catching up with some summer photos

Kylie got her first motorcycle ride with Mark this Labor Day weekend. Don't you love her helmet...a bike helmet of all things. Needless to say she LOOOVED it! But...they did get pulled over by a fish and game warden who gave them a warning for riding on forest service roads without a legal license (which Mark claims is a new rule to him). So now whenever Mark goes off to ride Kylie tells him "Don't let the man get you daddy!"

The second picture is from our summer adoptive families picnic. This is Shaelyn and she lives about 50 miles from us. Her family used the same small adoption agency we did in MT. AND Shealyn is from the same orphanage as Kylie in Guixi, China. Small world since we live so close together and Guixi is considered a very small rural orphanage with only 70 some children. So we feel really special knowing Kylie will grow up knowing another "little" girl from her hometown. Shealyn is 10(ish) years old and a real beauty!

And the third picture is yet another one from our Flathead adoptive families picnic this summer. There are three girls (including Kylie) who were are all brought home in the summer of 2004 (and who all are the same age, now 3) and one big sister who loooves playing with all the little girls. We are so lucky that there are 4 little girls who all came home in August and November of 2004 and are all the same ages. So they will all grow up together.

Well the winds have finally died down (wind gusts reported as high as 60mph!!) and Kylie is on her way home after spending a day at Nana's (aka Mark's mom). My peace and quiet will be coming to an end. Sweet dreams to all!