A Day With the Gray's

So here are the top 10 moments of 2010 that stood out to me. It is weird looking back it seems like some of these happened years ago and others seem just like yesterday.  1. January 2010 my grandfather passed away unexpectedly. I can remember as a kids spending much of my time in Mississippi at my grandparents. Every time my parents would come to pick me up I would beg to stay just one more week. Such great memories to pass on to my children. I was so happy to see my grandmother's sister, Aunt Louise, was able to make it to the funeral.  It has been years since I last saw her.  Papaw, you are greatly missed. I always loved you calling me Kris:) 2. Colin played Upward Basketball for the first time. It was so fun watching him learn, practice, and grow in this sport. He couldn't dribble a ball when he started and on the last game he scored his first goal (I think that is what you call it... or is that soccer?!?!)   3. Taking an overnight trip to Auburn with my sweet daught

Make that a Merry WHITE Christmas!  First ever!  The kids had so much fun in the snow. Dylan did NOT want to come inside! Bethany was super surprised with A CELL PHONE! Dylan wasn't super thrilled with opening presents  but he did sit down and let me take this cute pic of him:) Colin didn't sit still long enough for me to get a picture of him and his gifts  but he did get this neat little flying thingy:) (Yes, by the next day it was tangled up in sister's hair and we had to bring out the scissors:( ) Merry Christmas  and Happy Birthday  to our Lord and Savior!

Wow! My little ole blog is up to 20 followers... How exciting is that:) Maybe one day I will give you 20 kind people something to read:) I am such a bad blogger these days! For those of you who do not know... we had an answered prayer to Chad's job situation. He turned in his notice at WM after 11 years and now has a M-F job doing something that he LOVES TEACHING! We are also expecting our fourth blessing due July 22nd:) Pray with me that very soon we will get our house on the market and that it will sell quickly! It is not easy driving to Bham 6 days a week! Chad's job is there. Our church family is there. Our hearts are there. Life will be much easier when we move! Praying 

Rina Shpiruk is a friend of mine I met when adopting Anna Li. We used the same agency and brought our girls home around the same time. Rina adopted Myah and I believe she is around 3. Myah has had a rough year! She has had several surgeries and Rina has taken her to doctor's all across the US. She had emergency surgery Sunday to remove a tumor that had wrapped its self around her stomach! You can read more about her here: http://shpiruk.blogspot.com/ Awhile back, Rina sent in a "potty" story to Disney Family. Out of 40,000 people she was one of the finalist. What is so great about this is the winner gets 4 tickets to New York and that is where Myah needs to go to see a specialist. They are not able to afford the trip on their own as they have over $100,000 in medical bills. So... we need people to VOTE for her story!!! I am not going to lie.. it is a little aggrevating as you do have to create yourself a login... but really its only about 5 minutes and it is a great c

OK this is something You and I do NOT want to miss out on! 30 days of giveaways!!! COME ON... I feel like I am on the Ellen show:) Go on over to HERE to find out ALL the details Girls, this is gonna be fun Good Luck! PS. I won 2 adorable hats on Day 18!

And this is the way Christmas should be....