A Love Like No Other: Ticonderoga Farms

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Ticonderoga Farms

We LOVE fall and all of the Fall Festivals we have around here. Seriously we could probably go to a festival both days of every weekend for a good 6 weeks and even still might not make it to all of them! This particular festival was much, much different than the one we usually go to at Cox Farms. This one is much smaller, more of a "farm" feel than a festival feel, but we LOVED it. It was quite cold this morning, which meant we were basically the only people there for a good hour or more. We met our friends, Cassie, Paul and David there and loved having the run of the place to ourselves!! I'm pretty sure we'll make this an annual event now too!! There are LOTS of pics below to enjoy!

Emily in the tunnel

David looking handsome!

My "little boy" isn't looking so little anymore

OMG, this slide was SO fast!!! Brady LOVED it!!! He probably went down it close to a dozen times!!

playing on the tires

Emily and David inspecting the mulch!

on the tractor ride to get our pumpkins

The perfect pumpkin for the perfect pumpkin!!

This doesn't happen too often

both boys loved feeding the chickens!

Emily being silly

swinging on a vine

time to make s'mores!

Brady liked them!! :-)

a good old fashioned teeter totter!

more slides!!

Emily would giggle the whole way down!!

Paul and David

one tired little girl!

5 comments:

michelle said...: You are so lucky! We only have 2 farms open to us on selected weekends in October. My daughter would have loved going down those slides. They said she was too little to ride even with me holding her.; November 10, 2010 at 10:51 PM
Joanna B said...: I love Brady's face going down the slide. Pure joy!; November 12, 2010 at 5:35 AM
Jennifer said...: What a touch story and lovely family you have -- you must be so proud!; November 21, 2010 at 3:56 PM
Dylana Suarez said...: So cute! Lovely blog here!

xoxo,

colormenana.blogspot.com; December 14, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Neolon Light said...: nice posting keep blogging

http://www.neolonlight.com/upload/Down-Light-168126129.aspx?CatVal=4; December 30, 2010 at 9:40 PM

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1/11/07~Signed on with CAI for Taiwan B Program (either gender)

1/17/07~Approved to adopt from TWCA

1/29/07~Fed Ex'd 1600A to USCIS

2/1/07~First Homestudy appointment

2/12/07~Second Homestudy appointment

3/2/07~Received fingerprint appointment today for 4/11/07

3/12/07~Received FBI and DCF background clearance

3/28/07~Received completed homestudy

4/11/07~Fingerprinted

4/19/07~REFERRAL of baby boy, Lin, Chen-Yu (born 2/5/07)

4/23/07~Accepted referral

5/7/07~Fed Ex'd docs to TECO Miami

5/8/07~Received I-171H

5/14/07~Received first set of update photo's and info today; Received docs back from TECO; took docs to CAI for translation

6/1/07~Dossier sent to Taiwan

6/15/07~Received 2nd set of update photos

6/25/07~Notified of Court Hearing on Aug. 6th

7/6/07~Received 3rd set of update photos

8/6/07~COURT HEARING!

8/14/07~Received 4th set of update photos

8/22/07~FIRST RULING

9/9/07~7th Wedding Anniversary/leave for 7 day cruise

9/15/07~FINAL RULING

9/28/07~Leave for Taiwan

10/1/07~GOTCHA DAY!!!

10/6/07~Arrive back to Tampa as family of 3!!!

2/14/08~Move to Clifton VA.

4/15/08~Emailed Taiwan B pre-approval form to CAI for Baby # 2 (either gender)!!

4/17/08~Contract and $$$ sent to CAI

4/29/08~Received pre-approval from TWCA

7/23/08~Contacted local homestudy agency

7/28/08~Applied to homestudy agency

8/4/08~CAI filed Bankruptcy and closed....almost threw up!!

9/4/08~First conference call with new agency, Gladney Center for Adoptions, who absorbed the CAI Taiwan program

9/12/08~Homestudy Update visit with social worker at our house

9/18/08~Second conference call with Gladney

10/8/08~County fingerprints at police station

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1/9/09~Fed Ex'd 1600A to USCIS

1/22/09~Received fingerprint appointment for 2/17/09

2/17/09~Fingerprinted

3/25/09~Received I-171H

5/8/09~Received referral of baby boy with medical condition

5/11/09~Declined referral because we did not feel comfortable with the medical condition

6/4/09~REFERRAL of baby GIRL born 4/30/09

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6/8/09~Alan leaves for Norway for the week.. BAD TIMING!

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10/4/09~First Ruling!!

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