For the twins’ 2nd birthday, our big present to them was a room update. Here are some ‘before’ pictures:
When it was a nursery, we had their two cribs under the “J” and “B” and the changing table under the framed puzzle on the wall. That was the only furniture in the room. When They were around 18 months, we moved them out of their cribs because we knew we would start fostering soon and we didn’t want to have to buy a 3rd crib.
The twins turned two! On their birthday, we took them out to Tom + Chee for lunch and gave them their first taste of ice cream at Andy’s. We had the place to ourselves and they immediately put all that sugar to good use running around and yelling. First ice cream was a success!
This post is back-dated for March 2019 – I’m perpetually behind on blogging!
We had a great Spring Break this year. I tried to get the twins out of the house as much as possible, so we went out a couple times with friends. They had a blast at the zoo & at the Martin Park Nature Conservancy. We also had the youth come over to play games, and the boys loved getting to hang out with them. Here are a few snapshots from the week:
We stayed in town this Christmas. We weren’t originally planning to, but we had a foster placement so we adjusted our plans. It was definitely the strangest and hardest Christmas we’ve gone through, but we grew so much as a family and all of our friends and family served us and our foster little so well. We felt incredibly blessed, God provided for us in ways that we never could have imagined. It was a crazy start to our foster journey, but we wouldn’t change a thing.
The boys had a lot of fun with the Christmas tree this year, and they loved their presents. The big thing we got them was a hockey set, and they play with it all the time. I also baked gingerbread cookies for the first time, and they turned out really well.
Here are some pictures of our family of 5 during the Christmas season.
We had a great time this past Thanksgiving in Fayetteville with my family and in the Woods with Steve’s family.
This past September, my sister & I took a backpacking trip on the Ozark Highlands Trail. We brought my dog Nike along as our guard dog, along with a can of bear spray. The trail is quite long, so we just hiked the first bit of it. Our original plan was to hike about 12 miles a day, covering 36 miles in total.
When our first foster placement left our home earlier this month, we decided to take a short break from fostering. We’ve been snuggling with our boys, soaking up this time with just them, and enjoying an easy life for a while.
I started a brand new bujo last January, which is a fantastic feeling. So much potential!
I wrote this post in December, a week before our home was opened & we accepted our first foster care placement.
We (the Kieklaks) are at the tail end of the foster care certification process. We were supposed to have our home open by November 1st, but there was some forgotten paperwork that surfaced after we signed our contract. Now, after the 1st of December, we’ve gotten all the paperwork (actually all of it this time) sent in to DHS and we’re just waiting for approval. Our foster care agency will want us to take another respite care placement before taking a (more) permanent placement.
This post, along with the next several that I’m posting, is back-dated to better reflect the order of events. I’ve been doing a lot of catching up on blogging lately, so I’ll be posting a lot in a short span to help catch you guys up on the last year or so. Sorry if your inbox gets spammed – it’s just for today!
We had these pictures taken right after the boys turned one. Mitzi (or Mimi as the boys know her) did a great job capturing their personalities. We love looking back on these and remembering how little they were.
