peek a boo.

Lola and Stella have gotten SO big! The average maltipoo weights 5-12 lbs. Our girls are anything but average! We would venture to guess that Lola weighs nearly 14 lbs and Stella is close to a whopping 17lbs and they're only six months!

I took the girls on a walk yesterday and we met an adorable black and white Shitzu-poodle mix. She was fully grown at 5 lbs!!!

I guess we could say there's just more of our babies to love :) And love them we do! Here are a few recent shots of the girls playing peek-a-boo on the deck.

do you think they can see us?

the precious babies

lola

Stella

so cute.

lions and tigers and bears...

OH it's MY new job!

As of tomorrow morning I will be employed with the Great Plains Zoo! What will I be doing you ask... not feeding the monkeys! Maybe after a few weeks I'll get promoted to that :)

I will be managing the Zoo's database and maintaining their donor files! Exciting, I know... what's even more exciting is it's an 8am-5pm, M-F job! Just what I've been praying for! Yay!

New baby giraffe!

how i feel today

(image found on bakerella.blogspot.com)

Take Two Tuesday!

I hope I did this right, Trish! Let me know! :)

lisa. matt. margarita.

lisa. mmm. margarita.

case of the Mondays

why is it so difficult some days to muster up the motivation to even get dressed?

I'd like to think I've been productive today. I woke up. I had coffee. I walked the dogs.

Sisters.

Stacy Lynn Chesnutt was born on November 14 in Bogota, Colombia. She's my big sister and I have a hard time putting in to words how much I love her. The thought of her smile brings tears to my eyes. You see, she's the one person in this world that has been with me forever. She's the only one that experienced the orphanage, slept with me when I was lonely, played with me long before we had a family of our own and has known me longer than anyone else still in my life has.

One of our first photos - Bogota, Colombia

I praise God for my parents and the choice they made when they adopted us together. It's rare that a family adopts two children at the same time, let alone sisters!

Chesnutt family portrait

My sister and I celebrated 22 years of adoption on April 1st. It's unbelievable how far we've come. To think of what our lives would have been like had we not been chosen for adoption is a nearly an impossible thought. I rejoice in knowing my whole life is in God's hands and that he kept me and my big sister together :)

All grown up!

Stacy recently got engaged! I am thrilled to help her plan the wedding and even more thrilled she found the one she loves :)

Take time today to thank God for the gift of family. I especially want to praise God for the little ones that have been added to my friend's families... in no particular order; Lucy, Eli, Paisley, Joel, Daniel, Maizie, Eva, Lola, Stella and all the others I may have forgotten :)

getting better!

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for my mom.

I talked to her today and she reported the spots in her eye getting less noticeable!! She thinks they've lightened and is optimistic they could go away entirely!!!! She will visit her eye surgeon again tomorrow. I'll post an update once I know more.