Thank You Secret Pal!!

Thank you again to our great secret pal! We love the travel items and the bonus picture frame. The frame is really super cute with all of the little critters and flowers on it. We will hang the neon luggage tags right on our luggage and it should be very easy to spot ours with those bright tags. Those nalgene bottles will get a ton of use. We love to camp and use those kinds of bottles a lot. I also do a lot of sewing but do not have a travel sewing kit. That too will come in awfully handy.
I am sad that this secret pal exchange will be coming to an end soon. We look forward to your great gifts every month. But we are also looking forward to our girly too. We can't wait to find out who you are. Maybe we'll end up being travel buds!
Thanks again!!

Hannastock X

It was the tenth annual Kroeger farm party this weekend. We had a great time, especially on Friday night. As expected and without fail, the rains came and drowned us on Saturday. It was fast but furious, and just in time to move the festivities to Bobette's house. We missed Mike Morningstar playing some good 'ol music on his fantastic hickory stick but were glad to just hang out up on the mountain. Mike was entertaining to all of the kiddos on Friday night when he broke out the WV fireworks. They are all just big sparkelers. In WV, fireworks aren't allowed to shoot into the air.

Another Tuesday Morning Outfit

I haven't bought anything for the baby girl for a long time. I've been thinking maybe this has all been a bad dream so I kind of put my "shopping for my daughter" obsession on hold. I'm creeping back into the excitement again, slowly but I am feeling a little twinge of a flutter in my heart again from time to time instead of just the dull ache of not having her here with us. I was at Tuesday Morning yesterday and there, alone again, was this super cute outfit. If you remember, I found this one way back when at the same place and had to buy it so there was really no need to leave this one hanging. Now it's hanging in our girly's closet. Too cute!
 

And Gymboree too!

I also had a gymboree coupon. How could I resist? You know, if you don't use those coupons, they take you off of their mailing list. I have to get the coupons!! So I bought these cuties from the summer clearance for a song. Hopefully they will fit miss girl next summer. I was imagining her little brown self in this dress at the beach next summer. I really wish they had the shirt in my size :)

Happy Birthday Larry!!

Hope you are having a great day today. We wish you a wonderful birthday!! We love you, hope to see you soon.
 

Happy Birthday Maggie!

Larry shares his birthday with our mean ass cat. She is 12 years old today. I couldn't get her to wear a silly hat. But I sure would've if I could've. Happy birthday 'ol girl.
 

It's Official

CCAA has updated their site to officially state that referrals are through July 13, 2005. CCAI has not updated their site to let us know how many kiddos. I guess I'll excuse them as they're probably pretty busy with the referrals:) One family who received their referral says that there were 22 CCAI families that recieved their referrals. Don't know if that includes any twins. If not that would be 22 kids for 22 CCAI families. Congrats to everyone who has now seen their childrens faces!! We are getting closer...very slowly, but we are getting closer.
I had dinner tonight with some friends from work. I have been putting them off and putting them off about a shower. Tonight, we decided that we would plan the baby's shower when we work on our next schedule. That will be a little later this month. I can't believe that we will get to have a baby shower for our baby. They have always been for someone elses baby. It has been so long since I have thought about this as being real. Is it real? Will we really be parents?