So, here are the pictures from the events I started listing off in the last blog... I can't figure out how to put more than eight or so pics in a blog, so I'll break them up.

We went to a 4th of July fireworks display in Clovis... it was a lot of fun!


The next week we went camping in Morgan Hill, with daytrips to Monterey and Santa Cruz

Well, June and July were crazy fun summer months!! We went to a Fresno Grizzly's game (AAA club for the Giants), went camping, visited family in SoCal, and tried to do some relaxing at home.

Here are the kids dancing!

Here are just some fun pictures from the house:





My Cute Cheeseheads!!!! They love playing dress up!!

Memorial Day weekend, we went to my (Matt) folk's house in Auburn and celebrated all of the grandkids birthdays. Nate and Melissa's two share a birthday on the 31st of May (one year apart) and with our kids being twins, my parents have four grandkids with only two birthdays! Here are some pictures of the party and kids...




As you can see by the pictures, we had two parties in one. Princesses for the girls and Superman for the boys. They all got dressed up (if you can call Superman pajamas dressing up) for the party and we had a slip'n'slide afterward.


I love the picture of all four of them waiting to use the slip'n'slide. They are so cute!!


My parents also got bikes for the kids... We opted to leave those at home and let them have them after the party.

Here are some pictures of the kids from the last few months... I'll start with the older ones and post the newer ones in groups.

The first one is the two of them with Emily and Claire (Kim's brother Jeff's daughters) at the Easter Egg Hunt.

We had fun dyeing Easter eggs with them. They had never done this before, so it was a lot of laughing and amazement!!

Well, we've done it... We now have our own blog! Our family has doubled this year with the edition of seven-year old twins!! We are very excited to see what God has planned for our little family. For those of you who might not know the story, let me fill you in...

Kim and I decided to head down the road to adoption about a year and a half ago. We started the lengthy process that CA requires for adoption (classes, fingerprints, background checks, home studies). As we were beginning, our dishwasher leaked which ruined the flooring in the kitchen, dining area, and entry way. So, being as we were getting new floors, we decided to get new kitchen cabinets first... :-) Oh my! Well, we finally finished (enough for the state of CA any way) and were cleared to have kids in our house. This all culminated at the beginning of April, the end of tax season for me. We were thinking we would have some time to finish up a few little things before being introduced to prospective kids, but God's timing is very different from ours... We ended up meeting the kids on the 8th of April and bringing them into our home on the 14th!

Their names are Selina and Mateo... (You may notice his nametag says "Diego", we have since changed his name.) This is a picture of them at the Easter Egg Hunt at our church the day before Easter.

We have had a blast with them the last four months!! As time allows, I hope to have pictures from the last few months up, so you can see just how cute they are!!

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