Time Flys When You Are Having Fun Part Two

The day after our Moscow reunion we headed towards Texas to spend some time with Wyatt while his folks were away on business.

Like all good grandparents we dropped mom and dad off at the airport and headed straight to Chuck E Cheese.

Saturday morning we set off for the Children's Museum in San Antonino where Wyatt seemed to believe he was about four years old!

Sunday morning was a shopping trip to the outlet stores, and in the afternoon we headed towards Round Rock, Texas to meet Susan and Artem for dinner. Let's just say that I hope Wyatt grows up and has Artem's manners!

Such sweet boys!
Monday we set off for Sea World and had a blast! They had the neatest sprinkler area and of course I had to follow Wyatt in.

There was really no need as the little guy never turned around once to see if I was near by. Ron had duty on the playground and once again our little man was off and running. It was a great day!

Tuesday afternoon we went to the local pool where we quickly discovered Wyatt had no fear of the water. The pool is not a "do-over" for us!

Wednesday we stayed in the area and just enjoyed watching Wyatt explore. Lots of play time, trips to Burger King/McDonalds, shopping and enjoying seeing life through the eyes of an eighteen month old toddler that kept us on our toes. Sweet memories that we recalled on the 840 mile car trip home!

If you could not tell, Ron and I are totally Gobsmacked over our little guy and really enjoyed our time in Texas!

A quick stop at home to cut the grass and attend a wedding and we were off again to move Ashley from Nashville to Kingsport Tennessee. Wonder when Ron ever had time to work!!!

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun Part One!

In the cold, rainy days of winter Ron and I had an idea to host a mini Moscow Adoptive Family Reunion here at our home in Alabama. After all we were kinda centrally located between several families and there is nothing we enjoy more then hosting events here at our home. So, during the first weekend of June we hosted what I hope will become an annual event, and that it will grow to include more of the wonderful families we met while in Moscow. These are the true faces of Russian adoption and it was a pleasure to have these families in our home.



You would be hard pressed to find four little boys that could be any sweeter then these little guys.




They all got along so well and we were hopelessly in love with all of them before the weekend ended.


The first weekend in June worked well this year so pencil it in for 2011 for the second annual Moscow Adoptive Family Reunion "Do-Over!" Hopefully, the fish will be biting again!



Thanks Susan for the wonderful pictures!

LIVING THE RETIRED LIFE IN ALABAMA

Ron has nicknamed me the "Social Butterfly" as I really enjoy hosting events here at our home. In April, we had around 25 people in for a Easter Meal

and we got to show off the grandbaby.



Andy and Kasey were really good sports about the doting grandparents, and took pictures of this old gal doing the bunny hop with Wyatt on Easter morning


May was here before we could blink our eyes and we hosted 20+plus classmates from Ron's graduating class. We even convinced a few couples to bare their family secrets in a home style version of the Newlywed Game!



June has arrived, and today our niece chose Nasha Dacha for her Bridal shoot. Isn't she beautiful!



This weekend we are so excited to host a mini reunion. Our guests have all been here and none of them work for BP!


Can you tell we are enjoying retirement?!?