Dinner is Served!

What a blessed time we had last night celebrating Grace's birthday on the Cafe Lafayette Dinner Train. Grace had said, "Mom, from you and Dad for my birthday, I want to ride on a train!". Glenn and I went on this very dinner train 12 years ago for our anniversary and we LOVED it! So we reserved a table for 4 (we brought Maddie along as our time with her is winding down for sure!). We decided to sit on the upper level! It's one of the only remaining dinner trains with a glassed in upper level in the country! It was incredible! 

They serve a 5 course meal, and it's truly gourmet! Incredible attention to detail! It's an amazing experience and we totally recommend it! Thank you Martha for coming and staying with all of the other kids!!

Take a peek at our time!

Our two precious girlies! 

So this was my homemade dinner roll! Yup, that's the size for one person! It was hot out of the oven and they had herbed whipped butter! Yummy!

Then we could select our appetizer! This was mine and it was GREAT! 

Next was sorbet to cleanse our palette!

Glenn chose the roast pork ribeye. He said it was awesome! 

I choose the chicken and it was amazing! 

Madelyn chose the salmon and she LOVED it! 

Grace chose the vegetarian plate and it was really yummy!

 We also had dessert! I had key lime pie and the others had cheesecake! It was great!

 We had a wonderful time of fun, food and fellowship! 

Grace wore her souvenir shirt today!

What a blessing our time together was, and everyone here did great, too! Yay! 

This precious little girl...

This precious little girl:  Miss JoyAnna Yanka Deneva Winslow turns 8 today! The picture on the left shows her at her orphanage in April last year. (2014). Although she's only been home since August last year, the changes in her have been a true miracle from the Lord! 

She is such a blessing to us! Energetic and truly joyful, she reminds us to thank God daily for ALL of our blessings!

She is certainly one of them! Happy 8th birthday love!! May this next year bring you amazing strength and growth!  We sure do love you bunches!

Happy 10th Birthday to our Jeremiah! This will be your LAST birthday as an orphan!

We love you so much little Jerry, and we can't wait until you are here in our family, right now you are filling our hearts with love! Have a happy birthday our sweet, high energy, loud, and very cuddly little guy! We love you! BIG hugs!

Your family!!
 

It was a VERY nice day!

It's so hard to believe that our littlest blessing from the Lord turned 2 today! Rosie had some very definite things she wanted for this day:
Donuts for breakfast
McDonald's for lunch
Spaghetti for supper and...
A bear cake for dessert with icecream!

You got it sweetie!


We'll even throw in a few surprises, too! kay??

 So Madelyn surprised Rosie with her very own Veggie Tales pop up tent! Oh my goodness...that was the total HIT of the day! Even room for Daddy to come in and play! Wow!

 Of course Nicole LOVED to play in the tent, too!  Sigh...Nicole..you are getting soooo big! I remember when Maddie wore those strawberry jammies! Wow!

 So...a very "healthy" NOT...breakfast of fruit loops and chocolate covered donuts was served!

 Hmmmmm....what should I do next, thought Rosie!????

 

 Okay...let's open some presents! Yup!! Let's!

 So for lunch we got to go to our local McDonald's and Glenn works 2 minutes from there so he joined us, and so did Brittany and Marlie, and Annie, too! Hey..Aunt Rosie..you and Marlie are both 2 for about a month!! Wow!

 Everyone had a great time!

 Okay...so here is the bear cake! Yup...isn't it cute?? Rosie LOVED it!

 No bath is complete without her new veggie tales water fun thingy! Yeah!!

 Then it was time for cake and pin the tail on the donkey..which guess what??? Rosie won!! Yup!!

We love you so much Miss Rosalinda Marguerite Winslow! You are such a joy in our lives! Praying God's blessing on your up and coming year!