the hardgrave family

Well, we’ve just gotten back from our week at Disney World and to say that the girls had a great time would be the understatement of the year. We promise to put more pictures up after we get a bit more caught up, but I thought that I’d go ahead and share this one. This is the girls meeting “Belle” during her story book time at the Magic Kingdom. Lily’s face really tells the whole story.

Well, the summer is over and the Fall is finally here! Here’s a few picture from the last few months at the Hardgrave home. The one above is Sarah’s recreation of our “last hurah” of the season, a day-trip that we took to the beach for Labor Day. I was pretty impressed.

Lily loved the birds. The birds loved Cheeze nips.

Kathryn has wanted to go to school with Sarah so so badly. To help her come to grips a litte bit with Sarah now being gone for school, we let her dress up in one of Sarah’s uniforms and ride in to school with Sarah and see her classroom. We walked in, the funniest thing happened. All of Sarah’s friends just kinda stopped what they were doing to stare at us. Finally one them broke the silence (that I didn’t quite comprehend) and said “which one is Sarah?”

Every other saturday or so, we have chocoate chip pancake day. As you can see, Lily loves it.

Many (many, many) thanks to Shaohannah’s Hope who helped us financially to bring Lily home. We’re sending in our story for their “yearbook” sometime this week and our friend and webmaster, Jason Wohlford, was kind enough to take a few snapshots of the family for us to send in. Those of you with children of your own know how hard it is to get everyone smilling in one picture. We got this in just three takes – probably a new record for us. Enjoy the smiles! (they don’t come easy . . . often, but not easy)