew what she was thinking.

Maddie was able to go out on the football field again and this time dance with the Faith Lionettes. She loved it....being able to dance in front of an audience is a dream come true for her. I think we have a performer on our hands. One of the Lionette dancers, Laura, became quite fond of Maddie and Maddie thinks the world of her.

I guess that brings us to December. Maddie was in several Christmas performances. She was a Star in her school Christmas program. She also performed her worship dance that she has been working on for several months during the school chapel. She also performed at her Ballet, Tap, and Jazz class recital to Christmastime in Texas. She did great in all her performances we were so proud! As I mentioned she is quite the performer and LOVES an audience. I'm not sure where she got that trait as I would soon die then be front and center of a large audience. I think she gets it from her Dad, who loves to do public speaking! I don't get it =)

Noelle, although too young to have school/dance performances has been a huge "star" and performer at home. She does everything her big sister does. It's so cute to watch, she tries to dance, sing, and mimic everything Maddie does. She is delight and an even bigger ham than her sister!