After 4+ years of waiting, our dream of becoming parents is finally a reality! We wanted to be able to share this journey with our friends and family via this blog. We were blessed with the birth of our embryo adopted daughter Makenna Lee on June 2, 2010. We were doubly blessed on October 14, 2013 when Alexander Brooks was born. Alexander and Makenna are genetic siblings and we are so very thankful to their Texas Fan Club for sharing the gift of life with us!
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Giggles
Someone's got a serious case of the giggles:) She doesn't laugh this hard very often so I was excited to be able to get it on video.
Monday, April 4, 2011
First Spaghettios
Daddy's only comments when I forwarded him a picture of this..... Its bath night, right?
Go Brewers!!
Thanks for the dress Grandma and Grandpa Best!! Its the PERFECT size for this season!!
Love the smiles!
Hmmmm, who is going to be my favorite racing sausage this year??
Definitely the Italian!!
GGOOOOO Brewers!
Alright Brew Crew, let's bring an opening day win, ok?
Sunday, April 3, 2011
10 month update
This last month has definitley gone by the quickest! I'm not sure if its tax season getting the best of us or the fact that she is just so much fun these days!! Every month I say I don't want her to get any bigger and then she gets bigger & the next stage is even more fun. First things first, here are the 10 month pics:

This month's shot with Mr. Monkey was a little tougher.....
First it was the books enticing her....

So I gave her my cell phone to get her to sit still, but that didn't work very well either...
And there she goes again, so proud of herself!
This is one of the only ones I got of her sitting nicely by the monkey - such a silly look on her face!
I did get this one of her standing by Mr. Monkey, too
When I finally did get her to sit, Bugey came on it to chase her away with his kisses
Nothing like a few naked baby shots, too:)
Scored this fun new little mirror at a rummage sale for a buck
Mom, I'm gonna kill you if you show this to anybody!
So, what's my little 10 month old up to? LOTS!!
-She finally started crawling this month and the past few weeks has gotten pretty quick. Its all she wants to do when I put her down. Melts my heart to see her crawling towards me, looking for me to give her a big hug:)
-She babbles and babbles and babbles some more. Her latest favorite is a cute little aaAAaah (that's really hard to spell out the way it sounds), but is super cute and its her little way of telling us she's excited. She does it all the time.
-She's started with so big and paddycake all by herself. She'll clap and sign more when I'm feeding her and say "ma", which I'm pretty sure is her more.
-She started waving bye bye too and is so proud of herself when she does it
-She is a social little butterfly. Between last weekends wedding and a few showers I took her to this weekend, its so funny to watch her show off in front of new people. Its like she knows she's cute and so when they tell her, she smiles the biggest smile at them. She sure knows how to turn on the charm!
-Still only her 2 bottom teeth, but I have a feeling the top ones are going to be here any day now.
-She loves books. She'll sit on your lap so nicely and listen to you read to her and when you are done she'll sit and flip the pages back and forth. She LOVES it!
-She's really starting to recogize Grandma and Grandpa and Oma and Papa. Its SO sweet to see her face light up when they come over! I think she's got all 4 of them wrapped around her little finger:)
-She's started a little bit with stranger snuggles, when she sees someone new and I'm holding her, she'll snuggle toward me all shy and then pick her head up and smile really big. I love it- the snuggles are the best!
-She's REALLY looking forward to the end of tax season as are mommy and daddy!!
We love you Kenna girl!!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Random pics
Just found a bunch of cute pics so I thought I'd get them up here...
Reading fun with Adelyn and Ellie!
Playing nicely with Adelyn
Visiting daddy for lunch (I love this pic)
Playing with Oma
Fun with mama
A few weeks ago it was snowing the BIGGEST snowflakes so I couldn't resist taking her outside to let them melt on her face. She LOVED it!! My little snowflake:)
Hanging out with Grandpa
Look at me go Papa!!
MMmmmmm Papas orange soda:)
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
party time!
Our friends Ian and Kristen got married yesterday!
We clean up pretty nice, eh?
Makenna LOVED spending the day with her daddy!
And Mommy's not too bad either...
Such a sweetie!
I'm gonna get that flower!!!
Daddy lovin' on his Kenna girl. I LOVE the look on his face in this one. That was how he kept looking at her all day:) I'm glad I caught it on camera!
Woah, stairs - teach me how to climb them daddy...
Are you coming?
Happy girl!
Yes, that is the second dress she had on for the day. The first one got a little spit up on it so I changed her after the service only to have her spitup on this one, too. Just when we thought she was getting better. Oh well, she rocked the dress anyway!
Daaaddddy, you are squishing my face!!
Kenna's first disco ball sighting.... she couldn't take her eyes off it!!
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