What it Means to Love: Caleb

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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Jimmy's Benefit

Tonight was Jimmy's benefit. I blogged about the benefit/him here. There was a great turnout, but no total yet!

Rachel and I had a table of our stuff, including some Ghana flag themed items. :) The donation basket on our table (we did prices labeled as suggested donation, not actually sold it) $166 for Jimmy!! Praise God! Ironic thing is, that's the same amount as our farmers market last weekend for Lilly! :)

The tables all set up, ready for lots of people to eat lots of pie!

And the pies.... yes, I'm being cruel and making you hungry. Bwahaha (evil laugh)! ;]

All the people watching the groups that played tonight...

In Harmony...

Con Brio...

Don Shire...

And the Ott Family led several songs at the end, one of which I will share when my ridiculously SLOW internet finally finishes the 1 min 30 sec video after 2 hours. No, I'm not joking.

And then there's the fun in the nursery! :) My little 3 sibs - Elijah, Rachel, Jonathan, my mom, "big" Rachel, and half of the Prevost family, including Caleb! :)

It was an awesome night to bring an awesome little boy home!!

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Elijah and Caleb

Elijah and Caleb are in the same classroom at school (with Carter)...

But when they saw each other last night at Awana, they were a bit confused about why the other was here. They definitely knew each other though, and they were so cute together! Elijah got very insulted (all drama) when Caleb touched his face (he signed Caleb - a C across his forehead), and Caleb was copying almost everything Elijah did.

One from Ukraine, one from China (which one is which?? hmm....). Both rocking their extra chromosomes. Love these boys!

P.S. You can go visit Caleb's mama's blog here.
P.S.S. If you paid attention to the background of the videos, you may have noticed cowboy hats and bandannas... not typical, it was dress up like a farmer night. ;)

Monday, July 30, 2012

NDSC - Saturday and Sunday

My last two days in DC! :( The main part of the conference was all day Saturday and Sunday morning. I didn't attend any sessions, but had fun hanging out at the RR table with everyone. You may think that's a bit crazy to go all the way to DC for a convention and not go to any sessions, but you would understand how awesome it is just to hang out if you had been there! :)

Saturaday morning, after dropping the girls of at Kid's Camp, Brian, Braden and I went to see some more museums. Our first stop was....

....here - the International Spy Museum. But there wasn't photography allowed. It was really cool though, the history of spying. Of course there was a lot about the Cold War, WW1 and WW2, but there was also about the Civil War. You wouldn't think about spies in the Civil War, but there were!

Then we were here - the Archives. And no photography there either. :P Seeing the Declaration and Constitution was really neat!

Then we went to the American History Smithonian Museum. I took quite a few pictures, but the only ones of interest are this sewing machine from 1917....

....and Braden and I by the Ruby Red Slippers! The ones I got of the original Kermit the Frog puppet didn't turn out that well.

Back at the conference.. hanging out at the table - Charlotte Dirkes!

Dusty Hinz attacking Molly....

....with kisses. Molly was in heaven if you can't tell. :)

Molly and Sonya Hinz

Zoya B

Back at the hotel room, saying goodbye to Lococo's - Lilya was glad someone was finally willing to help her flip!

Elizabeth and Dax

Caleb and Lilya

Ruby wanted to do flips too, so she got Mrs. Lococo to do it with her. :)

Mr. Lococo and Julia, who is from Ukraine. :)

Ruby's reaction when Caleb told her that they had to say goodbye because he was going to go back to his house, and she was going to go back to hers. :(

All was soon right in her world again... She loves Caleb and Josh!

And Elizabeth too!

Early Sunday Morning - Me, Molly, and Elizabeth right before Molly left

Saying one last goodbye to Lococo's

Lilya and I, Caleb and Ru, Braden, Elizabeth, and Josh

Back down at the table again - Dusty and Sonya

Andrea and Michelle - The 2 main leaders of Reece's Rainbow

Right before our flight left Daxy had several diaper explosions (he would not stop!) and he ran out of outfits.... so we resorted to Ruby's spare outfit... going from 3 mo to 4T was quite a jump in sizes! It doesn't look to bad here, but trust me, it was pretty huge! ;)

The flight was uneventful, and this was looking out the window to the parking garage on the way back to the van. I took this one for Rachel, because it says 'Yellow 3G'. Lilly is in region "3G", and her color is yellow. It was perfect!