The Chosen Hearts

A Gift From Uncle Rick and Aunt Kelly Christmas Day New Bike New Bed Christmas Eve Dexter at top of Arch Dada and Dexter Having FUN Mama and Dexter riding tram to top of Arch Train Ride Merry Christmas to everyone. This was our first Christmas together as a family. Dexter has been with us now for 10 months but really it seems like forever. Dexter had asked Santa for a big boy bike and bed. Santa pulled through on his requests. We have Christmas Eve with The Kirkland's and tonight then with The Mitchell's. It has been a wonderful time seeing him grow the last ten months. He was really into the present opening. Since our last post, we went on a long weekend trip to St. Louis. We rode the train and stayed downtown. Dexter loved riding the train. At the hotel he got to swim. He was a little unsure at first but by Sunday morning he was a little dare devil. We went up in the Arch, went shopping, took a carriage ride and saw a lot of Christmas lights. The past two weeks ...

Fruit Punch Face Ferry taken from HIGH up on Cliff of park Looking at Ohio River from inside Cave in Rock Ohio River Southern Illinois Dexter and Mama Riding the Trails Dada and Dexter Horse at the Circus Spaghetti Face Happy late Thanksgiving to all. We traveled to Southern Illinois to stay at a families cabin. This was our first family vacation since returning from Ukraine back in February. We rode several miles of trails on the four wheelers through the Shawnee National Forrest. We got to see wild turkey but never saw any deer except for on the side of the rode. We drove to Cave in Rock, Illinois where you can take a ferry across the Ohio River to Kentucky. Dexter really liked when we got out of the car while going across the river. We also, went to the state park and went inside the cave. It was an amazing thing to see. The weather was in the 40-50 degree range our whole trip so of course we had to returned home tonight to about three inches of snow on the ground with more to happe...