National Adoption Day

I believe yesterday was National Adoption Day!  And November is National Adoption Month.  It is humbling to know that another woman trusts us enough to raise her child.  I am so in love with this baby girl.  Several people have commented that she looks like my oldest son and "fits perfectly with our family".  It was meant to be!

She is 8 weeks old today.  Last night, she slept 5 and a half hours, woke up for a bottle then slept for another 3 hours.  Baby steps!

I am seriously sad that she is 8 weeks old already.  But I am excited to sleep through the night again- hopefully we are at that point soon!

Last night, we went to our friends' house for dinner.  There were 3 other families there.  It was a fun time.  A lot of us there had sons.  It was so sweet to see my 10 year old and his 9 year old friend sitting on the couch holding Cambria!  There were awesome with her. 

I finally took some pictures of her nursery.  I have to download them onto my computer and will post them here in my next post.   Which hopefully will be before 2013!  Ha ha!

I ordered some address labels today for our holiday cards from Family Labels.  It's the company where you can make personalized heads for every member of your family (including pets) and list everybody's name.  We're up to 8 family members now- which is the max you can do on this website!  We had Dave, me, the boys and Cambria and our 2 Golden Retrievers on the address labels.  I can't wait to get them in the mail!

Lastly, Zachary is making his confirmation at church in May.  He needs to decide on a saint name.  He is really being indecisive.  I told him to pick Saint David after his dad.  He said no, because Dave and I didn't name any of our kids after family members...on purpose.  That way nobody's feelings would be hurt.  I told him it would be cool if all the boys picked Saint David for their confirmation names!  Then he said he wouldn't pick any saint names that Jacob's friends had for names!  Sheesh!  I told him if he didn't pick a name soon, then I was going to choose a name for him.....Saint Felix!
My confirmation name is JoAnn, after Saint JoAnn.  And it was my confirmation sponsor's name too.

I don't normally talk too much about religion or politics....I prefer talking about cupcakes, shoes, and my kids' latest antics (HA!), but that's what's going on at our house now.

My college roommate's mother passed away today.  :(
I can't imagine my mother not getting to see my kids grow up and graduate from high school.  So sad.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  Gobble gobble!