Big Spring of Firsts!!!

First Easter Egg coloring!!!!

Best Day!!! First Easter together!!!!!!

First fish!!!!!!!!!

First fish!!!!!!

First Easter Egg Hunt! More like a race!

March 28, 2010 Dawit's Birthday!!!!

March 11, 2010. Muluken's Birthday

I am still soooo not good at knowing how to put the blog together, but at least there are pictures and a short story!!!

As you can tell by the pics, we have had a busy spring of fun, fun, fun!! Both boys celebrated birthdays in March complete with cake and skating parties. The rink loved us in March!! Then on the weekend of Easter, we had egg coloring, egg hunting, fishing and our first Easter at church. It has been so much for our whole family to celebrate all of these things together.
It is crazy to think that we have had the boys for 9 months and counting. I am still perfecting the hair cuts and maneuvering the accents at times!!

All the kids have really gotten in to playing cards and games lately. GO FISH is the game of choice right now. Last night, Muluken, Dawit, and Dad were playing. It was comical. Each time Muluken would pick up a card he would lick his lips and act as if it was the card he had been waiting for. Then Dad would ask for that very card!!! He would turn his face inside out and act like he was boohooing and say with his thick Ethiopian accent, "That is what I was about to ask you for?" (BOO HOO BOO HOO) What an actor!! Dawit would grin from ear to ear and laugh as would all of us in the room. Then there would be a dang it! (with emphasis on the g) All the kids have been playing and Hannah got a lesson in Rummy! These are the really fun times!

The boys did play Upward basketball and now they are in soccer. Josh played winter basketball and then trained for a 4 mile run! Hannah played some Upward and volleyball. Loran played Upward. Now the kids are ending with swimming lessons and looking forward to baseball and softball this summer. All the boys got on the same team!!! Yea for mom and dad!!! Jessica has been in gymnastics. It is unbelievable how much better Dawit and Muluken have become in swimming lessons. Dawit was like a rock the first week, now he can actually swim!!!! Muluken could swim ok to begin with and now is just better!!

I love my kids! They are fun to watch and see them grow and their personalities expand. It is fun to explain even elemetary things to them. What has been most fun is Bible stories. We have gone through some of them and it's fun to see what they understand and what they question. Keep us in prayer as we deal with some medical issues in the coming months with Luke. He is doing great, but bloodwork keeps coming back crazy which may force us to do some intervention. It makes me even more thankful that he is here with the family that God chose for him in a country that could make the ultimate difference in the outcome of his life!! Isn't God Awesome!!!

Love all!!!

Steph