Family goes to concert!

It is just crazy to me sometimes when I look at pictures of my sweet family, that only a couple of years ago, I didn't even see a glimmer of this!
To be honest with you, I was so caught up in Jake's illness, that I had totally put my own hopes of a family on hold. When I was contacted by Ellie's birthmom, I had JUST begun looking at adoption agencies and was actually going on a site I had found looking at precious babies from Guatemala. WHO KNEW?!?!

And here we are... going to a concert together, and realizing that all dressed up, we had better be thinking ahead to Christmas card pics!
YO DAD! Eyes on the camera! This one could have been IT! All adults know you just keeeeeep on smiling. The fools behind the camera are the ones doing the monkey faces and mooing like a cow, et al, to get the girls to smile. It is our responsibility to just look at the camera and keep that smile plastered on your face!
I just love my little family. I am sure that you are all like, "duh. Who doesn't?" and I can appreciate that. But as I post these pictures and just take the time to look at them, I kinda bubble over with JOY at my tribe!
Hey you two bowheads.
I try to see similarities, and every blue moon, maybe I see one. But in these pics, NOPE. I don't see it. Both are beautiful, but in totally different ways! Brown hair/ blue eyes. Blond hair/ brown eyes. Did you know that these are both recessive traits? And speaking of... have I mentioned that Ellie's birthmom told me recently she is considering a future in medicine and is particularly interested in genetics? She should find this particularly interesting. The rest of you.. not so much, huh?

Uncle Chris was at the concert. And speaking of concert... let me tell you about it. PawPaw Raborn was instrumental in getting Ray Price and a couple of other bands to Monroe to play a concert with all profits to go to the JOR Foundation. The family/ JOR team served at the door and wherever help was needed.
This is typically not a family deal. It is much more of an adult deal! But. I had no sitter! I was in a bind. And I KNEW I had to be there because anything that has JOR on it, needs ME at it!

In case you don't know. This is Ray Price.
And this is the strings part of the Cherokee Cowboys band. I particularly loved this part of the music. He had a big band with him, bigger than I expected!
I learned that he is also called "the voice". And I can see why. Even at his late age, he has a smooth and mellow voice! It was kinda like an old time country singing. It was fun.
Fun? Funny? SHE thinks so!
This is how Ellie rode home!
When we caught her with her finger up her nose and told her that was "Gross", she decided TWO fingers up her nose would be double gross and get us double upset! Sooooo.....
She also refuses to keep that upper buckle locked. I DREAD the day she learns how to undo the bottom snap. It is a WAR to keep her in her seat!

Enjoyed the night! Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys will go down as my girls' first official concert!

Peace out. Mo