3 months today

Day 3 was full of shopping, playing at the park and the adventure park, and walking around the farmer's market. It was a great day! 

Our Little Lady has been with us for three months today, or 91 days. It has been quite a roller coaster, but I'm grateful that we've spent a quarter of a year with our part pterodactyl-part monkey. Love her! 

LL's quotes:

- C: "What do you wanna be when you grow up?" LL: "I wanna nurse babies." C: "Umm I think you mean you want to be a baby nurse." 

- (Whispering in my ear) "I wake up in the middle of the night and eat candy and vanilla wafers." (I'm 95% sure she's joking.) :/

Helping my father-in-law, Matt, get out of the low chair. 

C asked her what her favorite thing has been about our trip and she said it was playing at this park. Great. Wish I would've known. Could've saved about a grand. :)

She had so much fun playing with "Mr. Matt!"

We went shopping with Jan, C, and my Beanie Baby after playing at the park. LL found this chipmunk and yelled, "Look! I found a life-size Chubs!"

Cutest thing ever!

Uh oh! She looooves shopping!

Walking around at the farmers market. 

Just us. 

After lunch, LL and I spent some time at Ride-a-Kart. We had a BLAST!! We started here - the "extreme trampoline." This is her semi-nervous face! 

Getting ready to jump.

And she's off!

Our second stop was at the bumper boats. We must have been here at the perfect time because we had the whole pool to ourselves. It was so much fun! After the bumper boats, we did bumper cars and we had that whole rink to ourselves, too!! We each started on one end of the rink and then just crashed in the middle! We ended the day on the Go Karts. I'm so thankful that I was able to spend this time with her. Just the two of us!

On our way home, she asked if we could stop and take a picture with the bear statue. She decided she wanted a picture with every bear!

:)

She bought this horse with the money she earned doing chores before we left. She named her Mae because Jan's horse was named Mae when she was a little girl.

My sweet Beanie Baby! Almost 8 months old!

If you didn't notice, Bry wasn't in any of pictures today. Brian and Josh were hiking 11.5 miles in the Rockies. This is the picture he texted me. Simply breathtaking.

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About Us: 

We began our foster journey in mid-August 2013. We finished our classes in October, had our home study in early January, and we were licensed on February 7, 2014. After seven calls from CPS, we received our first placement, a 7-year-old girl (our Little Lady, or LL for short) on April 3, 2014. Thank you so much for taking the time to read about our journey through the craziness that is foster care. Most importantly, thanks for your prayers, love, and support. We hope to encourage fellow foster/adoptive parents as we document our ups and downs each day. 

Key Posts:

We are Facebook-Official!

Saying goodbye to someone I've never met

Will you get a white one?

Yup, it's gonna hurt.

Day 1 with our Little Lady

Oasis