Getting ready

Hey!

I'm taking a break from packing and washing clothes to post.

We're leaving for Las Vegas at 6:00 in the morning tomorrow.

Well, that's the goal anyway. :)

My grandma is having a hip replacement and we're going to visit her in the hospital.

As you can probably tell that whole getting on a new posting schedule thing I talked about in my last post, hasn't exactly happened yet. I guess like Zoe said I'm feeling a little uninspired too.

It's finally starting cooling down more at nights where I live. It's usually 15 to 20 degrees cooler at night, but when it's 100-110 out during the day, that's not much. I actually have been felling cold the last few nights! Of course some of it could have been from the bout of tonsillitis I've had the last few days. One of the symptoms is periodic fever. Which I had. Along with headaches and earaches. Yes, poor poor me. :)

Anyway, we'll probably be back by Tuesday. So hopefully I'll be back posting by Wednesday or Thursday. My brother has a laptop that he brings with him, but, no internet. :(

Well, the dryer is going to beep any minute so I should go.

Thank you to all of you who read my sporadic posts. :)

~Brianna

VBS pictures

Whew! Busy week! I haven't had time to post at all!

VBS went really well. We had the biggest group out of all the classes. Brooke, my mom, and I did 3-4 grade. It was really fun!

The music went well. I don't know if I mentioned this already but they had the youth worship team do all the songs, so I played the piano. That was fun too. :)

Anyway, I thought I'd put some pictures up. We didn't get to take as many as we wanted but we did get some good ones.

These are of Brandon in the play.

And at the bottom is D, who we got this week, sleeping.

Ok, my mom said that we can finally post her name!

D stands for.......Daisy!!!!! Her name actually suits her really well! We can't put up full pictures yet though. :(



The characters names are(left to right), Millie, Mikey(by the way the kid that plays him doesn't look like that, he's wearing a clown suit!), Dr.Jones, Zoe Clark, Ellie Chase, and Captain Taylor played by Brandon(kneeling down).









Them goofing off!














This was the set.













Brandon's the one on the chair. The picture's kinda dark.













This was today. They wrapped up the story at the beginning of the service.












Daisy sleeping.














Daisy still sleeping. Hey, 2 year olds need their rest! :)










Wow, it's so much easier to type Daisy then D!

I should go. Now, hopefully I can get back on a good posting schedule!

~Brianna

Amazon Expedition

Wow, yeah, I'm tired.

The first day of VBS went really well yesterday.
I was kinda surprised how many kids were there for the first day. That means of course there will be more kids today. It's pretty cool, for the kids that bring friends, they put there names in a bucket then draw them out to win free passes to a water park that's out here. I'd want to bring friends for that! :)

The drama thing that they have where they do a little bit each day to get the kids to come back to find out what happened went well too. Brandon was really funny in it.

The story is about a pilot(Brandon), a creationist paleontologist, a reporter, a flight attendant, and a brother and sister who's plane crash lands in the amazon jungle and then they have to find a way to be rescued. Of course there's this big plot and everyone finds out that the crash wasn't necessarily an accident, etc..etc..etc.. It's really cute actually. We're going to take pictures today and then I'll post them.

Anyway, I'm thinking of donating my hair like Brooke. I play sports so my hair has to fit in a ponytail. I might have to wait a while. My hair's pretty long though. It's really curly so it's even longer. I'll have to straighten it and see. Brooke is so much cooler in the heat with her hair shorter. That's one of the reasons why I want to do it. Now my hair feels like I have a blanket around my shoulders and neck. Just what you want in 100 degree weather. :)

I gotta go, busy day.

~Brianna

Not the right time

Hey! I haven't been able to post the last few days.

I decided to finally tackle organizing me and Brooke's room. It's a slow but steady progress. :)

As you probably read on Brooke's blog, we're not getting the boys. It's not the right time for our family right now with us possibly having to move because of slow work in our area and it probably would not have worked out anyway because the social worker told my mom that there was only about a 50/50 chance of it working out because the judge that's on the seat now in our county is more likely to give the kids back to the parents or any relative or friend even if it's not a safe environment.

It's pretty sick what they're doing out here, the California government is running out of money, so one of the places they're taking it from is foster care. And then it makes the kids suffer.

