Saturday, November 19th was National Adoption Day and on that day, Troy was one of 300 children in our state FORMALLY and FOREVERMORE adopted!???? Yeah!!!!!!?? Everything is all finalized and completely done with now.?? He is a BRINKMAN forever.???? There was standing room only in the court room.?? Attendees were:?? Jim, Doni, Tanner, Ty, Tori, […]

Jim started a bit of a tradition with building Gingerbread Houses with kids dating all the way back to when Jamie and Jenna were little.?? Tanner and Tori took it quite seriously but Ty could think of nothing other than eating the house.???? He thought of every way imaginable to phrase questions about the utter […]

Have you ever heard of Torticollis??? Basically it is a twisted neck in which the head is tipped to one side while the chin is turned to the other.?? I think Troy has it.?? Always something isn’t it??? I will have this confirmed (or not) tomorrow when we take him to the Cranial Specialist for […]

(This picture taken a week ago.) If you were following facebook at all yesterday, you know by now that yesterday was one of the worst days of my life.?? I want to purge the whole thing from my heart and soul (and writing this will help with that) but it still feels too big for […]

I must say I am rather proud of myself.?? Somehow I managed to get shots I liked of 14 children plus some siblings in the span of about 40 minutes AND I got group shots to boot.?? I am thinking that the kids were motivated to cooperate so that they could get the heck out […]