The kids when they walked in the morning of Christmas!! Yes, they are still sleeping! HAHA
Chase got an XBox live account. For those of you who don't know what that is, let's just say he's happy!!
Cameron wanted a wheelbarrow!! Well, we got him one and he loves it! Our little "Bob the builder!"
Zack FINALLY got a cell phone of his very own. It's a crazer and he couldn't belive it!!! Our teenage, don't really like the fact but hey, he's going to grow up sometime!!!
Livey's Leap Frog! She doesn't know much about it now, but in a little while she will like it I think!!

Olivia's First Christmas with us!!

We had our first Christmas with all FOUR of our kids! We have ours early, so we opened all the gifts on Friday night and our big ones on Saturday morning! It was great! Unfortunately Olivia is sick. We think she is getting Broncholitis again, or some form of that type of sickness. She is coughing REALLY bad to the point of throwing-up!!! She is running between a 100.8-102.2 fever and not sleeping well. She is on a steriod, Antibiotic and a decongestant not to mention Tylenol and Ibuprofen alternating every 4 hours! So...I hope she gets better before we travel. We might have to get a nebulizer machine to give her more breathing treatments too!! Oh well, she's here and that's all that matters. We can get her well now that she's here with us!!! We are sooo excited to finally have Christmas with her and our boys!
Olivia in front of the Christmas tree. Yes, she's starting to really walk. She stands really well and takes about 20 steps now!
When we opened her My Little Pony, the boys said, "YEAH!!" and so she started clapping too! She amuzes herself!!
Then once it was out of the box, this is the position she goes into. She sucks her fingers with a little of the hair in her mouth. This takes the place of Mama's hair!!! Yes, seems gross, but she really doesn't eat it, just likes to feel it on her lips I guess!
This shirt is from the boys! Well, they didn't know they gave it to her!! HAHAHA This is really true!
These are all her goodies besides her big gift which was a little touch Leap pad with 3 books! She has been so blessed to get so much since she's gotten here, we just got her a few things. Overall, she had a great First Christmas!!
Oh yeah, she actually opened the gifts instead of looking at it!!

Olivias goodies!

We have started this tradition that when we go to Knoxville for Christmas, we go to the Christmas store and get ornaments for everyone for that year. We let the boys pick out what they find they like and we put their name and the year on it. I want my tree, even when the kids are gone, to be full of those memories and ornaments!! Slap full of them. My in-laws have given the kids one for the year they are born also. Last year, even though Olivia wasn't here, we still got her an ornament and the Langley's got her one with the hopes that she was born in 2006, well, we really thought she'd be here!! :) Anyway, here they are.
Also, I have made a stocking for all 3 of my boys and last year I finished Olivia's in November, so this year, all four of them are up!! I LOVE THEM!! Hope you do too!

The ornament the Langley's got Olivia for her birth year. Yes, she is our princess! We love this one!

We all love the ornament we got her last year. The boys and Anthony helped me pick it out. Our first PINK ornament!! Sooo excited it's on the tree this year.

Mrs. Wanda, Aunt Wanda as we know her from a friend her at the church, gave this one to Olivia. How sweet was that??? IT is so cute, we love it!! Thanks "Aunt" Wanda~

Olivia's stocking I made her!! Isn't it cute???

All four of my children's stockings! I think they are adorable. They will be their stockings forever in my house. What a great memory keepsake huh????

Our first Christmas with our Olivia!!

I am so sorry that it has been so long since I posted, but for some reason, everytime I tried to post pictures my computer wouldn't let me. So finally, here are some recent ones!
Last year at this time was mine and Anthony's all time lows during this whole process! We thought we would have Olivia atleast by last Christmas and both of us were upset several times during the holiday. Our families still gave gifts to her and it made us think about her in a positive manner, but when all the festivities were over, we just thought about the fact that she wasn't here. Well, our God knew what HE was doing even though we didn't. Little did we know that our little angel was only a month and 5 days old at that time. There is no way that we could have the perfect little girl in our family if we had gotten OUR way with the whole thing. We always knew that God was in control, but to know that you have a child that is somewhere other than with you all the time, much less on the holidays, was one of the hardest things ever. Thank God HE showed us that He was in contol and working everything out "For the good of those who love Him!" Last year we listened to the Third Day song "Wish you a Merry Christmas" and just cried and cried because it talks about a little girl in China having Christmas without a mommy or family and how her family is here doing the holiday thing, but so wanting her with them. It says I pray God will come and hold you in His arms and tell you from my heart I wish you a Merry Christmas. It was the hardest song to listen to, but the only song I wanted to listen to because they knew exactly how we were feeling (because the guitarist of that group was waiting on his little miracle from China also!)
Well, this year, while we were decorating our tree, Anthony played that song and with my little girl in my arms, we danced around and I sang it to here, remembering how I felt last year, and cried just as hard because she IS here and I can't believe it. I looked over at Anthony and tears were streaming down his face too. Our little girl is FINALLY home with us on Christmas..it's so surreal! The end of the song says, It's Christmas time again and now your home, your family is here so you will never be alone, so tonight before you go to sleep I'll hold you in my arms and tell you from my heart, I wish you a Merry Christmas!!! OH MY GOODNESS!!! I am sitting here crying again!! We do get to hold her in our arms and all 3 of our boys and tell all FOUR of our children, I wish you a Merry Christmas.... Thank you God!! This is going to be a WONDERFUL Christmas!!!

