Surprise!

We celebrated Uncle Bub's birthday this weekend because we will miss it when we are gone. When I told Zoya Uncle Bub was coming and it was his birthday she signed "surprise." A few weeks ago we went to a surprise birthday party. Zoya was so intrigued by this concept. We all sat in the garage and when the door opened everyone of course yelled "SURPRISE!" Zoya signed "surprise" the rest of the night and kept saying "more" and "up" (for the garage door to go up).

Ever since then she has been wanting to surprise people. She thinks its fun to send someone out of the room, turn the lights off and then turn the lights on when they come back and yell "surprise." LOL. She signs it and says "PRY" So when it was time for cake we sent Uncle Bub out of the kitchen, turned the lights off and when he walked in (so unsuspecting hahaha) we all yelled SURPRISE! Oh Zoya was sooo enthusiastic about it! We actually had to repeat the scene several times per Zoya's request. She looked at me like, "we really got him good mom!" So proud of herself!!!

SURPRISE!

It just never gets old!!!

Signing "Surprise!"

(Here is the ASL sign for surprise...pretty close!)

And what happened next had us laughing so hard we almost peed our pants  cried! This girl is something else! At least she made it a memorable birthday for Uncle Bub!

(girl just started shaking her head like a wild woman and smearing frosting all over her face!)

"Aaaaannnnnd I'm DONE!"

I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as we enjoyed watching our crazy girl! And let me just say, that was one heck of a bath she needed after!! Oh how I'm going to miss my crazy love while we go adopt baby sister! But it will all be worth it in the end :)



Fall Fun!

We are trying to enjoy our last weekend together as a family of three :) The weather here is absolutely gorgeous this time of year. I'm convinced there is no place more beautiful than where we live come fall time! The oranges and yellows and greens and reds and browns of the trees are breathtaking!

Here are some fun pictures from our day today at the fall festival!

Beautiful girl

Petting some animals...keeping a tight grip on Mama ;)

Mama doesn't love Llamas! Can you see it written all over my face?? LOL

I am showing this picture for no other reason than to show you this cool haircut on this animal LOL!

Feeding the goats

Zoya was trying to feed them hay instead of the food Daddy bought for 50 cents!

LOVE this picture...Zoya was thinking "don't move and he'll go away, just don't move a muscle!" She was frozen like that until the goat stuck his head back inside hahaha!

Helping Daddy feed her favorite goat

Love when she looks at me like this...my sweet girl loves me so much!

Matching faces here :)

They were shooting pumpkins at a target and it was loud and every time it went off Zoya did this and said "Weeeeeeee"

This girl FINALLY LOVES and appreciates ice cream!!!  If you don't remember watch this video to see Zoya's first and typical reaction to ice cream for a long time!

But just look at her now...she appreciates the finer things in life...like chocolate peanut butter ice cream!!! YUM!

Daddy making her laugh!

Focusing...

Brain Freeze!!!

But it's sooooo worth it!

No idea what she was saying here....

Blurry but too cute not to share...so excited!

I am astounded by her beauty every day!

So beautiful this time of year!

On the way back we rolled the windows down and let the breeze blow through our hair! Zoya just loves doing this! Here she is signing "green" because we are stopped at a red light and she said "GOOOO" so the wind would blow through her hair and I told her we had to wait for a green light!

Oh this girl knows how to enjoy life....

Happy Fall Friends!!