It's been a LOOOONNNGGG time since my last post. But no one is reading anyway, right? Holidays are still a bit hard. I miss my sweet Jacob. And we still have no word on Aunika. And Kasia has found another family. I don't even know whether to post a happy face or a sad face about that. I am so glad she has a committed, forever family. I'm just sad it isn't us. We have started pestering Serbia again to PLEASE let us bring home 2. Jasmina says not to get my hopes up. Too late.

On another note- one night last week right after bath time, Landon said "mom, I wanna be white". I asked him what he meant. He said he wanted his color to be white. I asked him why? He said because he wanted to be Superman. I assured him that it was OK to be a brown superman. Then we talked a little about colors. and Super Heroes. I told him we all (even super heroes) come in different colors. I happened to remember in the past few years, Green Lantern has been a brown man. So I showed him lots of pictures of Green Lantern (and guess what we asked Santa to bring this year?) and told him God made us just the color he wants us to be. He is such a beautiful boy. I don't ever want him to wish he was a different color. I don't want to start any sort of discrimination here, but I even told him White was boring, and that God upgraded him to such a nice color of brown. He's 5. we tell him what he'll understand. I attached a picture of him on Thanksgiving with Azlynn. In the summer, it is a toss-up for who's browner.

Also, we got new pictures of Aunika. THEY CHOPPED OFF ALL HER HAIR!! I don't know why. She is still adorable, but I have literally had dreams of running my hands through all her beautiful long hair. Oh, well. It will eventually grow back. Jasmina also told me she is smiling all the time now. I wish they'd send me a picture of that! I am glad she is smiling, and I said it was because she knows her family is coming for her soon!.

And now for the Thanksgiving update. Colton T. came down from NAU (in Flagstaff) for Thanksgiving. He got a ride with his roommate. It was so fun havin him here. He is such a little nut. and a very sweet boy. We also had him for his 19th birthday. Yay! He is studying hard, and is a smart boy. It was fun to have him and Colton R. together. Thanksgiving was nice. the food was Deee-lish! We went over to Darin and Misty's. Next year, our new house will be big enough to host. I have some pictures of our after dinner walk. I made everyone come. It was a lovely walk, a beautiful day.

AAAANNNNDDDD........

Colton R. got his mission call a few days ago. He is going to.... Drumroll please.....

Bahia Blanca, Argentina! A different mission than Scott served in, But still really cool to have him going to Argentina. He doesn't leave until March.

So I think that about catches things up. Time to go decorate the tree with the kiddos. Landon's very favorite activity!