A Day at the Beach!

Look Mom a whole clam. Can I open it?

Jacob and DJ chasing waves, their favorite thing!

Emily and Ellie having fun! This dog LOVES the waves.

Beach Babes! Aren't they cute?

Row Row Row your boat!

Aunt Carrie is fishing for the BIG one!

Our day camp at the beach

The kids playing in the sand!

Boomers

The Dunes

We spent a lot of time at the dunes. The dogs loved it. The kids would run up and down the dunes with the dogs. Chelsea in the pictures is my cousin Marcus's daughter. She is quite a kid!!

Chelsea those are some big shoes you must fill!
Fun with the dogs at the dunes.
The DUNES!!
Emily and Chelsea at the dunes

June is out of Review

Yeah!!! June is out of review. This means the dossiers with June log in dates are out of the review room in China. We only have 3 months of dossiers until our dossier is reviewed and hopefully out of the review room. We still have quite a while until we are matched.

I am still here

Hello everyone! We are back from Pismo Beach and I have a lot of cool pictures to post. I will try to get to it tonight. Hope everyone had a great week.

Visitors

On Monday morning when David was going out the front door to work, he was greeted by a couple of visitors. TWO German Shepard puppies! Yes we still have them. They are sweet dogs, but we need another dog like we need another hole in our head. We ran a found add. No one has responded to it. Of course they don't have tags. Anybody want a couple of puppies, they are about 9 to 11 months old. They are both girls.

Fingerprints

One step closer to our little one. We sent off our yearly fingerprint clearance for our adoption.

Emily's Trip Slide Show

Comments

Hey everyone!
Jacob got it fixed so you could leave a comment if you wanted too. We would love to hear from you.

Emily Is Home

David and his kids. He is very happy that we are back a family of four.

Daddy's hugs are the best thing!

These two were really happy to see each other!

I have my girl back! Can't really tell it in this picture, but she is as tall as me!

Finally sleeping on the way home!

Good evening everyone! Emily is home! She is taller, thinner and more grown up. She looks great. Emily had a great time on your trip. She is REALLY tired. When we picked her up at LAX she looked at David and said she wanted a steak for dinner. NO fish, chicken or potatoes please. She has lots of stories to share, but she was too tired. Thanks again to everyone who helped her raise the money for the trip.

Phone Call

Emily called me when she landed in Chicago. She is almost back home! David, Jacob and I will be leaving in a little while to go get her. She sounded pretty happy. Hopefully she got to sleep some on the plane. I will post more later. Have a great day!

Home sweet Home

Emily is on her way home today. We are very happy. We have missed her a bunch. I talked to her yesterday she is very home sick. When I was talking with her she said "Mom can I please stop to get something to eat that is not fish, chicken or potatoes." She also said that she is very tired. We are going down today to pick her up. I am sure she has some stories to share with you all. Hope you have a great day.

Clare, Ireland

Adare

Killarney Ireland lakes

Killarney Ireland

Burren Ireland

Ailwee Caves

Cliffs of Moher

Galway Bay

Aran Islands

Bunratty Castle

Emily is in Clare, Ireland. She will be in Clare for the next two days. Today she started her day on a horse-drawn jaunty through the countryside surrounding the lakes of Killarney. She will be visiting the carved glaciers. She will be visiting the Village of Adare on her way to Burren.
Tomorrow she will be exploring the County of Clare. She will be visiting the Cliffs of Moher, the limestone caves of Ailwee, Galway Bay, Aran Islands and spending the afternoon at Bunratty Castle.

David, Jacob and I drove over to Pismo Beach for the night. We took our trailer over there for some friends to use for the week. David had a business meeting for California Monument Association. Jake and I had time to ourselves for a few hours. We watched movies and hung out. It was nice to have one on one time with him. I don't get that very often. We are REALLY missing Emily. We only have 3 days and she will be home. Hope you had a great weekend.

Cork, Ireland

Sunfort Farms

Blarney Castle

Waterford Crystal Factory

Crystal factory

Waterford Ireland

Curracloe Beach

Hello Everyone!
Emily is in Cork, Ireland today and tomorrow. Emily will be visiting the Curracloe beaches, this is where they filmed Saving Private Ryan. She will be going to Waterford Crystal Factory. Emily will be going to Blarney Castle and yes she will be kissing the Blarney stone. After Blarney Castle they will be walking to The Woollen Mill.
Day 2 in Cork
They will be enjoying rural Ireland. They will be visiting Sunfort Farms. This is a working dairy farm.

Bray, Ireland

Emily is on her way to Bray, Ireland. She told us yesterday that she will be doing water sports today. She said that Ireland is beautiful.

Emily's Last Day in Dublin

Gaelic Athletic Association Museum

Grand Canal Basin

Army Duck

O' Connell Street

Trinity College

St. Patrick Cathedral

Georgian Building

We talked to Emily today. She is having a great time. She did say that she is getting a little homesick. Emily only has 5 more days of her trip. These are some of the things she did today. They had a tour of Dublin. She saw the Georgian Buildings, St. Patrick Cathedral, Phoenix Park, Trinity College and the statue-lined O'Connell Street. After the tour the went on a ride over the land and water in a World War II amphibious military vehicle called an "Army Duck" Emily said that it was a blast! To finish their day with a splash in the historic Grand Canal Basin. Their last stop of the day was to the Gaelic Athletic Association Museum.