Fun Weekend with the McGurrin Family

My sister Kim called me Friday and said that her and her family wanted to get away for the weekend. So they made a shot-gun trip to our house. It was fun! We got up Saturday and I took the kids to Krispy Kreme. (Anytime Aunt Shell is around the nieces / nephews...I take them to get donuts.. and they don't let me forget!)

Saturday afternoon we went to the outlets. Then we went swimming and ate a Chris Madrids.

It made my weekend to have my niece and nephews come down. Madison and Mitchell and Garrett slept in our room too. It was fun hanging out with Kim and Mason as well. What a great surprise to have them come down! Love you guys and thanks for a great weekend!

I forgot to take pictures, but here are some pictures of the kiddos that came to visit us this weekend.

Thanks Nanna!!

My mom has a little tradition (I guess that's what you call it) where she buys each of us our first crib for when we start having babies. My mom was in town last weekend and we got to go pick out my crib and of course we have it all set up and ready to go.....minus the mattress and bedding.

And we have painted the room. We did green on the walls because it'll go with the pink and green bedding I have picked out or the blue, green and brown bedding I have picked out.

We've Been Approved!!

Tyler and I were approved at the beginning of last week for adoption. That pretty much means we have submitted EVERYTHING we can possibly do at this point and that our file is being shown to birth mothers for us to be picked (hopefully soon)!

To celebrate this last week, I bought a book, "Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born" by Jamie Lee Curtis. And since I am bored and don't have anything to do.... here's the story:




Tell me again about the night I was born.
Tell me again how you and Daddy were curled up like spoons and Daddy was snoring.
Tell me again how the phone rang in the middle of the night and they told you I was born. Tell me again how you screamed.
Tell me again how you called granny and grandpa right away, but they didn't hear the phone because they sleep like logs.
Tell me again how you got on an airplane with my baby bag and flew to get me and how there was no movie, only peanuts.
Tell me again how you couldn't grow a baby in your tummy, so another woman who was too young to take care of me was growing me and she would be my birth mother, and you would adopt me and be my parents.
Tell me again how you held hands all the way to the hospital and when you got there you both got very quiet and felt very small.
Tell me again about the first time you saw my through the nursery window and how you couldn't believe something so small could make you smile so big.
Tell me again how tiny and perfect I was.
Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms and called me your baby sweet. Tell me again how you cried happy tears.
Tell me again how you carried me like a china doll all the way home and how you glared at anyone who sneezed.
Tell me again about my first bottle and how I liked it so much.
Tell me again about my first diaper change and how I didn't like it at all.
Tell me again about the first night you were my daddy and you told me about baseball being the perfect game, like your daddy told you.
Tell me again about the first night you were my mommy and you sang the lullaby your mommy sang to you.
Tell me again about our first night as a family.
Mommy, Daddy, tell me again about the night I was born.

That is such a sweet book and it gets me every time. ;-)