Face To Face

We have known Sarah and her family for several years now through the internet. We met through an online support group for families with children who have special needs. On Wednesday we were blessed to finally be able to meet face to face. We have watched each others kids grow through pictures but it was truly amazing to see those kids in person.
Sarah and Jerry have 3 beautiful and extra special kids.

On Wednesday afternoon we all headed to the Jelly Belly Factory to take the tour and of course sample lots of yummy jelly beans.
Abby keeping Drew entertained
Junior thinks RV travel is the way to go
Too cool to smile
Abby and the little diva Emmie

Abby and Drew

Buddies

Relaxing back at our house
Yesterday we met up with several other families who have extra special children and I will post about that later today.

Teaser

We had a fabulous day with the Garcia family who are visiting from Michigan. It is late so I am off to bed but wanted to share a few pictures. A teaser for the many, many to come.

Junior with his amazing buddies at the Jelly Belly Factory(aren't they just so sweet)

We are just toooooo cool

Junior and I

Abby and Drew playing on the ipad(Abby kept telling me "he is just soooo cute, he reminds me of Caleb, he is so sweet.")
Junior is loving RV travel.

Tomorrow we are off to Sac for a very special get together.

Craft Time

I meant to get this post up yesterday but things got busy. Junior hasn't been sleeping much so though he will do great in the morning he is exhausted by the late afternoon and so tired that he can't sleep. Last night was better so hopefully today will be fantastic. We are planning on visiting the Jelly Belly Factory with some special friends. Junior is very exciting and I am sure I will have many pictures to share in the coming days.

Now for some pictures from Monday. Junior painted several fish for his camping unit in school and also had fun hanging out with Abby.
Making Tie dye fish(to get step by step directions for Junior's fish visit the adaptions blog )
Mr. Silly loves to close his eyes on purpose when I am trying to get a picture
Painting with worms(don't worry they are rubber worms/grubs)
Bubble fish

Outside picking tomatoes
Best Friends
A quick nap before our next activity
Getting a little help from Abby to paint his camp fire
Then back inside for some computer time. Abby is giving Junior a lesson in Face Book.

This is what happens in the afternoon if a certain little boy doesn't sleep. Such a sad face.
He was one very sad guy and "had" to call aa-ah. Of course grandma's always make it better. I put Junior on the phone with her and he got quiet and was listening. All of a sudden he closed his eyes like he had gone to sleep. I took the phone and asked my mom what she told him because he had just gone to sleep. She said she told him that if he didn't sleep more he was going to get sick so he needed to close his eyes right now and take a rest.

Yesterday, working hard at therapy and so happy to be back on the treadmill

Smiles

Busy fun day and I am off to bed. Here are a few pictures and I will share more tomorrow.
He is painting a fish for our camping unit, can you figure out what is in his hand that he is using to paint his fish?
Be sure to check out the Adaptions blog where I am sharing our camping unit activities. I will be putting up a few new posts over there in the next day or two.