Polar Express @ Highland

Brooklyn, Shaleigh, Grinch, Trinity, Rali

Cody with the Grinch

The girls with Ms. Claus

Cody with Ms. Claus

The girls with Pecas

Cody with him

Shaleigh was coloring and Cody wanted to help

The girls with Cowgirl Candy CaneCody's turn with her

The girls in front of the Polar Express Train

Shaleigh and Cody with Mr McBroom the conductor

Shaleigh with Mr McBroom

The kids in front of the train

The Polar Express came to Highland and all the kids and their families were invited to come on the adventure. We took Shaleigh and Cody and after we got there Shaleigh met up with some of her friends and we followed behind. The kids were really nice to let me take their picture with each of the characters and then followed with Cody. The staff did a wonderful job and we enjoyed the fun and fellowship with her friends and the town.

Cody's Adoption Hearing

Our lawyer, Shaleigh, me, Dan, Cody, and the judge

Being sworn in by the judge

Shelly, CV, Grace, and Cody

Us with the judge

Margaret(agency representative) and Cody

All of us after the judge made the adoption of Cody final

Well the weekend of November 30 will always be special to our family. That is the day that Cody legally became our son. We along with Lee, Kristie and the kids traveled to Abilene and met up with Shelly and Grace to go to lunch and then over to the hearing. The judge was a very sweet lady and the lawyer was wonderful. The whole hearing Cody just sat there and ate puffs out of my hand. When she banged the gavel she said it was a 14 puff hearing. She couldn't wait to get her hand on on him and she just had to love on Shaleigh also.

Afterwards we left to go to Wichita Falls and then on to Weatherford. We had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed our time with family.

The littlest Christmas Angel of the family

We have so enjoyed getting to experience all the new stuff again with Cody. He seems to be moving faster than Shaleigh....could it be because he is the youngest and is wanting to keep up with Shaleigh and the cousins. The will all get down and crawl up to him, talk to him, and jump up and take off. He looks at them like...wait a minute where are you going. I know I have enjoyed watching him learn how to crawl with the aide of Shaleigh and also pulling up on furniture and crying because he can't figure out how to get back down on his butt or knees. Shaleigh will breeze around the corner and sit him back down and take off again. She is such a wonderful big sister. Cody is indeed a very lucky young man.

Christmas Angels

Shaleigh, Cody, and Lucas (Lee and Kristie's son)

Lucas

Trinity (Lee and Kristie's foster daughter) , Lucas, Cody, and Shaleigh

Love this one of them

Kristie and a friend of hers had a special going that Kristie would make a dress and Alesha would take the pictures all for the price of $30.00. We went up and got ready to have the pictures taken. They were taken by Simply Beautiful Photography and I think they turned out great. Here are the results......

Sock Hop (50's day)

Shaleigh in her poodle skirt ready for 50's day at school

Some of Shaleigh's classmates

Gracie, Jazmine, and Melody some of Shaleigh's friends from school

Cimmarron on the bouncy ball during the racesShaleigh and Cimmarron in their 50's clothes

Gracie, Shaleigh, and Cimmarron dressed for 50's day at school

Shaleigh on the bouncy ball during the races

Loved this one of her

Another one of her on the ball

Let's do the limbo...how low can you go

Cimmarron with the hula hoop

Shaleigh at the hula hoop part

Bean bag toss

Let's do the twist...nananana.....okay folks let get ready for a sock hop. You heard right the sock hop has begun.

Shaleigh had so much fun getting to experience her very first dress up day at school....50's day.....sock hop. Let's have fun. They took all of Kindergarten to the gym and they had 5 stations set up. They had the bouncy ball races, the hula hoop, bowling, limbo, and last but not least the bean bag toss. The kids had so much fun going from station to station and laughing their butts off.

My favorite to watch was the bouncy ball races. Shaleigh was dressed up in that poodle skirt with that can can underneath it and it would bounce all over the place as she bounced on the ball. She loves to hula hoop and couldn't understand why she couldn't keep the hoop going....I just told her it was because of her big skirt. She just laughed and off she went.

She had so much fun and she looks forward to many more events in school.

Halloween

Shaleigh and Jo visiting during treat time

Shaleigh and Marcella

Shaleigh and Daphne

Shaleigh and Carmen

It's a bird...no it's a plane....no it's Super Kori

Shaleigh, Cody, Lucas, and Trinity

Shaleigh

Shaleigh and Cody

Cody

Cody exhausted after a long Halloween weekend of fun and games

I love Halloween because that is the time of year that Shaleigh and now Cody goes out and gives treats to those who are for the most part home bound. They look forward to Shaleigh coming every year and look for her and if we don't come they call us. These are just a few pictures of Shaleigh with her ladies that she visits and soon Cody will join in. Cody was so tired by the time Halloween night was over as you can see from the picture above.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN ALL.......