Surrogacy Number 2!!!

Yes indeed...I am pregnant again. This time with ONE baby, due at the very end of June. I had to fly out to California for the transfer, so Aunt Kaye and Sarah joined me to make sure I was fed while on bed rest. We had a wonderful time, laughed SOOOOO much, and enjoyed BEAUTIFUL Laguna Hills. The family of this precious baby is thrilled...almost 10 weeks down, so 30 more to go. I will keep you posted!

Family Photos

We are bad parents...just so you know. This is the first time we have EVER had our family picture taken! But to me...it was worth the wait for these AWESOME pictures. These we done by our good friend Kristen Joy...she is amazing and I will be happy to pass her info on to anyone looking for a great photographer (besides myself of course!)

Marin's Big Party

Our beautiful niece was 1 on September 23rd, but we celebrated last weekend with a FROG party. She was really into frogs, so Stephen and Jalyn took advantage of it, but we think she might be on the tail end of that phase! None the less...we had a blast. She was the BEST girl ever and we all had a wonderful time!
PS...look at her face with Jamie...she is SO over him!

ALASKA!!!!

What an AMAZING trip!!!!! Alaska and Canada were both SO beautiful that pictures don't come close to doing it justice!!!! The cruise was so fun, every port was different and exciting, and getting to travel with Grandma, PLUS seeing Jamie perform was a wonderful blessing. Just wanted to put some of the 1500 (or so) pictures up for you to see a little of what we experienced.

Headed to Alaska...

We leave for Alaska tomorrow, but it has not been an easy week getting there! I had a "medical concern" early this week that required most of my energy (but everything is 100% fine now), and then last night we learned that the Houston airport is closed this weekend due to hurricane Ike, and that was our connection to Seattle! Byron and Mom were up until after 1am trying to figure out how to get us there, and ended up having to get a refund from Continental and buying new tickets from Southwest that take us through Nashville. So the Good Lord Willin' (the creek don't rise) me, Selah and Grandma leave tomorrow around noon, and Byron flies out around 5pm. Please keep us in your prayers...no more glitches would be great! We are planning to have a terrific time, and I will update you as soon as we get home!
PS...these pictures are of my niece Marin...she has NOTHING to do with this blog, I just wanted everyone to see how DANG cute she is!!!!!!!!

Our New Love

It is a REALLY long story as to why we have ANOTHER dog...but here he is...
Prince Charming of Land O Lakes.
She named him (as you can tell) and he is the sweetest dog we have EVER owned. We rescued him from an animal shelter and he came to us so filthy and matted that we have to have him COMPLETELY shaved down the next day, so these are the before and afters.

Big Day!

The 1st tooth is OUT! It has been "hangin" in there for a while now...but on Sunday, Sept 1st, she bit into an apple and that was the end of it! The tooth fairy did come by last night, but I'll let her tell you about that..."The tooth fairy came and I wanted to catch her, but I didn't really. She gave me 2 bucks...2 bucks is alot people, 2 BUCKS! I put my tooth under my pillow and when I woke up in the middle of the night money was there...thats the end of the story. I love you" That is typical Selah! She ran into our room at about 2 AM screaming that the tooth fairy had come by...it was the sweetest thing ever! Thank you to all of our friends and family that told her she would probably get between $10 and $20...RIGHT!!!

Selah is in Kindergarten!

It is true Selah started Kindergarten last Monday (August 18th). She is doing great, hates Math (so she says), but other than that it is going well. She says..."Dear Family, I hope you're not mad that I'm in Kindergarten. I am a little nervous that I'm in Kindergarten. I'm mad too that because I got on yellow because I was talking in line. But my favorite part of Kindergarten was I got "Turtle Tokens"! And I learned all about Turtles, I learned that if someone flips over a turtle on its shell it will die, might not melt, but not have any food or drink. And that the Mommy turtle lays eggs and when the eggs hatch the Mommy never comes back. Thank you, I hope you enjoy this." Ok...that was REALLY Selah talking! She is so funny!

The WHOLE Poore Family

Thought everyone might want to see ALL the members of our family. While Selah is our oldest child we have 2 K-9 children that are bigger than her. Nylah (the gray spotted one) is 2 1/2 years old, and Duke (the black one) just turned 1 this month. Yes they are Great Danes, and Yes, they live in our little house with us! Big babies!

Tennessee Trip

We had the most WONDERFUL time in Tennessee. This was the first time the 3 of us went on vacation together and we loved it so much we are going to ALASKA in September! Can't wait!
In Tennessee we went hiking (shown here), horseback riding, to Rock City, Ruby Falls, and then stayed in Nashville for 5 days...it was awesome. Selah was such a good girl. You should see this child hike!
Sorry that I have not been keeping up with this...I am taking alot of heat from the fam, so I will try to do better!

My First Day

Everyone else in my family is doing it...so I guess I need to start blogging (is that even a word?) I am mainly doing this to keep Jamie updated on Selah...but it should be fun!