summertime...

has the summer flown by for anyone else? i can't believe its almost august. and i can't believe i've posted almost nothing about our summer! prepare for a huge update:

we had a great laid back father's day weekend in early june. we met my dad down in sonoita, arizona for a afternoon of wine tasting. this is one of our favorite's, but we found a new place that served their port with a tasting of fudge. now, fudge is one of the keys to my husband's heart and he ended up taking a bottle of the port home. afterward we headed back down to sierra vista for dinner at my dad's, followed by a round or two of wii sports.

i'm not sure janet understood what she was getting herself into when we got out the wii. if you've met dave than you know that he is competitive..in anything. eating, volleyball, cards...wii.

 now, i think we played bowling first and there was a lot of trash talking to be heard, mostly by dave. but this clearly shows that janet came out on top, followed by dave, myself, and beniah.

beniah had fun trying to bowl with janet.

after his loss, dave had to choose a sport he knew he could come out on top in:home run derby.

 and poor beniah didn't realize playing wii with dada could cause such whiplash. (i'm sorry this video is sideways)

we also spent some late afternoons at clements pool-love the beach entry. i can sit on the shore and beniah (and rylan when hes with us) can essentially explore freely. 

 swinging with papa

 family photo

 tired boys after some intense swimming

 hanging out at the "beach"

we also got to see family friends domi and ebby while they were in town. tia domi loves niah and spoils him every second they are together. we had fun at the party-beniah loved chasing the other kids around and dancing with them.

sputter, sputter, sput

b has a new favorite book. on our weekly trip to the library i am always surveying the shelves for books that b will love-cars, trucks, trains...you get the idea. i'm still amazed that i find new ones each time. and this one, "sputter, sputter, sput" was a hit!

celebration

we received word this morning that our homestudy has been approved and sent to korea! this means we are about a third of the way through our journey to bring our next child home.

i made a point at work this past week of saying that i was "expecting". that got a couple of gasps and questions of whether i was pregnant, but i explained that we too are expecting a child soon. while the parameters around an adoption are much more unpredictable the end goal is the same: bringing a child into a family.

ps. this was a post that never got posted. :) we received word in early june. still worthy of celebration!