Anyway, Brooke might get her hair cut today. She's donating it to Locks of Love.

We have to go to Wal Mart too. Always fun. :) I have to get some sort of khaki looking pants for VBS. I'm supposed to look "safari-ish", whatever that means. I guess theres some safari hat I'm supposed to wear too. Except I probably won't be able to wear it because 98% of the hats I try on to wear, don't fit my head. Hey, I have a big head, and tons of hair, you try fittin' that into a hat! :)

It almost rained yesterday! I though it was going to start any second and then, there was the sun. :(

I gotta go, thank you guys for all your prayers!

~Brianna

More randomness

Wow, I've had a long weekend.

Sunday, we went to church barbecue at our pastor's house then later that day we went to a church softball game. Brandon and I played on the team, it was really fun. Brandon got a home run! The bases were loaded, I was on third, then Brandon comes up to bat and bombs one in deep left field.
We thought some one was going to catch it but no one did and and he made it all the way around the bases! It was really cool!

Then on Monday Brooke and I babysat our friends kids. They have a 4 year old girl, she's so sweet, she calls me "Binana". And one and a half year old identical twin boys who are absolutely adorable.

D's mom got her own house, or apartment actually. I wouldn't call it an apartment though, it looks more like a garage. Before, she was living at her moms house(D's grandma) and it was very, very crowded.

Brandon has play rehearsal today. I can't believe VBS is on Monday! Time flies fast sometimes.

Well, there's another random post!

Anyway, I'm boiling hot and I should go. It's supposed to be 109 tomorrow. Yuck! I told my mom we should move to Iceland in the summer. :)

~Brianna

Happy late 4th of July!!!

Happy late 4th of July!

I was going to post yesterday but I totally forgot till it was pretty late and we were watching a movie.

Whew! I can't believe it's July already!

We still haven't heard anything from the social worker about the boys. When our other social worker was here on Wednesday she said he's new to the case and is probably just really busy. We're supposed to call him next week. Well, at least we haven't heard any bad news. We're just praying that we'll find out soon.

We also haven't heard from N, the little 7 year old girl we had for a couple weeks. After she moved with her aunt she always called us every few days. We've called a few times but nobody answered. She's probably on vacation or something. It's kinda strange though.

Anyway, today Brooke, mom, and are finishing making decorations for our VBS room. It's a jungle theme so we're cutting out birds and butterfly's and making tissue paper flowers. Those are really fun to make. I'll post a picture of them. They're really cute.

I'm thinking of starting Obsessed by Ted Dekker. I'm reading another book right know, but I'm at a boring part so I might start reading one more. I used to read 5 to 6 books at once. I don't do that now though. It's too hard to keep track of all the story's!

Wow, this is a very random post, oh well. We're supposed to get D today. I'll post some pictures of her tomorrow. She's grown quite a bit.

Gotta go!

~Brianna

Waiting

We still haven't heard anything about the little boys. I don't know if I've mentioned his before, but their mom is pregnant again, we'd get the baby too if it worked out.

Waiting is one of the hardest things to do on the road to foster-adoption. When we were called on baby's before for foster care we always knew within a few hours if it was going to work out or not. It's been over a week and we still don't know yet. The boys county social worker is supposed to call us. He hasn't yet, and each day is getting longer and longer while we wait.

We all jump every time the phone rings hoping and praying that it'll be someone with some news about them. The phone has rang three times while I was typing up this post. A medical office, some guy speaking Spanish trying to get us to switch to Dish Network, and a telemarketer. Apparently we won a free cruise to the Caribbean. Yea.

Ok, yes I may sound a little depressed. Waiting is so hard. Not that I don't have things to do, a social worker is coming over later for an inspection. Yeah, I'll save inspections for a whole other conversation. They're somethin' else.

I just wish we knew either way. We've been disappointed many times getting calls, social workers telling us that they found a distant relative that'll take the child, they've decided not to detain the kids, and so many other reasons. When got the call from D's social worker, then our little D was gone. We hope this phone call will be good news. This case with the boys looks promising, but again, you just never know.

Anyway, I have to get back to helping my mom clean out the garage.

I hope the phone rings soon.......

~Brianna