The love of 2 mothers

What can I say about the woman who has given me the opportunity to do what I have waited for, for so long.

Just moments after our son was born we shared this incredible moment!  Some may never understand how much she loves him, but I do.  I seen the tears she shed as she placed this sweet baby in our arms and our family.

We will share this tender moment, and hopefully someday the world will see open adoption as a beautiful thing!!  We love you M!!

SEVEN YEARS!!!

    
 On May 15, 2011 we celebrated SEVEN years of marriage.  To celebrate we went to Steamboat Springs Colorado for the night.  We have pets at home so we didn't want to leave them for too long!! 

Out exploring the town.  It was so beautiful outside, and we walked around the town for a couple of hours!! 

Seven years of marriage!!!! 

I always liked to play dress up when I was a kid, and I still do.  This scarf was super cute however it was like 50 bucks!! Way too much money.

Paul and Einstein!!!! Catching some rays.

Good old Honest Abraham Lincoln and myself!  

I love you this much!!! 

There's a reason they call this God's country!! 

We had an amazing time in Steamboat Springs!!!

Love, April

Date Night!!

Cory & Elena  

                                
                 Dominic & Amber

"Us".  What a fun night with probably our closest friends from church.  We had a blast that night.  Dinner (not so good) followed by a movie Thor.  We had a blast.  Did I mentioned pre dinner shopping, just us gals!  

Family Reunion V Style

Joseph's Family:
That's us!!  13 and counting.  Michelle and Ryan have a "bun in the oven".  Baby H is going to be joining us in September.

                                                       Percy's Family

Liz's Family:
Liz is Paul's "Nina" or Godmother.  

                                                          Anita's Family

Sam's Family!

            

                                                           Bea's Family!

Silvia's Family!

There was 170+ people in attendance at this family reunion.  It was a lot of fun.  We also celebrated Easter while at the reunion.  

All because two people fell in LOVE!!!!  That was the theme of the reunion.

      

Love,  April

Updates!

Happy Sunday,
I thought I'd do a little catching up on the blog tonight.  It's quite possible there will be a few posts, as to keep them not so long....

Paul's family is primarily Lutheran's.  We had the pleasure of going to help them celebrate their faith, while three family members were baptized into their faith.

Jennifer, Caitlyn and Demetrius were all baptized.  John was raised Lutheran so was baptized when he was a baby.  What a perfect little family.

What a beautiful family.  Love being part of the "V" clan. 

Catching up!

Life seems to get busy, and somethings get set to the wayside.  Our blog has suffered because of how busy we have been.  It's a good busy!  We have been very babysitting for friends, preparing for races and getting our house painted.  All fun stuff, if you ask me.

Paul had become quite the babysitter.  Always available to lend a hand to our friends.  We just love having children in our home.  Running around, playing with what little toys we have.  Making a mess!!  That's my favorite.  Besides, it's easy to clean up when you only have one little bin of toys.  We can't wait for the day that we can go to Toys R Us and stock up on all the fun toys out there.

I have been busy getting in shape, preparing for the Ragnar Relay.  Can you say Run, Eat, Drive, Sleep, Repeat?  That's the motto for the race.  It is a 12 person relay race and we did the one in Southern California.  Huntington Beach to Coronado Island 200.9 miles.

16.0 miles, that was my portion of the mileage!!!  4.3 on leg one
5.6 on leg two
6.1 on the last leg!!!

I was lucky enough to share Van #1 with these 5 amazing women.  Gabby runner #3, myself runner #4, Erin runner #1, Mallory runner #2, Nikki runner #6 and Lynette runner #5.  What an awesome group.  Our van really got along well and it was a memory that I will cherish forever.  Thanks Ladies!!

My favorite show ever!!! The Biggest Loser... this is us with 2 of past season contestants.  Season #1 winner Eric, and season #9 Sione.  Yea, for meeting "famous people".

This is all 12 of us after runner #12 crossed the finish line!!!  200.9 miles completed, where is the next race?

Oh yes, it's the FSA Adoption 5K.  There's still time to sign up:  www.redlineraces.com





We got our master bedroom and bath painted.  We painted the bedroom green and the bath purple.  It looks really nice.  While I was in California Paul put up the pictures and candle holders.  Pictures to come.

That's enough for one post I think.  There is more to post, and hopefully I can get it done in a timely fashion.

Love Always,
April!!

Dogs and Cat

Our pets are so much a part of our family.  Kokoa and Aspen are playing with "daddy",  trying to get as much loving as they possibly can.  We were actually trying to assemble the Christmas tree.  Can you tell they missed us while we were in Kansas?

Buddy!!!

Buddy loves to lie in Paul's chair as soon as he goes to bed!! NOT SOILED?