Happy Birthday Joshua!!

No - not my Joshua - Brian and Luciana Kopp from Georgia, flew in to NJ this past weekend, so that they could celebrate their son's, Joshua Brian (we call him BABY Joshua), first birthday with the family. He is so cute and we had so much fun spending the day with our family!!

He had a Cowboy party...

 

We spent the day playing with all the cousins, and watching Joshua and Elli play

(Luciana took a lot of pictures and has promised to email them to me, so stay tuned to see how cute they were together!!!)

Brian told us that Joshua had never had any "Sweets" before his first birthday, so cake was a whole new experience for Joshua;)... 

Joshua played so hard and had so much fun that he was ready to go to bed when we left...

As soon as I get more pics I will post them - Luciana got a group shot of all the kids in their "Cowboy" hats and I am sure it is going to be so cute...

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UPDATE ON THE GIVEAWAY!!

If you haven't visited Patti's blog to get the updates for the giveaway, I will give them to you here...

Olga's and Kareen's goals have been met!! Olga's total is at $13,154.00 and Kareen's total is at $7,450.00 AND both girls have permanent "Forever Families" that are in the process of bringing them home!!!  ALSO - Today it was announced that there is good news for Peter in the wings - so keep checking - AND he is officially 1/2 way to his goal of a full adoption grant of $20,000.00.  Amazing!!  Is anyone as amazed as I am at how generous people can be, and how Awesome God is in His orchestration of circumstances...I will not be one who "chalks" it off to coincidence...