Parker **Vote for Most Beautiful Baby Contest**

Hi, fellow bloggers. I haven't written to my blog in a long time. We have since had our 4th and final children. Another boy....Which we love dearly!!!!

Our local station www.fox8.com is having a contest and our son is on it. Please vote on at the below link.

Thanks and many blessings to all of you!!!

Happy Holidays from The LeMasters

Zack (9), Rylan (3), and Craigy (11)

Wishing everyone the best for the holidays and throughout the year.

What Fun We Had This Summer

Zack, Cody, Rylan, Craigy, and Tanner
We had a great summer. It really flew by so quickly. My sister, Kim, and I started our summer off by taking my 3 boys and her boys to Cedar Point Amusement Park. He older son drove up separately.

July Update

June 28th through July 4th
Craig and his cousin Cody went to Camp Carl's extreme camp. They had a terrific time canoeing, swimming, horseback riding, etc. Then on Wednesday Mom and Dad sent Craigy a letter addressed in RED, which gets them automatically thrown in the pool with clothes and all!!! This was Craig and Cody's 2nd year! It was a rough week without my Craigy.

June 30th through July 3rd
Zack started camp on Monday with his cousin, but only made it to 1 day at camp. Zack was swinging on a rope off of one of their trees when the rope broke and he hit his head on a rock and split his head open. I went to pick up Zack that night from camp and found out that he had a head injury that afternoon. I'm actually a pretty calm person, but could not understand why I was not notified that he was injured until pickup time that night especially with it being a head injury. I took him to the Dr for stitches and they said he should of had staples, but it had been too long since the incident. Poor Zack could't attend camp cause he wasn't allowed to get it dirty or wet, so we waited a couple weeks when it finally healed and sent him to splash camp. He and his cousin, Tanner had a blast and made it all week without any injuries (yea!!!)





July 2nd


Happy Birthday Cody!




July 4th


We celebrated at our house with some fireworks and a sat around a nice and cozy fire. The kids really enjoyed it.






July 19th
Today we spent the day at my sisters house for my nephews graduation party from High School. Nick is continuing his education at Kent State University. Congratulations, Nick...We're so proud of you!



July 26th
Today we had our employee/customer appreciation party at our house. We all had such wonderful time. We had a pig roast, and lots and lots of food, swimming, car show, inflatable games, music, and more. We really lucked out with the weather since it was suppose to rain, but it held off until the evening hours.

July 27th


Wow, 20 long months and still waiting. Being optimistic that things will change after the olympics. Let's bring our little girls home!

Logged in for 19 months

We've been officially logged in nineteen months with China today. Let's hope we can start counting down in months.

May and June Update

I'm sure alot of my fellow yahoo buddies and friends are wondering where in the world I've been lately. I've had an incredible amount of things going on with us this past couple of months, so I'll try to update you as best as possible.

May 3rd
Celebrated my 40th birthday
May 11th
Celebrated my mother's birthday
Celebrated Mother's Day and kids and Daddy took me out to my favorite Japanese Hibachi restaurant. Very Nice.

Agency Changes
Things have been a little crazy since learning that are local branch has made some drastic changes not to mention that we had to change our home study agency in the midst of updating my paperwork.

I'm glad to say that we are done updating all our paperwork and our just awaiting our HS SW to make her visit out to us before our HS expires on August 4, 2008. We are suppose to have our appointment with her on July 8th. I was getting a little nervous that we were going to get this done in time, but we kept everything current and received all our paperwork back in time, now just waiting on our appt. with her.

June 6th was the boys last day of school. Craigy's last year at the elementary school. Happy for him to be moving on, but bitter sweet as he moves onward to the middle school in September.

June 17th
Our baby Rylan (ok, toddler) celebrated is 3rd birthday.
Celebrated Father's Day with Craig. He finally finished he's cobra and put it in the Summit Racing Car Show.

We've seen a couple of movies lately:

Iron Man - LOVED IT
Kung Fu Panda - Enjoyed it
WALL E - Slowing moving in being, but still a pretty good movie too!

I have to be honest I haven't been checking anyone's blogs as much as I've tried I've let myself get into a slump with the slow down of referrals and the with paperwork renewal process, but I vowed to let this serve as a positive step as we've completed another milestone by entering the renewal portion of this wait.

Oh, I forgot to mention that my computer crashed, but it's up and working now, so I'm back again to blogger world.

I promise I'll keep up a little better on my blogging.

MOM

Yesterday my mom and I spent the entire day shopping. I couldn't decide what to do for her upcoming birthday and Mother's Day, so I decided to treat her to a day of shopping. Anyone that knows my mom knows that if I would of given her money or a gift card she would of turned around and spent it on someone else. We had so much fun and little Rylan ran with us all day. He was such a little trooper and is such a good little guy that it made the day even more special. My mom is the most loving and caring person I know. She's always the first to offer a hand, the first to offer a hug and kind words, the first to offer encouragement, the first to say how special someone is, the first person that will be there if you need anything in a drop of a hat. She has always put EVERYONE ELSE'S feelings and needs first and never once asked or expected what's in it for her. She is truly a blessing and I cherish and love her dearly. Sometimes, we as kids get caught up in the day to day busy things in life and forget how important it is to let our loved ones know that we really do appreciate all that they do. Sometimes, I think I try to squeeze so many things into my day that I get anxious to get home to finish the rest of th errands that I forget about the most important people in my life.

Mom, here's a poem that I found that made me think of you. I love you.




A Precious Mother

Mom You've given me so much,
Love from your heart and the warmth of your touch.
The gift of life and you're a friend to me.
We have a very Special Bond which only comes from God...
I'm sure you agree.

As a child I would say Mommy I Love You,
Now you're my Mother so dear
I love you even more with each and every new year.

If I could had chosen, I would have picked no other.
Than for you ... to be my lifelong friend and Precious Mother.

- Author Unknown.

Dandelion Day

Today was a beautiful, sunny, and enjoyable play day. Zack and Rylan picked me and Grandma some awesome looking bright yellow dandelions. The weather today was about 77 degrees with a slight breeze. We are so... ready for summer.

Say CHEESEburger

Rylan went to my mom's this week since daycare was closed, so before heading off to Grandma's we had to have all his essentials. Baseball cap, CARS backpack, CARS lunchbox, sunglasses matching jacket and shorts. He's very picky before he leaves in the morning. I decided to take a quick snapshot and as I turned the camera sideways to get more of a portrait view he thought he needed to turn his head the same direction as the camera. It was too cute for words and you know picture is worth the thousands words.

WE'RE OUT OF THE REVIEW ROOM

CCAA Document Processing - updated on 4/24/08

The CCAA has finished the review of the adoption application documents
registered with our office before December 31, 2006.

The CCAA has finished the placement of children for the families whose
adoption application documents were registered with our office before
January 09, 2006.

WE'VE MADE IT OUT OF THE REVIEW ROOM and we move into the matching room where our paperwork will sit there for probably a couple more years. Atleast now we know that we've passed review and have moved into Department 2, aka the matching room.

Congratulations to my fellow November 2006 Log In Date people and all December 2006 LID's.