Meeting Joey

We are home now from our very long and very fun visit with Joey. I thought I would let you know what we did and how it went. Overall I give the visit a 9 out of 10. We got in at noon on Saturday. We picked up Joey and went to lunch and did some shopping. We went to lunch and came to our amazing hotel room. Joey and I went swimming. We have a waterproof video camera so we had some fun playing with that in the pool. When I get the videos uploaded online I will send you the links. They are pretty entertaining. Phil and Joey spent the rest of the first night building a cool model car. You should all ask him to see it since he was super excited with it. We were pretty worn out the first night from the long drive so we all crashed out early.

On Sunday we got up early and ate a yummy breakfast at the hotel! Thanks to Miss Lisa we were given tickets to the Denver zoo. HOLY FUN!!! We spent around 5 hours there and just enjoyed spending time together for the first time as a family. After seeing all the animals we could possibly see, we went to the Cherry Creek Mall. Joey wanted to go to build a bear. We decided to have lunch first. This is where I saw Joey in ALL his glory. He mentioned he wants an earring at our house. I told him in our home boys do not wear earrings only girls. Joey shut down and was very inappropriate. He wanted to go to the FCC but we stayed firm with him and would not move until he acted properly. That took about an hour. Once he "came back around" we took him to build a bear. He LOVED it. He chose a blear bear with white stars on it. He picked out a Denver Broncos outfit  and cleats for the bear which he named after his brother Carlos. He did not put the bear down. He even changed into PJ's and seat belted it in the car.

By Sunday night we were pretty wiped out. We went swimming again and played with the underwater video camera again. We finished then had a serious talk with Joey. We let him know that when he comes to our house we will have rules. Rules that he will most likely not care for but the bottom line is that this will be how we run our house and we are in charge. We then asked him How he felt about it and if he thought he would be able to handle that. He took some space than came back and said Yes he wants to come live with us rules and all. HE and Phil stayed up pretty late that night building a model airplane. We slept than had breakfast and returned him to the FCC.

I am really glad we got to go and spend this valuable time getting to know Joey! Thanks to everyone who helped make this trip possible. I feel like it was a good experience and I am glad we did it.