1. Invite a young college student over for dinner
2. Discover a mutual love for Dutch Blitz
(A favorite conversation went like this)
Christina: We'll have to teach Nathan how to play Dutch Blitz.
Nathan: (insert cocky tone) TEACH ME (extra emphasis) how to play Dutch Blitz?
Apparently he already knew how to play and we didn't have to teach him. Sweet!
3. Make the adoption official
(another favorite conversation)
Lani - Then let's adopt Nathan
Amy - We didn't adopt him, he adopted us.
4. Go to his hockey games.
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5. After his hockey game, play six games of volleyball, eat too much raw cookie dough, and play Dutch Blitz, then have your youngest girls take advantage of the tired guy's good nature.
Start with a brown winter hat
Add sunglasses
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Add American flag because he's Canadian |
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Switch hats and add Mom's reading glasses |
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Add gloves and math problem since he hates math |
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Top it off with rose, necklaces, and stuffed animal |
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6. Take his picture for the church directory
7. Make his hair look like Justin Bieber's
8. Plop babies on his lap
9. Share meals, Bible studies, prayer requests, jokes, You Tube videos, Facebook insults. Watch movies. Play lots of games. Stuff with cookies.
10. Take him on Book Across the Bay with us and rename him "Eric."
11. After he yanked Christina's chain by telling her that Canadians club baby seals as a rite of passage. (Please know he was just kidding), post baby seal pictures on his Facebook wall.
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Pretending to be a baby seal
Erica pretends to club him
Erica drags the seal home
12. Discover you know mutual friends. His Canadian father went to college many moons ago in Southern California with people we met when we lived in Colorado. What a small world.
13. Let him fight back
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We sincerely hope that's a different carrot
than the one he stuck up Christina's nose.
It's been a fun year.
Thanks so much for adopting us.
We'll miss you.
We'll miss you.
Haha! Lucky that such an entertaining person adopted you! Looks like you all had some great times!
ReplyDeleteHee hee... Love it!
ReplyDeleteHaha, thanks for sharing!!!!
ReplyDeleteFun fun times....
ReplyDeleteAww, it's bittersweet that you have to say goodbye. I enjoyed the funny pictures and your family's sick sense of humor!
ReplyDeleteI feel as if I need to learn this Dutch Blitz game this summer. :P
ReplyDeleteWhat great memories! I was adopted by a family I babysat for while in college. We're still in touch and although the kids are grown, they're still family to me.
ReplyDeleteI so admire you, Angie. Your family seems so full of love and joy. I want to create that kind of environment for my boys. Thanks for sharing so much of your life! It inspires me.