Funny Story

For the adoption our worker needed copy of Hannah's last report card so Jess scanned it and email it to her. A couple of days later we got her current report card in the mail which was awesome! She had 2 A+, 3A & 3B. So I electronically faxed her new one to Jeff and wrote on the cover letter

"Hey! Thought you would want to send this report card to Mai Yer. Much Better!

Love Your Loony Wife (with a smiley face waving)

Well Jeff didn't read the cover letter he just PDF'd the whole thing and then emailed to our adoption worker. I don't know, maybe she already thought that I was loony and that just confirmed her suspicions. Oh well. I will have to be careful what I write to Jeff who knows hat could end up out there?

On the Adoption Front

Just thought that I would let everyone know that the 60 appeal after the parental termination is officially over. Her bio's will never be able to get het back. So we are now officially in the adoption process of Halle Ila Blum. Jef and I took a two day adoption course this last weekend. We are getting all our lttle ducks lined up in the midst of packing and moving. Busy times! Halle also started walk at Aunt Jessica's house and Grandma Kriser's house this weekend while they were babysiting. Our life as we knew it is over. They grow way too fast!

LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME FOR BUSTER

I can't remember if I have mentioned that we have to move in November. The house we are renting is going into foreclosure. It has been really difficult to find another house to rent that allow pets and if they do the pet deposits are rediculous! So unforunately we are not going to be able to keep Buster. We got Buster at 6 weeks old right after Jack was run over and poor Buster is always being compared to Jack, which is really unfair to him because Jack was 7 and he is still a puppy. The kids rarely help take care of him and I don't have the time that he deserves. We need to find him a new family.

He is 1 1/2 year old full bred Miniature Schnauzer. He is a salt, pepper & liver parti mix which is very rare. He is current on all of his shots and has been double micro-chipped.

He is the sweetest dog, loves to play with the kids, is a great kitchen floor vacuum. The best part is that he doesn't shed and he is hypo-allergenic. If anyone is interested please email at noelblum@gmail.com or you can call me at 916-370-3422. The link below is where we purchase him. We are asking $350 obo.

http://www.rpuppies.com/

Hudson Antics

Hudson wearing one of Grandma Blum's play costumes.

Great black mail picture for later!

Independent Hudson made his own PB&J

Hudson fell asleep on Grandpa Kriser's lap. VERY RARE occasion!!!

Hudson's idea of putting his clothes away.

Halle's News & Antics

We went to court on August 4th where the judge terminated Halle's bio's parental right. They didn't even show up for court. The judge adopted all the paper work into the courts and looked at Jeff and I and said "Take good care of her!" So we are officially in the process of adopting her. We have to wait sixty days for them to appeal but that will be up in on October 4th. We have pretty much everything ready to go except our live scan and the homestudy. We are thrilled and will be so glad to have everything finalized. Hopefully that will happen before the end of the year! What better Christmas present!

Jeff kept saying that the day that Halle's parental rights were terminated he was going to take her to have her ears pierced. He wasn't kidding. As soon as we got home from court we piled the kids into the car and took Halle to Claire's and had her ears pierced. She only cried for a second and then was perfectly happy the rest of the night

It's kind of funny, Halle isn't walking yet but she sure can climb. I was cutting hair one afternoon and I could hear her banging on what I thought was the sliding glass door. This is what I found when I looked over. She was trying to see Peacow. Jeff was sitting right there but he thought the same thing I did. Between her climbing and putting everything she can find in her mouth we can't take our eyes off of her for a second.

Summer Fun at Beal's Point

The day after the 4th of July we all went to Beal's Point at Folsom Lake to play.
The kids had a ball playing in the water. Afterward we all went to Grandma and Grandpa Kriser's for a yummy dinner of Grandpa's famous BBQ chicken. MMM MMM!

A few weeks later we went camping there with Jessica and her family. We had so much fun! The cousins do love to be together. Jared and Hudson are two peas in a pod. Great company and great food. What more could you ask for?

Growing Peacow

We can't believe that Peacow started out as such and tiny peachick. Look at him now. The amazing thing is he can really fly high but he never leaves our yard. He has really kept the spiders and bugs down which has been great! He is so tame that we can still perch him on our shoulders and pet him. It has been fascinating to watch this creature grow. The other funny thing is he hardly makes any noise except little chirping sounds. He doesn't make the typical "screaming" sounds. I wonder if it because he hasn't been around other peacocks. Who knows...one of life's mysteries I guess.

The other day Peacow pecked at Hudson because he was teasing him.
Hudson: "Daddy I hate bwirds!"
Daddy: "What did you say?"
Hudson: "I hate bwirds"
Daddy: "I can't understand what you are saying"
Hudson: Out of total frustration rolls his eyes and say "Dad! Creatures that fly!"
Daddy: Shocked and laughing says, "Thank you for the Webster definition!"

Never a dull moment!

Holy Peacow!

I got this great shot of Hudson and Peacow today. It cracks me up everytime I look at it! Peacow is getting big and really starting to get his colors. I can't believe how much Hudson looks like my nephew Jaxon in this picture!

I'm SOOOOOO Frustrated

As I'm sure you can tell I haven't updated our blog in a while, so tonight I decided that I really need to do some serious updating. I have officially, royally screwed everything up so bear with me as I try to figure out the the heck I have done to my blog.

I'm Always Playing Catch-Up

I do so well sometimes keeping up my blog and then I seem to get bogged down by our everyday life. Some things gotta give right?! And so here I am AGAIN playing catch-up!
So much has happened since my last posting. I'll start with Halle's 1st birthday. Has it already been a year???? We celebrated her birthday on Father's Day. We had both family's over for a Father's Day/Birthday dinner. Everyone had a good time! Especially Halle (pictures to come). Halle has grown so much in every way. She has a stinkin' cute personality! She is up to almost a whoppin' 14 pounds. We met with our state adoption worker a couple of weeks ago and there was a discussion about whether we were going to continue calling her Halle or if we going to change her name. He name that her mom gave her is Alijuandra Davene. Originally we had shortened it to Ali and then we started thinking that if we adopted her we didn't want her to feel left out by no having an "H" name so we started calling her Halle. Our worker told us that if we were going to change her name to do it now. The problem is we can't agree on a name. There aren't a lot to choose from in the "H" department. We want he middle name to be Ila after Jeff's mom's mom. But we have had a hard time finding a first name to flow with it. I want to name her Hazel Ila. She is an old soul in a baby's body. I have said that since the day we got her. But then I said she looked like a Mable. I think Hazel fits her but there is no way that I will be able to convince Jeff. I THINK that we have conceded to Halle Ila. But don't mark my words on that. It seems to change on a daily basis. If you have any opinions please share. She is almost walking. She has been trying to walk for several weeks but I won't let her. It's all I can do some days to keep up with Hudson boy! She will be walking by the end of the week unfortunately!

Hhhmmmmm....what else? This is why I should post more often because I forget the funny things that the kids do and say.

This one is for Dr. O...to preface, we all have to have physicals for the adoption process. I took Hudson in for his and Dr. O was making sure that everything had "descended properly". During this process Hudson all of a sudden groans and says "Oh! My tenders!". Seriously I almost died. I never know what is going to come out of his mouth.

A couple of weeks ago Jeff's mom bought Hudson some dinosaur pajamas and his cousin Sagie a princess dress. Sage's response was, with her hands to her chest and sweet as pie "For me?" In contrast when Hudson saw the pj's his response in complete and utter excitement was "What the Hell?!!!". Oh my heavens! What am I going to do with him. I can only imagine that phone calls that we will be getting when he starts school.