Today is Gail's 2nd birthday. We started out the day attending the Annual AIM BBQ. The adoption agency we used were having their annual BBQ and we got to see some faces that we haven't seen in a while. It is always so exciting to see all the families that have been touched through adoption. You can just feel love all over the room. The people that work at the agency are so sweet and love on everyone that walks in the door. We saw our friends, Darin and Cherie, there with their adopted son, Max. We sat with them while having lunch. After we got through eating, we went out to the petting zoo to look at the animals. Gail was in and out of the gate, and Carter didn't want anything to do with them. We couldn't get him to pet one for anything. Carter saw some other kids with balloons and didn't stop talking about them until we got one for him. We went back inside and got him and Gail a balloon, then went over and talked to Jan (the director of the agency) for a minute. The kids seemed bored and looked like they wanted to go home, so we did. We got home and got the kids settled. Carter stayed in his room and played. We put Gail down for her nap but she never went to sleep. She nodded off for a brief moment in the car, and apparently, that was all she needed. We let them rest a while. I went out after we got them settled and took care of Gail's birthday cake, etc. Frank went out after I got back to deal with his truck. He got back home pretty late, and we just had a quick dinner. After dinner, we got the table set up for Gail's birthday cake. We sung "happy birthday" to her and gave her some cake and ice cream. We didn't have anything big for her because we just didn't feel she was ready for it. We put off her opening her present because she would have wanted to play with it and it was late. We got the kids ready for bed. Here are some pictures.

(You can view more pictures in the Family Photos/June 2008 album)