Annual Photos

My dear friend Tammy is our family photographer each Fall. She has been shooting B since he was 3 months old.

Quick Flash back:

3 months

About 9 months

1.5 years old

3 years old

Okay, on to our new photos!

Thanks Tammy for capturing us as the years go on!

A Glimpse Into Thanksgiving

Mom and Dad hosted a beautiful Thanksgiving for our family.

B brought his Thanksgiving hat he created. This just melts my heart.

Scott smoked a turkey while Mom brined and baked a turkey. 

What a beautiful table and good looking people.

B loves time with his Nana!

With Love, a glimpse into what we are doing

With Love, is growing rapidly and is serving many kids a month. The way we can do this is because of our wonderful volunteers. Here are a few of our bundling nights.

12 ladies came to bundle kids clothing that we pass out to foster parents. All clothes are donated, cleaned, sorted, and then bundled.

Girls Clothes

Boys clothes

Here is the end result of hours of bundling!

Most of the families we support attend Foster Parent Night Out. They drop their kids off for 4 hours of respite care. We hand out items to the parents there. A few families we serve are from a referral system. This is an example of a family who suddenly got 2 kids and needed some staples for them.

We had a HUGE bundling party. I washed 7 loads of laundry, other moms washed 12!

Thank goodness Tammy came over to help me fold the 7 loads to be sorted!

Yep, at this point volunteers come over and sit on our floor, drink wine, and help out! Chelse attends many of our events!

Yep, even the cat gets involved.

Brayden's room = sorting area.

Our bed = sorting head quarters

Girls bundles being made.

Cleaning all the toys we gave away for the holidays!

End result

Lots of hard work

We are so lucky to have 43 volunteers who give their time to help make With Love, happen.

Halloween night......

After trick or treating we packed the kids and went for a very rare weekend away at Mazanita. We even invited the husbands this time!

Look at this beautiful coast weather!

Getting to work....

So sweet...

One of the cutest little girls!

One day we will have to tell them they aren't twins. They absolutely adore each other.

The first time we let the kids sleep together.....

We loved watching them in the monitors. Two of the three kids made it through the night. They went to bed late and got up early, but made great memories. B loved having 'girl talk' with Shayne and Lucy.

Dads in charge!

Kara is always such a good baby.

Tammy created sugar cookies for the kids to decorate. What a great mom.

My favorite was watching Payton suck on the ends of the sprinkles.......

Yes, despite the lack on mom pictures we were there too!!!

Scott rocking Kara. This was something that was his magic touch with Brayden.

Monsters University night

Happy 21st birthday Aunt Katie :)

This was the first time all three couples were able to vacation together. It was such a wonderful get away. We played an amazing amount of cards and laughed a good amount.