Ava's Gotcha Day! We are BLESSED!

Six years ago today we received our baby girl in China!   Happy Gotcha Day Avie Lu!! We are still in awe that God chose us to be your parents!!   What a blessing you are!!!  WE love you!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Momma Birthday FUN!!

All birthdays are BIG around here!  Its the one day a year that's ALL yours so we CELEBRATE!!!  This week we got to celebrate Momma:)  Wednesday Keagan and Megan surprised us with a visit!    Thursday we had a bon fire and Grandma and Grandpa Bogard came out as well as Megan!!  So much fun!  Hot dogs and brats!  Trampoline jumping....the girls even got Grandma on the trampoline!!!  Cake and ice cream!! YUMMY!!

Friday..the actual birthday Momma worked, but my work family was sweet and got me a cake!!!!  What a GREAT birthday!!

Momma and the Girls!

Helping with the candles!

Ava cutting the cake!

The cake servers!!

Ava helping cook!

Both girls helping make Momma supper!

Kerrigan and Daddy

Grandma, Grandpa and Kerrigan

Making Grandma jump on trampoline

She loves Grandma and Grandpa so much!

Ava and Megan!!  AWESOME pic!!

Love a bon fire!

Cake from my work family

Thank you everyone for making my day extra special!!! Love you all!

Fun times in St Louis!

Today we headed to St Louis to watch Dayno in the Naga World Tournament!  It was alot of fun to watch him wrestle!  We were all cheering him on, even Kerrigan yelled Day a couple times!!!  He placed 2nd and got a nice big medal!! LOTS of fun!

Ready to cheer on Bubby!!

Ready for his match!

Then we headed to the hotel where we were staying and ordered pizza, swam and got to visit!  The girls loved the pool, you could swim under a wall and go from inside to outside!   They love to swim!

pizza party!

Daddy, Mommy and the girls all snuggled in the big bed and watched Barbie movies and ate popcorn the rest of the evening!!!  What a fun relaxing time!!  Felt like a little vacation in the middle of the work week:)

THEIR FAVORITE PART OF THE HOTEL!!

Kerrigan needs your help!

Hi this is Kerrigan and I've stolen Momma's blog today to ask for a favor! My Aunties and friends need your help!    I'm a Taiwan Xi En baby, that's  the orphanage in Taiwan that helped me find my Mommy and Daddy!   The government of Taiwan has decided that Taiwan Xi En (TXE) can no longer do adoptions until they have a rather large sum of money in an escrow account!    What's the big deal you say?  Well what if they had decided this a year earlier... I wouldn't be here having an amazing life with my Mommy, Daddy, brothers and sisters.... No I would be "stuck" an orphan, all  because the government won't let TXE process adoptions.   Don't get me wrong the love I had at TXE was amazing my Aunties are the best....but there is nothing in the world like having a family to call your own! 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLNAVjVrQw&feature=youtu.be&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIjLNAVjVrQw%26feature%3Dyoutu.be

How can you help?  They have a huge fundraising campaign going on right now called Project 117! 

http://www.project117.org/

They have t shirts, bracelets and my favorite the calendar....because I'm in IT!!!... Oh ya along with my other cute friends from TXE!    They are also collecting change in baby bottles... Everyone has some spare change right?  ;).   If you would like a baby bottle to fill up yourself let my Momma know and she will get it for you!  

Every dollar helps out and gets us closer to the goal and closer to bringing together families like mine;) 

If you can donate $1 or more please go to. 

http://www.taiwanxien.org/  I promise it will make me smile;) 

If you have any questions I would love to answer them...but Mommy says I speak Kerriganese and I'm hard to understand...so maybe ask my Mom or Dad they would love to tell you all about TXE the good they do and why we need to help them bring more families together!!! 

Did you see all my friends in this picture.....these sweet babies are at TXE right now!  They all want what every child wants....a family!  With your help we can raise the funds the government wants and be able to process adoptions again!!!  Then ALL these cuties will have Forever Families, just like Me, Ava and Gabi!  

Feel free to email or Facebook my  Mom and she will help you help these sweet babies! 

bogardaces@yahoo.com