Family Pictures - FINALLY!

Our cute little family

Westen has been making the funniest faces for the past week. So glad we caught some! 

 Westen's two mommies!

 Maybe I am biased because he's my kid...but he is so stinking cute!

 Getting Family Pictures was the perfect way to spend Birth Mother's Day & Mommy's birthday!

 Happy Birth Mother's Day Audrey!!

 We are so grateful for Audrey and what she means to our family! Our family is better because she is in it! We are so proud of her! She is smart, hard working, beautiful...and she makes really cute babies!

Birth Mother's Day & Mommy's Birthday!

 This Weekend we went to the Birth Mother's Day walk with our families and with Westen's birth mom Audrey and birth grandma Barbara. Westen had a lot of fun running around with the other kids. (Don't you just love his cute little adoption shirt)

 



We are grateful that FSA (Families Supporting Adoption) plans this walk every year to honor birth moms! We took one walk around the track and then all of the adopted children released a balloon in honor of their birth moms.

 

 Seeing all of those balloons in the sky was awesome! That represents the love of a lot of birth families and adopted children!

 



Westen thought it was cool to watch his balloon float into the sky.

 

We are so grateful for supportive family and an amazing birth family that all recognize how cool adoption is and continue to support us and hang out with us! I can't think of a better way to spend my birthday than to be surrounded by people that I love and to be celebrating adoption!

Yay, It's May!

Grandma came over on friday to help us plant our flowers.

 

Lucky for her, she had a little helper that was pretty handy with a shovel!

Then Westen shared our water soakers with his neighbor friends...and came home soaked!

Today, Branden ran his second half marathon in Provo! (yes, we need a new camera...the shutters sometimes don't open all of the way after a little Mountain Dew spilling incident with our friends)

 

We surprised daddy and came to cheer him on near the finish line.

Then after the marathon, we took Westen to his first Parent-Tot swim class.

 

We are lucky to have such an involved daddy that isn't afraid to be the only dad in the class!

Westen learned how to blow bubbles in the water, splash his hands, float on his back and kick his legs and hold onto the side of the pool.

 

He loved his swim lessons until he saw the basketball hoop. So...after a minor meltdown, we had to abandon swim class to play with the basketball hoop.

 

And now....after a super busy weekend...we are all off to bed. Good night!