Word for the Year

I've read several blogs in blogland that do a word or verse for the year!  I have been encouraged by these blogs and decided to give it a try.

My word: Trust

I am trusting you, O Lord, saying, "You are my God!" My future is in your hands.

Psalm 31:14-15

We were entrusted by his birthparents and by God to love and parent this sweet child:

He really did not want me to take his picture!

But then he changed his mind!

He was kind of grumping on and off!

After I snapped a few grumpy ones, he wanted to see them!

(I was trying out my new camera lens and I love it! I did very little editing on these photos!)

More Birthday Pictures

Remember back in June when I showed you a picture and asked you what I was doing? 

Click here for a review of the photo from June. 

 I was working on everything for Matthew's birthday party. 

Here are some pictures of my finished project and some more pictures from his birthday party on Friday night:

The Invitation:

See how the invitation says park?

Well you will notice that we didn't have the party at the park. 

 The weather just did not want cooperate with us so a few days before his party we moved it to our church.

Yes I had to call all of the guests to tell them about the change of plans. 

It only took me 3 hours to call everyone.

A picture of the banner that I made:

The cupcakes:

(PS Each cupcake (100) had a picture on it and there was only a couple repeat pictures.)

Matthew got a little stage fright when everyone sang to him and it took a lot of coaxing to get him to blow out his candles.

Remember the first birthday post how I talked about two every special people, here they are with Matthew:

Matthew with Sebastian (His birthfather)

Matthew with Adie (His birthmother)

We had a wonderful time with all of our guests!

Guess how many there were?

There was a lot!

Present opening time:

(PS: I'll only show you a few because I know you are busy and don't have all day to look at all of them.)

He got this really cool frame with his name on it.

An awesome John Deere shirt:

(It says: My Daddy's John Deere is bigger than Your Daddy's)

A Bible called: My Pajama Bible

(I'm weird-what can I say)

A Minnesota Vikings outfit:

A Mater (Disney Pixar Cars) book.

OH Yay!  Lots of Cars themed items!

He loved this book!

It was one of the first presents he opened and he didn't want to open anymore until he was done reading it.

These are all of the gifts:

Yes they took up most of our living room!

One of my favorites is on the right side of picture-Do you see the picture frame with his name on it?

Each letter is an opening for a picture!

I am so excited to fill it and hang it.

He is one spoiled loved little boy!

Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated with us!

PS Do you really want to know how many people were there?  There was 68 including me, Matthew and Scott.

Matthew's Birthday

Matthew turned 2 years old yesterday!
How did that happen so fast?  It seems just like yesterday that we were waiting for him to be born!  We were changed forever that day!  There are not enough words in this world to express to two very important people (Adie and Sebastian-Matthew's birthparents) just how happy that they made us!  Not only were we blessed with a wonderful son who we love to pieces and can't imagine our lives without but we were also blessed with lots of wonderful people who love Matthew and us and who we are so happy to now have as part of our family. 

 Open adoption is so wonderful! 

And now here are some pictures from Matthew's birthday:

(Don't worry there will be more to come after his BIG party tomorrow)

After he went to bed on Tuesday, I brought home some Lightening McQueen and Mater balloons!

He loves balloons!

He was pretty excited to see the balloons when he woke up yesterday!

Right away when he seen the balloons (or when he seen the big Lightening McQueen one) he said "KaChow". 

 He loves the Disney movie CARS!

He played and played with them as well as his new art easel that you can kind of see behind the balloons!

He loves the chalkboard!

Our birthday boy!

I still can't believe that he is 2!

He is so darn cute!

We had a very busy day!  Take notice from the above picture to the next picture his hair!

We went and got his hair cut along with mine, had lunch with daddy, had a blizzard from DQ, took a nap, dinner at playland McDonalds and then a small party with DQ ice cream cake at home.

Playing at Playland McDonalds!

He was in a really good mood!

Opening some presents!

He was really getting into it!

More opening!

Having Aunt K help him!

His new Lightening McQueen/Mater shoes that light up!

Mater legos!

His ice cream cake from DQ!

See the one purple dot?

That is my sister's signature!

(My sister works at the DQ and she happened to make his cake and put the purple dot (her favorite color) as her signature!)

Patiently waiting for his ice cream cake!

  

Thanksgiving

We are so thankful and so blessed!

We have so much to be thankful for and so many people in our lives to be thankful for.

We are so thankful that we are the parents of this wonderful little boy who has changed our lives. 

We are most thankful to both of his birthparents (Adie and Sebastian) for choosing us to be his parents and love him to pieces.  Which of course we do and we have even been told that we hold him and spoil him to much (NOT TRUE).

We are thankful for our parents!

We are thankful for our families and Matthew's birth families.

There is so much to be thankful for this year!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!