It's beginning to feel a lot like...

Christmas! Work is winding down, school is out, presents are getting wrapped, Grandma and Grandpa are in town and the excitement level at our house is up, WAY UP! The kids are so excited for Christmas this year (and I am too!). Tonight we all "talked through" our Christmas plans for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It was fun to listen to the kids talk about each and every thing that we will be doing over those two days. It even sounds like Santa might be bringing some snow with him on Christmas Eve.
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Cian and his PT panda from school. This little guy travel home each night with a different child and fills up his notebook with adventures. Cian wanted to play dress up with PT.
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Maeve posing in one of her many Christmas dresses. Too bad these can only be worn for such a short amount of time. This one was made by Grandma!
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Fintan...just being cute.
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Fintan and Maeve hanging out in Buzz's tent.
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Cian and Tex (he is our newest member of the household) our Chihuahua. This is Tex's first Christmas too. We would like his gift to us to be getting himself potty trained! (It has been a long 4 months since he came home!)
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Aidan and Maeve. Aidan takes the big brother role very seriously and lately he has been so great with Maeve. He is constantly playing with her and helping her with everything.
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Maeve's story

Hop on over to Great Wall's blog and you can read a story we submitted about our journey to find Maeve!

http://www.gwca.org/blog/

Maeve's first snow

It didn't stay around for long, but we managed to get some good play time in before it went away.

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Good news!

We received great news today about my mom. Her breast cancer has not spread!!!!!!! We are so relieved and can now focus on the treatment ahead. She goes in for a port-a-cath tomorrow and then starts chemo next week. She still has a long road ahead, but the outlook is much better. Thanks for the support and prayers!