We are DTC!

Today we are Dossier to China--meaning our adoption paperwork is flying to China right now! It is done! We are SO THANKFUL to the Lord and to all who held us up and walked us through the first part of the adoption process!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are one giant step closer to Matthew!

And, of course, we celebrated tonight with Chinese food, eaten with chopsticks. The meal tasted even better than I remembered, since Derek ordered the food as I was beginning to cook our dinner. No cooking. No pots and pans. Aww! What a celebration!

Summer 2017e

This summer, Derek's parents celebrated 50 years of marriage.

Though I do not yet have pictures from their amazing celebration,

I do have the following pictures from our time together

following the celebration.

We got to spend the week with this awesome family 😍:

Thanks for the together time, Pappy and Nanny!!

Summer 2017d

Power Up Clubs memories:

Summer 2017c

Daniel--after his almost week-long fever:

 Washing dishes (and drying them in the tree):

 Of all the seats in the living room,

they chose to sit close together:

 Pappy's gift: baseball tickets

 Andrew, the cool dude at the baseball game:

Cherish with some new friends at VBS:

Daniel loving his first VBS experience:

 Andrew at his Saturday morning classes:

Summer 2017b

Superheroes live at our house.

Here's proof:

And, of course, we have "Sir Bucket Head" 😍.