Dosokai Part 2

Our Lil' Empress on our way to Goofy's Kitchen for lunch with the group

Sunday was our Character Lunch at Goofy's Kitchen with all of the families. We had a wonderful time visiting with everyone, and know that next year will be even more fun when Peyton is a little older and can actually interact and play with the kids. We want to thank Eryn and Belinda for all of their hard work in planning for our special weekend together, the goodie bags and sweet t-shirts, Thank You Kelly for the yummy cookies too!, and we look forward to next time!

The Gang with Pluto (Eryn has a better picture, so hopefully I can post that soon!)

Peyton meets Pluto he gave her big puppy kisses (which she is very used to with Yancha Bozu and Wrigley)

Peyton meets Chef Goofy

Dan and Cameron with Chef Goofy

Being Goofy with Dan

Chef Goofy, Kai (front), Dean and Peyton, Cyn and Cameron

Dan and Cameron meeting Gideon the scary cat (although Cameron wasn't scared of him)!

And another one from Saturday afternoon/evening on our way back to the park after napping, it was cold out!

Peyton Sakura back to the park

Dosokai 2009 - Disneyland/California Adventure

First Character meeting - Goofy (at the Disneyland Hotel Lobby)

Peyton Sakura-chan and Goofy

This weekend is the Dosokai for the ATWA Japan adoption group. We are enjoying visiting and meeting many new families. Last night we had dinner together at Naples (Pizza was YUMMY), then today we went to the parks, and tomorrow we will have a Character (aka: "Chatter" in our family) lunch at Goofy's kitchen.

Snoozing on Daddy through dinner at Naples


Heading to Disneyland

Peyton Sakura went on her first rides today, met her first (and only so far) Chatter Goofy, and spent time at Disneyland and California Adventure with friends. Our first ride was Storybook Land with Kelly, Clyde and Kai, 2nd ride was It's a Small World, then we went on Pirates of the Carribean - Peyton was only awake for Storybook Land, then fast asleep for It's a Small World (although I joked with Dean that it looks like she was trying to cover her ears - J/K, I'm sure she will LOVE this ride when she is a couple of years older, doesn't all little kids?).

Kelly and Kai, Mommy and Peyton on Storybook Land

"Covering her ears" on It's a Small World

We are back in the room for a bit, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to blog while Dean and Peyton nap.......who can nap when you are at Disneyland? DEAN!!! Those of you that know him aren't surprised I'm sure!

Snoozing on the way back to the room for a rest

A very special Thank You!

Thank You!

Peyton in her Bounce-A-Bout

Watching Mommy


With our gift card we ordered Peyton a Bounce-A-Bout. While we were gone last week the Bounce-A-Bout arrived and was waiting at our front door, I tried to get Daddy to assemble it last night, but he was tooo tired (understandable since we drove 12 hours home from his parents yesterday), but this morning Daddy assembled the Bounce-A-Bout and I put Princess Peyton in there today and she L-O-V-E-S it! She reached and grabbed at each thing within her reach it was sweet to hear her 'talking' to the baby, and screeching at the other toys. Here she is in her Bounce-A-Bout, Thank You all!!!


"Talking to the bug"

Memorial Day lunch with the Cech's

Our families

We love coming to town and spending time with the Cech and DeMetris families. Today was no exception - it's always nice to catch up with great friends.

Unfortunately Tripp was under the weather and we weren't able to see the DeMetris family this time - but we will look forward to our next visit even more!

Mommy and Peyton looking at the fishies (yes, she was watching either the fishies or bubbles)


Auntie Eryn holding Peyton (Auntie Nancy wanted to see how much Peyton had grown)

We were able to catch a few pictures of the girls together too - and how funny is it that they all matched - Emi was wearing pink, Miya had on lime green and Sakura-chan had on pink and lime (Sakura print)!

Emi, Peyton, and Miya (hard to get a good picture of three wiggle-worms)

Emi was happy to hold Peyton

Happy Memorial Day to all

Just wanted to take a minute and wish everyone a Happy Memorial Day - please remember those that have fought for our freedom!

Just a sidenote - since we are away from home for a couple more days and our connection is crappy at best, I will have a few posts all at once when we return home, but we wanted to again say

Happy Memorial Day from our Family to Yours!

It's Official....

"I can roll over"... says Peyton Sakura

Peyton is rolling over from her tummy to her back. She has done it before, but only maybe one or two times, so I wasn't calling it "official" but today she rolled from her back to her tummy about 6 times, so I am now saying that she is officially rolling over. Such a big girl!

You can never have too much love!

Peyton Sakura has now met all of her Grandparents.

Papa and Peyton

Papa (my Dad) and Grandma Janie came all the way from Indiana to meet their newest grand daughter and I think they kind of liked her, but today we had to say Goodbye. We hope to visit them before Peyton grows up too much though!

Peyton on our way to The Garden

The gang at breakfast

Peyton seems to be growing and learning new things every single minute - she has been laughing at 'strange' things, and today it may make her laugh, but don't count on it again -

she's a tough sell!

This weekend I was talking about something and said that it was yu-uu-uu-cky and she thought that was pretty funny and laughed, so I did it repeatedly and she laughed, but the next day, nope not funny anymore.

She is a truly wonderful baby - we are so fortunate and very blessed that she is our daughter. She definitely knows who her Mommy and Daddy are and normally we are the only ones that can take her when she is fussy (which is only when she is very tired) and get her to sleep....

we think it's sweet though!

A sleeping little angel - she loves this pillow case and reaches and touches the lady bugs.

And look who was sleeping right by the baby....Wrigley!

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush