Adoption Day 2009

Six years ago today Gabby's adoption was finalized! The time has gone very quickly!

With everything that has been going on we kept the celebration kind of low key this year and just went out to Red Robin for lunch but we enjoyed our time together.

The other thing that we are celebrating is that Gabby's diploma arrived today! Yeah!

Job search...Foot Infection...And brain surgery...OH MY!

It has been a very LONG time since I have posted... Life has been interesting around here for the last month and a half to say the least.

Scott is still in the process of looking for a job...

On July 4th Gabby injured her foot by hitting it on a dock post while swimming. It got infected which caused a lot of "excitement" because Teresa went into the hospital on the 5th of July and had brain surgery to have an abscess removed on July 6th.

This of course left Scott to take care of two pretty much incapacitated people. This also included giving Teresa intravenous antibiotics for the first month that she was home.

Thankfully our church family and our families helped out bringing meals and Teresa's mom came over and helped with house work and running errands.

Gabby's foot healed very well and she is up and about on it with out any problems.

Teresa had one set back on August 6th she went back into the hospital because she was running a fever again but it turned out to be "drug fever" which is when the body has an allergic reaction to the medication. So after running multiple tests they determined that she could go home and then that fevers were caused by the meds so they changed them.

Things seem to be going well again. We will keep you posted.

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for us!

Gabby's foot the night she went into Emergency.

Teresa's scar a week after sutures were removed.

Getting our house in order...

In the last week we have:

Picked out paint for our accent walls in the living/dining room, master bedroom and master bathroom

Painted the living/dining room accent walls

Had Teresa's mom over who sewed all of the valances for the kitchen and nook area and Gabby's bathroom

Started painting in the bedroom (which of course includes moving a lot of stuff and the furniture, vacuuming and shampooing the carpets and painting the ceiling as well as the walls)
So here are a few pictures of the results:

This is the living room/dining room

Cutting the fabric for the kitchen valences

The valence in Gabby's bathroom

Our room before painting

A sneak peek of the the new color (I'll post more pics once it is all done)

Gabby's Recital and Graduation

Saturday was a big day around here!

In the early afternoon Gabby had her End of Year Recital and Award Ceremony.

She played very well and received several awards!

Then we had her graduation that evening. She did it! Yay!!