It's a 5 year "Padoption" Anniversary!

Words can not describe my feelings! 6 years ago, I had given up on having kids, and thought it would NEVER happen for us! And I had decided I would be happy with what God wanted for me, even if it was not what I wanted!!! He sure was making sure I was going to accept his plan and stay true to him, that's for sure! Because it was just over a month later, out of no where, the news came! Would you like to adopt this new baby? WHAT???? Well there you have it, late Sept 2004, We found out our beautiful daughter had been born and was waiting on us!! We were blessed to get her in Oct! And just shy of 10 months later, we had the next best day of our lives! It was the day, that we went to court, and the judge signed and sealed, forever making Lil E our daughter!!! Even though, she would always have been no matter what, it sure was a GREAT feeling to know it was official!!! And that day, was today, Aug 19, 2005! So today we had another Adoption or as she said, "Padoption" Anniversary!!! It was all about her!


We played, she picked each meal out for the day. It is her special day, so she gets to pick what we eat and what we do!!!


These two pictures warm my heart! It does me so good to see how sweet and loving she is to her babies!!! She takes great care of them!!!



We made her favorite cupcakes!!! Chocolate Chip Cup Cakes! She got to pick, if we did a cake, or cupcakes, or cookies! And she wanted her most favorite cupcakes! Here is the recipe ~ CC Cupcakes.


All decorated up! She had a blast doing them!!! There is plenty to go around.




And then before dinner, we went outside to play! It has been way to hot to play outside much! But it had cooled off enough today to play out for a short time!


I had to laugh so hard watch her talking on her toy phone! Look at how grown up she is sitting, and was saying things she has heard me say like "well that's what friends do" or "I know but I need to go get dinner ready for my family" and "so what are you doing? you about home?".

For dinner we had her favorites, bacon ranch chicken, carrots, and mashed potatoes! YUMMY!!!

Then we finished off our special night looking at old pictures! It was awesome!!! I am so glad that God has blessed us with our princess! She is truly sunshine!!!

Baby Girl, Mommy and Daddy, love you!!! We are so proud to be your parents! So proud of you! And we will always love you, no matter what!!!!! Happy Padoption Anniversary sweet E!

Hugs and Blessings,