A Blast From the Past!

This is what you do in Ukraine when you are waiting and you can't communicate very well because she speaks Russian and even though you studied Russian for 6 months before going, you can only remember Spanish! Precious Erika!!! This was 20 years ago! My how we have changed!

The Trip to Houston and... My Birthday

Erika and I had to leave on Monday  to go to Austin and Houston..... That is another post altogether.... but here are some hightlights of our trip......

I have to say, this was a WONDERFUL Birthday..... We were actually gone  from 4:15 a.m. until 10:18 p.m.  Because we had to go to Austin and then Houston and then back home.


 Austin

 Houston

 This was an interesting decore in a Mexican Restaurant in Houston.

 The Best Mexican food EVER.... I doubt we'll ever find that place again!

 This is Erika trying to look "Russian".... LOL

 That didn't last long.

 Texas.....

 We stopped at the Sam Houston Memorial Statue.

 It is HUGE!  That is Erika down at the bottom!

 Erika thought Daddy would like this quote. :)

 Sun Set in Texas

 A meal on the road....

When we got home, I was met with many birthday greetings:

I think they missed us....

 Alli Painted thsese pictures for me. :)

 Anna did this one with her sisters.

 Sarah gave me a sweet gift.....

 And made sure of how OLD I am....

 Daddy and I goofing off.

 The girlies can't believe I would hug a daddy without a shirt. :)

Sarah did this dance for my Birthday..... I just LOVE her so much! :)  If I live to be really old, I'll have a great collection of these. :)

Alli and Sarah created another dance for my birthday while Erika and I were on our trip to Houston. 
I just love and  adore each of my girls. They put so much effort into this dance and also put so much love into my birthday. :)  I so appreciate their hearts.

The girls had us get dressed up.... (Daddy had to put on a shirt) :)

They set the table

Prepared a Menu

Cooked all the delicious food

Took our pictures

And they were OH SO PROUD of themselves . :)

 Alli's cheese cake!

 Love this face of Daddy. :)  Alli made cheese cake surprise! It was surprisingly good! :)

Alli and Sarah getting prepared to dance.

WOW! What a beginning of the week!!!!  I will write more tomorrow about our Houston trip and what is required from Russia for adoptions that have been disrupted..... stay tuned!

THANK YOU GIRLS!

Sarah Dancing....

I was watching this again.  It brings tears of joy to my eyes..... :)

A Simple Summer Dance

My Silly Dancing Girls

Today is our post placement meeting for Alli. This report has to be apostilled, translated and sent to Russia.  The girls wanted to prepare something for our social worker. LOL 

Tap Dancing

Sarah watched a section on an American Girl movie special feature on how to tap dance. She recorded this video of herself to see if she was doing it right.
I thought she did pretty good for 1 day. :)