THANKSGIVING AT OUR HOME

We had Thanksgiving today at our home since I had to work on Thanksgiving. All of our kids were here including Tim and Krystal (Josh's girlfriend). Its been a long time since everyone has been home at one time and it was wonderful!!
My camera is not working right, it takes blurry pictures for some reason, the only ones that turned out were the ones of Cassidy and Patti and Tim. We all napped after lunch and then Patti and I went shopping at Kohl's. I realized the nice thing about celebrating Thanksgiving after the actual day is that if you run out of something you can run the the store and get it because their open!!
Hope all of our family and friends had a wonderful Thanksgiving too :-)

CASSIDY SWIMMING FOR THE FIRST TIME

Patti and Cassidy went swimming Saturday with Tim's sister Char and her children, Kaylee and Nathan. Cassidy loves the water and she seemed to enjoy swimming with her Mom and Aunt Char. Patti has loved the water since she was little, we always called her our little fish because she never wanted to get out of the lake or pool. And, of course we have pictures!!

NEW PICTURES OF CASSIDY JOI

Here are a couple new pictures of Cassidy, she is just soooo cute!! She smiles and laughs all the time now. Patti has started giving her rice cereal at night and she takes it fairly well.

NEW PICTURE OF NICHOLAS WILTENBURG

Here are some new pictures of Nicholas, he is doing really good.
He looks so cute in these pictures with baby clothes on!!

MORE PICTURES OF MADISON JOY BARTLETT

Here are a couple more pictures of Tom and Marcia's little girl from China, and...she's not bald, Tom said they shave their heads in the summer at the orphanage to keep them cooler. She is going to need some hair if she's going to be a Michigan Girl!!

NEW PARENTS AT LAST!!

My brother Tom and his wife Marcia will be new parents soon!! Here is a copy of their e-mail to us...

Well, the day we've been waiting for has finally come!
At noon today we received a call from our adoption agency...
and we finally have been matched with our daughter-
we finally know who she is.
Her Chinese name is Wan Chun E, soon to be Madison Joy Bartlett.
She was born July 31, 2005.
We will be traveling to China sometime in the next 5 to 8 weeks.
More details will follow. Attached is her picture.
Love,
Tom, Marcia and Joel Bartlett

WELCOME NICHOLAS!!!

Our nephew Kevin Wiltenburg and his wife Sue are proud first time grandparents!!! Their daughter Katie gave birth to Nicholas Walker Wiltenburg on October 31st at 3:52am. Nicholas was early (Katie was 31 weeks, 6 days pregnant), he was delivered by emergency C-section and weighed in at 4#10oz. He was in the intensive care unit but has now been moved to the intermediate care. He is just too cute and when he has gained enough weight he will be able to go home. Here are some pictures of Nicholas...

MORE HALLOWEEN PICTURES

More Halloween pictures...Cassidy of course, one of the wonderful chocolate cake Patti made and bought over and one of the golf pumpkin.

Our niece and nephew's daughter Katie just gave birth to their first grandchild on Halloween. He was 8 weeks early and is in the Neo-Natal unit at Spectrum Hospital. He is doing fine and is perfectly normal, he just is tiny so they are going to keep him until he gets a little bigger. I will post of a picture of him soon, his name is Nicholas and he is just adorable!!

HALLOWEEN FUN

Patti, Tim and Cassidy came over for pizza on Halloween. We had a ton of trick or treaters this year...big and little ones. Tim had never been trick or treating so we watched Cassidy so they could go out for a while. Robby and I finally carved his pumpkin with the golf design, it turned our really cool!! I have a lot of pictures but my computer is giving me trouble with uploading them. I will keep trying. One of the pictures is our son Robby holding Cassidy.