a little bit.

back to the pumpkin patch we went!

her kindergarten class went and she had a great time riding the school bus for the very first time!! 

and being there with her friends made things extra cool, of course. 

she had to see the kittens again!

although this time, those poor kittens were being manhandled left and right and didn't want to sit still on very many laps. 

rowan of course had to try though! :) 

our anniversary dinner date on the water. 

Fog

last month, in november, we had some really heavy fog that was lingering around for a few days. 

so i thought i would take advantage and bring rowan down to the sunnyside beach in steilacoom.

you couldn't even see anderson island or the ferry!

D. O. G. S.

rascal and skeeter love to snuggle. 

ha - rascal's tongue actually sticks out like that most of the time. i think it's too big for his tiny mouth.

sometimes these dogs can be so sweet.. 

other times not.

taken through the window with my iphone camera. 

what is wrong with this crazy rabid dog? 

doesn't he know how to use a napkin? 

Pumpkin patch

we did our annual trip to the pumpkin patch in mid-october! 

we had such a great time! 

we usually like to head south to portland and meet up with family there, but this year it didn't work out.

so we found a great local farm, Schilter Farms, where they had this crazy big corn maze. 

we were in it for an hour and never found our way to the end. 

we ended up heading back to the entrance and leaving that way!

this girl is obsessed with kittens. 

all this girl would need for Christmas would be a cat and she would be the happiest girl alive!

in the eyes of a child. 

 she captured this great photo too!

she couldn't help herself. she just had to take a selfie.

this was the aftermath of being physically stuck in the mud. 

Foster license

10.24.13

we got our

 foster license today! 

Our first referral

October 17th. 

the moment we got our first referral... 

wow! what an exhilarating feeling!!

bubba was in the other room and had said: did you see we got a referral? 

i of course did not believe him. he's always telling stories or saying something just to get a rise out of me. 

so i of course say: no we didn't. {right, because i always know these things before he does}

him: yeah. we did. 

so i ran to my phone where i could instantly check my email and there it was!! 

all 30 pages of that referral. 

oh man... and let me tell you. i was SO thrilled and elated that we had finally gotten our first referral! (after waiting over 2 weeks since our completed homestudy) 

so after reading through some, and skimming most, everything looked good. there were some issues, but nothing that we couldn't handle. there was just one problem.... 

they were TWINS!!! 

while everything else looked really good, we talked about it some and just decided that we couldn't do twins. 

but boy were we so happy to have that first referral under our belt. we now know what to expect with future referrals!

Soccer season is over.

Well I sure do have a lot of updating to do! Thankfully, life has been busy and fulfilling and I haven't made much time for blogging these past 2 months. 

Now, I'm on a break from school and enjoying the holidays. 

These events and pictures are now "old", but I still want to document them on here and remember these memories for later. 

So here we go!

rowan's last soccer! she's always posing. silly girl. 

Coach Sammy!

her best friend at their pizza party! 

she was so excited to get her trophy and medal!