Annual Egg Hunt - Owen Farm

Today was such a beautiful day for a day on the farm. We went over to Josh's teacher's family farm for their second annual egg hunt. It was so fun to see the difference in Ellie from last year to this year. While she was very interested in the animals, if we got too close or asked if she wanted to pet them, she vehemently shook her head and said, "NO! NO! NO!".













I thought it was really sweet that this little girl came over to show her her chicken.


Here's Josh and his chicken. He couldn't figure how they colored the chickens. [Umm... food coloring??]





Josh also loved this rubber duck race.





We went on a long hayride and she did really well.



She was very interested, however, in the Easter Bunny. At one point, when he was sitting in the grass, she sat down beside him and kept inching over closer and closer until I had to move her so others could take photos.









Josh collected quite a few eggs for Ellie, which is good because there were so many people that Ellie was just overwhelmed and she and I only managed to scoop up three eggs. She was happy with them, until she realized there was no candy in them. The set-up was that you traded in your eggs for candy -- pretty neat idea, huh?







There were bouncy/slides at this event and Ellie managed to talk Josh into taking her. The girl LOVES these!



I love this picture of Kevin!



Ellie carried her candy tightly, eating as much as she could open, on the way to the car where she promptly passed out for a quick nap on the way to the nursing home to see grandmother.









We have had a really nice day today in the warm weather. I can't wait to celebrate Easter tomorrow!

This was my absolute favorite photo of the day. There's just something sweet about it.

Josh's "New" Room

As promised, photos of Josh's new room. Today we got it finished cleaning, hung up the pictures on the walls and most importantly hung his FATHEAD!! Josh's team mom got all the boys Fatheads of themselves as their year-end gift and we decided to wait until we did the "remodel" on the room before we hung it up.

As you remember, we started this project during spring break. You remember the disaster it was then ...


Now, however, it looks fantastic!! For today. If you have kids, you understandt that. It will be a dump again by tomorrow, I'm sure. *sigh* At least I can look at the pictures and remember when it was semi-clean.







And after it was all clean and ready to live in, this is where I found him.



He wants to be in her room and she wants to be in his. There is no pleasing children, is there?

Thank you God for my children and their [clean for one day] rooms.

FCA Easter Egg Hunt

Last Saturday we got together with other families who have adopted children from Asia who live in the Middle Tennessee area. There were crafts, a potluck lunch (yummy!!), an Easter egg hunt and fun playing on the playground.

We are so blessed to live in an area where there are others from Kyrgyzstan, but also so many from other Asian countries. We had SUCH a good time and can't wait until the next event.

One of the crafts was a cool paper egg/lantern that the kids could color. Even Josh got in on this!




I love this picture of Josh. He has such a pretty smile!



The food selection was incredible! Doesn't Kevin look like he just got caught doing something wrong? *smile*



Ellie LOVED all the ride on toys.



AND the cupcakes.



Even the adults got into the act of playing put the egg in the basket!



Ellie wouldn't wear the blindfold, but still wanted to play. She was the youngest one there by about six months.



What she REALLY wanted to do though was go outside and play on the playground. Here she is being "Bucket Girl".





She picked up several eggs, but quickly bored of that and wanted to play on the toys.









Josh helped a little. *smile*



Until Ellie bored of him and then he began to help Jia.





Here's "the till".


Ellie was happy to find it held "Cangi".


Ellie loved playing in the sand -- she's such a "get dirty" kind of girl.



It was her first time in a sandbox.




I LOVE this picture of Ellie. She is so happy!