Olivia's first picture with Santa. The only one where she isn't SCREAMING!!! I took her fingers out of her mouth, and that was all she wrote!! She wanted AWAY from that Man!!!

The picture going on our Christmas cards!! Our family of 6!

Us at Thanksgiving. Our first one with Olivia and she was only 4 days old for her first one!

There was a dedication service at the church on Nov. 18th. Doesn't she look beautiful? We vowed to bring her up in a Christian home and teach her all about Jesus!! Something she would know nothing about if she was still in China!! Praise God!

Olivia hanging the ornament we got her last year on the tree! I am so glad that she is here to put it up!!

Misc pictures

Me and my beautiful daughter!!
My four wonderful and gorgeous kids
My kids again..hey, Alana's in there, hey does this look natural??? HUMMM 2 girls!!! :)
Mrs. Shinault, our "adopted" grandmother who lives next door!! Wonderful lady!! Glad she came over!
ALL the gifts!! You better like this one because to get it I took a toy from Preston, I WAS GOING TO GIVE IT BACK, and he cried...hurt my feelings but when the person who gave it to me saw the pictures of this and their toy wasn't there..I am sorry P for taking it...I do love you!! :)

MMMMM Cake

What is all that noise?? She didn't know what was going on when we started singing and poor Eli cried we were all so loud!! :)
Okay I will try just a little!
YEP! That was good, time for both hands!!
What mommy??? Aren't I beautiful even with icing all over my face???
She was laughing at Lana and Rachel!! SOO funny!! I think the sugar had finally hit her because she didn't smile good at me until now!

Presents!!!

Okay, she was more interested in the bags, but I really appreciated them. She will too when the bags are gone!! She got great toys and a night outfit and a sweatsuit/jumpsuit type cute outfit!! YEAH! Thanks to everyone!


See what I mean about the bag???
Oh, this one's kinda cool!
MONEY!!! Yeah...mom can buy me a pair of shoes with this!!

More birthday pictures

Yes she's leaning on the door, but she is standing for a long time by herself...she'll be walking soon!
The toy we gave her to help her to walk...she loved it!
LOOK A BOW!! It didn't last long, but it was there for a little while!
See her cute bib???
The Langley 6!!!

OLIVIA TURNS ONE!!!

Our little girl will be ONE on Tuesday!! We can't belive that we have been home only 3 months with her but much less that she's already one..I want those 9 months of her life back!! :) We are really glad that we do get to spend her first birthday with her because some parents don't have that privilege. She had a wonderful time with friends. We had alot of kids and their parents here today! It was really a good day. She loved her cake and you can see how much in the later pictures. I can't believe I got to decorate for a GIRLS birthday and it wasn't all girly, but ladybug seemed to be perfect, coming from China like she is, for her first birthday so black and red it was!! Thank you God for this time we've had with Olivia, she's more of a blessing than we ever imagined!! HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY OLIVIA!! WE ALL 5 LOVE YOU!!
The ladybug cake I made...it wasn't perfect, but it was cute
Olivia's own birthday cake...mmmmm
How the table looked!
Our sweet little girl!! Look at those cheeks!!
This is where she opened her presents!! She's so big!

My basketball Man

Chase has talked about being on the basketball team at school for about 2 years now and this year he was finally able to try-out! There were alot of kids that tried out and he was one of the 16 that made it! He is the only other shoot guard they have and he's doing so good! We are so proud of him and know that he's just going to get better. He has a great coach and his teammates and him are really cool with eachother. He's not hard to spot (HAHAHA) but just in case, he's number 10! They won their first game last Thursday and he was so excited...it was the game he started in!! (WE had to tell him to let his head un-swell!! HAHAHA) We are glad he's having a good time! Maybe this will be the beginning of a scholarship in Basketball!! YEAH!
He's so cute

He got to start on this game
He's doing a great job
LOOK!! He's got his hands on the ball!!
Awww, our two youngest kids!!