Da Havs

Today we drove up to Foyil, Oklahoma where we visited Totem Pole Park. Our friend Mary loves visiting Route 66 landmarks and we’ve been tagging along. This place was pretty cool because it took this man 9 years to make the largest concrete totem pole in the world. Pretty impressive. Ryan [...]

We went to OKC with our friends the Wolff’s so our boys could see Thomas. He came in from the Island of Sodor especially to see Ryan and A.W.

While there, we got pictures with Thomas

Ryan got to play with the Lego Duplo trains

And the best part, playing on the playground!

We stopped by the zoo for [...]

Ryan is doing great! The second time I dropped him off he cried for about 5 minutes. The 3rd time I dropped him off it was about 3 minutes and he stopped crying before I left the room. The 4th time I dropped him off he cried about 1 minute and said “goodbye, [...]

Ryan started preschool today!!! He woke up at 5:45 am and wouldn’t go back to sleep. He wouldn’t eat breakfast either! All I could think of is, wow, he’s going to have a heck of a day!!
We got to the school and put his back pack and lunch bag away and he immediately started [...]

Tuesday, August 26th was Mike and I’s 14th anniversary. WOW! I can’t believe we’ve been married that long. I remember thinking I was SUCH an old maid at 22. All my friends were married, I literally was the last one! I NEVER thought I would find Mr. Right.
We met at Oklahoma State University. We [...]

We are doing better. Every day gets easier. Knowing we made the right decision helps. We are almost ready to go back on the list. My heart still aches and I still get teary eyed. Today, I asked Jennifer to go with me and together we took back all the clothes I [...]

It is with a very heavy heart that we’ve decided to discontinue the adoption of our precious Evie. We consulted a specialist and it was found that she had more issues than we were prepared to deal with. We know we’ve made the right decision and she will ALWAYS be in our thoughts [...]

4th of July at the Hav’s was a great success. Everyone had a great time and the fireworks were awesome. SO glad the neighbors are so cool about them!! We had about 5 families all around the cul-de-sac setting off fireworks. The kids were yelling OOOH AHHHH! Here is Ryan and his buddy Ian [...]

to decorate baby # 2’s room in greens, with small accents of pink and blue. I think that will satisfy my need to nest and decorate and not be gender specific. I love some of the things I’ve looked at so far. I just have to make a decision and buy it I guess. [...]

We had a wonderful time in Branson with the Vogles. We left T-town about 4:30 Thursday afternoon and met the V’s at the Vinita McDonalds (the worlds Largest McDonalds! covers 4 lanes of traffic!). We decided to hoof it to Joplin and eat there, so we ended up at Olive Garden. It was Yummy [...]