BOOOOOOO!!

I didn't startle you with a new posting did I??
I wrote alittle paragraph to start the blog and then I added some fun reunion pictures and they all showed up before the paragraph and I didn't want to move all the pictures, there ended up being alot of them. I just couldn't stop adding they were all so great. So you can read the beginning of the blog at the end. We had a great time at the reunion the kids had fun and they love to look at the pictures when we have them on the computer. Some of the pictures I'll add comments to and the others you can just have fun looking at.

This was the critter box all the caterpillars and grass hoppers got put in here.

These 3 pictures are so funny to me. There was no one out there she was just going on a walk by herself.

The snow cones were a hit. We will have to do them again!! We had them on the perfect day.

Do you love this mop on her head??

These are the pictures we took for Shea's baptism. They all turned out so great. Leah does a great job taking pictures she drove her all over the place getting just the right shot. She had a beautiful table out with the pictures in white frames for the baptism.

This is the whole clan that attended the reunion. We were missing a couple of brothers and thier families. We would have been double in size!!

These are all the nieces and nephews that live in AZ the other half live out of state. What a group...ps do you love the church pew they are sitting on?? I got them on craigs list for free from an old church we got 4.

These are Shea's paint ball wounds.....

This is the whole paint ball group some of them are quite scary don't you think.

We had a make your own pizza night and Jesse was right there in the mix helping out.




This was a long drive for some of these kids .



I think there may be a law about how many kids can be in a car all at once.


This was a great lunch... it looks like we had sour cream.....


This is just one of our watermellon lovers.

I have really had alot of things to blog about but I haven't taken the time to sit and do it...I don't use the excuse that don't have time because that is the farthest from the truth. I can sit and read blogs all day long. PS. if you have a list of blogging friends on your site you can bet I have visited them. I love to see some of the things other families do...is that nosey or curious?? or neither??? We have had so much go on here since the last entry by my trusted blog secretary. we've been camping, gone to the train park, we got a new swing set, we've had play dates with friends, our recent activity was to make halloween decorations that was fun....we did ghosts, spiders and skeletens. We are still going to make black cats, pumkins, and bats. i will post that one as soon as my media tech downloads the pictures. I have been taking pictures all along so I do have some to go with each entry now I just need to get focused!! For today I'll post some fun family reunion pics of the kids...they are so stinkin cute and they are getting so big so fast...it has been a year and a half that they have been here and we are already doing hand - me - downs....which is great but no fun for me because I love to shop....my favorite mall to go to is the Good Will Mall it has all kinds of name brands (or not) in all sizes and styles. It's a one time shopping stop.

Shea Lee's Baptism day...

It's Rhonda again.. I was just downloading some pictures on my computer and realized I had one of Shea on her baptism day.. Leah has all the rest that were taken that day so we'll have to get them from her and post some more.. (I stopped in the middle of playing prelude to take this one...)

The day turned out fabulously. Besides her family being there, she invited her teacher from school who came. (her teacher told us she asked her as she was running out the door one day- sounds like our "on the go" Shea) Her cousins Vanessa & Jordan did a fantastic job with the talks and the primary room was filled with people showing their love and support of Shea.

Shea asked Kent to perform the baptism and James confirmed her on Sunday.

Kent & Shea Lee Shreeve on her baptism day- Sept. 6, 2008

Watch out Temple Here we come!

I'm sure that all kids are perfect when they are at the temple but we'll be bringing 5 and just today they managed to get into Shea's markers and permanently tattoo themselves so I hope the temple's children's room has padded walls with nothing to break or write on permanently.

Thanks to Rhonda my personal blogger who updated my blog (which by the way you can do anytime!!) We are all legally a family. The little kids are getting used to saying their names with Ziegler as the last name. I love it!! I loved our day in court. It was so nice to have such amazing support from family and friends. We love you!! Thanks for sharing that day with us!!

An Invitation

To all of our friends and loved ones....We want to invite you to our family's sealing Saturday Sept. 27 at 11:15 in the Mesa, AZ Temple. We want you to be part of our family miracle. Our day won't be the same if you're not there. There will be plenty of room for you in the temple.... we have the big room and you've heard of the story of the loaves and fishes..... It will work out.

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We would also love for you to join us afterwards for lunch. We've reserved a room at the HomeTown Buffett on Scottsdale Rd (Scottsdale Rd just south of McDowell on the east side of the street.) We would really love for you to join us so we can catch up and visit!! We'll be done in plenty of time for all of our beautiful sister friends to attend the General Relief Society Broadcast - I know I don't want to miss it!!

