Wow!!! Amazing!!! Awesome!!!

Just some words to describe all of the great news happening within our family circle.

A brother-in-law finally getting to adopt my niece

A new house almost finished

My daughter turning 18

My daughter finally getting used to college life

Getting VT done on the first week of the month

Getting the bigger furniture out of the storage

My MIL's birthday

First Thanksgiving in our new and more permanent home

Having a house of our own to clean and beautify

My nephew in Canada is now 3 months old and giggling

My nephew in San Jose, CA racking up class awards for Reading

Our trees finally turning colors

Each day is amazing, wow and awesome... How can I not be grateful?

Happy 8th Birthday, I-DUDE!

I can't believe that I'm a mother of three, much less a mother to my youngest who just turned 8 today! Our son, I-Dude will now face baptism, scouting and much more fun times ahead! I can't wait!

No pictures to be uploaded because we just installed Windows 7 and Office is not quite installed yet, much less Picasa. So... I'll have to redo a post-birthday post about his birthday this year!

We started to celebrate yesterday, I made him brownies and gooey cupcakes and spaghetti with sausage and texas toast. Things he loves to eat! Today, we didn't get to do much since Mr. Man had to work so we just had ice cream and a song. I also made him one of his favorites, fried rice!

They call this his GOLDEN YEAR. I would have to agree.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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From our whole family!

Tina Wilbur- for losing 30lbs. and going to college! Yes!

Lara Neves- for getting that bigger load of voice lesson students! You'll do great! And for all the blog awards! Good job!

Crystal & Spencer Eldredge- for Sage's 6th-month of joining their family. He's adorable!

Debbie Kimball- for becoming a Real Estate Broker! Yay!!!

Audrey Peterson- for getting a blog award. Cool!

Becky & Nate Evans- for making the residency in Ohio and getting a new van. And, for surviving some pretty stressful times. Awesome news!

Lori & Scott Thompson- for their 10th year anniversary! Awesome milestone!

Stephanie & Matt Bean- for Preston's 3rd birthday and having a creative way to appease all the VLPs (Very Little People)! I'll so do that! And for having a great picture of her kids on her blog header. So, so cute!

Mandi & Burke Larsen- for Matthews's 2nd birthday! A new milestone!

Carla and Luc Engstrom- for becoming pregnant again! Yay!!

Can I get a "woot-woot!" with raised hands up in the air for these unbelievable and honorable women? That's it!