Christmas Joy

It has been so much fun watching the kids get excited for Christmas. Everywhere we go Nellie get so excited to see all the Christmas decorations. We went to Hobby Lobby yesterday and she was so excited while walking around the store. She pointed out every Christmas tree and Santa decoration that she could find. Wesley is trying to figure out how Santa will get into our house, since we have a gas fire place. We told him that Santa has a special key and this is how he gets into our house. He then wanted to know if he would hear Santa come into the house at night.

Yesterday we also worked on putting up our Christmas lights and Wesley told Chad that if he didn't want me to help him put up the lights he could ask him and he would do it. While Chad and I were working on the lights Nellie stood by and watched us very closely. They were both so excited when we turned the lights on and they could see what we had done. I can't wait until they get to help us put up the Christmas tree, this will be a wonderful time. We are looking forward to this years Christmas with the kids, they are so excited for the holiday to get here.

It is official

Well it is official, the adoption was finalized today! We would like to welcome Wesley Tucker Reed and Nellie Christine Reed to our family. Thank you to all of our family and friends who came to court with us this morning to celebrate the special day. Wesley is so excited it is too cute. He keeps telling us that he loves us more then we know. He was telling Chad and I tonight at dinner that even we are the BEST mommy and daddy that he could ever ask for. He is so excited to join the new family. Thank you again to everyone for your support during the last six months. I will post some pictures later that we taken today.

Here are some pictures of the kids on Halloween. They went trick or treating around every block in the neighborhood.

Rakel, Wesley, and Nellie at a family wedding in

November!

Daddy and Nellie hanging out at the wedding too!

Welcome

I want to welcome all of you to the Reed Family blog. Chad and I will be using this to keep our family and friends up dated on what is going on with our family. In one week our adoption of Wesley and Nellie will be final. It was six months on November 3rd that they had come to live with us. Our lives have changed completely since this time. We treasure each day that we have with them and are amazed at how far the kids have come since then. Wesley is so excited to become a Reed just like his mommy and daddy.