Christmas

Christmas was absolutely magical this year. We had so much fun with Jocelyn and she was so excited about every aspect of the season. Christmas is my favorite time of the year, I love all the togetherness, the family gatherings, the decorations and lights - I wish the spirit of Christmas was truly with us all year long and I have promised myself to try to keep the spirit going as much as possible.

Some December highlights: (my apologies I can not figure out how to format all this stuff!)

* My grandparents came to visit for a week and it was wonderful to have four generations together

* Sledding!

* Jocelyn loved the Zhu Zhu pet she got

* *Jocelyn's school program

* She loves to dress up like a princess :)

* In front of Aunt Heidi's tree

* Gingerbread train

*Jocelyn singing in the Christmas Pageant at church

* Festival of Trees

* Zoolights
* having Jocelyn pick out gifts for the Angel Tree

* The end of my first trimester!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Katriel

Katriel was finally able to go live with his Dad on November 30. We felt so bad for his Father who had been trying to get custody of Katriel since his Mother died. Because they were not married they had to establish paternity etc., the court dates kept getting continued and the state seemed to be taking its sweet time accomplishing what needed to be done. It was nice to see a happy ending that we actually agreed with.

Since we are expecting our second baby in June of 2011 (woohoo!) we will most likely not have any more babies come stay with us. The state requires us to have another bedroom if we have 3 kids in our home so until we are able to finish our basement our adventures in fostering will have to be put on hold.