Great Life

Carmen now rides her bike by herself, and isa...well she still needs help.

Peyton is learning to eat, she loves food!!!

I think this has to be my favorite picture of her

So I think life is pretty great, I have three beautiful girls, and a wonderful husband who works very hard to take care of all of us. He is going to be starting nights this week so it will be interesting to see how everything goes. I'm glad it is only going to be for 3 months. I just got a call that I will be able to interview with different school districts for my masters program, so I am pretty excited about that. I will interview and then know by the end of April if i got in....hopefully the second time around works. Carmen is now three and so smart. She knows her ABC's and can count to 13 with out messing up, and very bossy, but I guess we better get used to that with three girls in the house. Isa is starting to talk and we are starting potty training with her. I think we have decided that we will have one more biological child, and may do more foster care in the future, that has yet to be decided for sure though. Here are a few update photos for y'all....enjoy!

Great News

Peyton in her new sunglasses

Amanda and Charlie

Peyton loves to eat her feet

A fun time at the park

All the girls with Aunt Amanda

Mommy and Peyton

Amanda and girls

I don't remember what we had for dinner that night but she sure liked it.

Mommy and Peyton at the mall killing time

So we had our court date and the parental rights for the girls were terminated. So what this means is that right now the state of Texas has legal rights over the girls until all the allotted times have passes for parents and family to appeal or intervene. At that time the will be placed for adoption and everything should go to the adoption courts and we will then be able to adopt them. The trial was exhausting but good, it took the jury less than 30 minutes to decide to terminate the rights. Its amazing some of the things that came out during the trial that happened to the older children. All six of the kids are in a much better place now and that's all that matters.

Peyton is 5 months old today and its so amazing to see the difference in where she is now compared to where Isa was at this age. We know what a loving home does for a child. Aunt Amanda came down from Oregon for the trial and stayed for three weeks. It was wonderful having her here and I know the girls love it when she comes to visit. Here are some updated photos of everyone.