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I did make a beautiful invitation...just one and I took a picture of it and I'll post it sometime soon so you can see your invitation. We are still waiting on a family picture. I could use the one we took at the zoo but I don't think that would go so great with the invites.

We love you,

James

Myrna

Shea-Lee Ann Shreeve

Joey James Ziegler

Jordan James Ziegler

Jesse James Ziegler

Samantha Maria Ziegler

We're Official!!

OK- so Myrna's been super busy lately so I'm going to update her blog with some of the stuff I put on my blog since it was about her and her family anyway....lol. So... here goes.. (ps this is Rhonda)
So, now it's official. Myrna & James are the proud parents of 5 children. Shea kept her name the same and the rest of the kids just had their last names changed. We went out to lunch afterwords at Shea & Grandma & Grandpa Shreeve's favorite restaurant.. Home Town Buffet. It was a fantastic day and fun to see so many people there to support the event. (Leah, Kent, Roy & Harrison, Rhonda Adam, Grandma & Grandpa Ziegler, Stacie & Jordan, Shea's grandparents the Lindquists, and Grandma & Grandpa Shreeve. There wasn't a seat left in the small courtroom.)

Now for the best part... PICTURES!

Shea Lee, Samantha, Jessie, James, Jordan, Joey, Myrna with Judge Thomas Kaipio in the courtroom after the adoption.

Are we done taking pictures yet??

Joey & Samantha - look at those grins!

Samantha with Grandma & Grandpa Shreeve @ their favorite restaurant
Jessie & Leah
Samantha "Sister" hangin' out at Home Town Buffet

Jordan- eating red jello with his fingers.
James & Jessie James (Father & son- how awesome is that!)
Shea Lee & Grandpa Shreeve- thoroughly enjoying eating at their favorite restaurant
Sister & Myrna (mother & daughter... the story just keeps getting better & better)
Shea Lee & Leah
Jessie- couldn't you just eat him??
(well literally you probably could- 1/2 of his lunch is on his shirt and face.)
Joey- look at that smile! Jordan- LOVEs to have his picture taken
Sister with the ice cream cone she licked about 5 times then gave to Grandpa

We are almost Official!!!!

We got some great news this last week!! We have the official word from the people who give the official word that we have an adoption date...for all 5!! September 4th at 10:30am at the Mesa court house. We are so excited!! We also have some other great news...Shea has been taking the lessons and she will be baptized September 6th we don't have the time yet. We will be calling the temple this week to see about getting a sealing date soon also!!

What a journey this has been. I know we aren't done but we have had an awesome start. We have had 110% support from everyone around us. All the kids have been so accepted into our families. They have made great friends at school and church. We have made great friends through our foster care agency. Best of all we have been able, after all this time, to feel how amazing it is to have a family of our own...little people to teach, to learn from and to love so deaply that it cannot be explained - and only known through first hand experience - I know this because I love all little children and we've had alot of kids in our home for day care and we have lots of nieces and nephews. Love them all forever!!.....Now we are able to see a glimps of how much Heavenly Father loves us all because we are His children.

Cereal Lover!

I don't have any pictures for this entry but I have to tell this hilarious story or thing that happened yesterday......well it happens often. I know that this is not rare I know that this girl is not so far above average that she is the only one to do this but to see it first hand....I'll tell you this love bug is too much for me!!!!
Yesterday I was in the kitchen making dinner after church. The kids usually come upstairs and play around while I'm getting it ready. Samantha loves to get into the cupboards and get stuff out. Sometimes it is OK and sometimes I tell her to get out. Well I let her and she looked all over the cupboards and opened the one that I put all my big bowls. She picks out the small Tupperware bowl you know the one its not the big one with the thumb hole but it was the one just smaller than that one. She got it and then took it to the table where sometimes we leave out the cereal....it was out so the next thing I heard was cereal being poured...I thought great we're gonna have to pick up cereal off the floor. It was my lucky day. Samantha had poured most of the box of cereal perfectly into this big bowl. I know it may by one of those stories that you had to be there but...she is so small and it was so funny the cereal box is as big as she is!!!! Her other favorite thing to do with cereal is to pick up the bowl and drink the milk out of it. These things are so funny to me because she is so small and she is starting to do such big girl things!!!
We Love Her!!!!!