Aloha, meet my artist..

In September of 2009 Payton and I had went on a cruise...when we returned to the US I had several messages on my phone from a great friend of mine who is also a foster parent.  She was telling me of a 16 year old girl who was available for adoption. I quickly erased the first message and thought to myself there is NO way in he.. double hockeysticks I am taking a teenager.  We have all heard the stories about teenagers that are in foster care.  Well, I got another message a few days later and than an email.  Payton and I talked and prayed about it and agreed that we would at least learn more about her from DCS and possibly meet her.  The next week I found her worker sitting in my living room telling me everything she could about Cyndi.  We decided to meet her and on October 1st, 2009 we met Cyndi Miyuki Yokota. 


We met her at East Town mall for the first time and we went shopping with her.  I will never forget her smiling face when I laid eyes on her.  She was gorgeous..I had saw a picture of her about a week before at a meeting at DCS when they were giving us an adoption report.  As soon as Payton and I laid eyes on her our eyes filled with tears.  Could this be our daughter? But that picture could not even begin to do her any justice.  She had the most beautiful skin. She is orginally from Hawaii and so I loved the fact that I was finally getting my dark skin baby that I had always wanted, LOL. She had just had her wisdom teeth out the week before and she was so worried that we would think she looked funny cause her mouth was swollen.  She did not talk ablot at first but after several minutes she opened right up and began talking.  We were left alone with her at JCPenneys for her to do some shopping and that is when she really opened up.

She told DCS she wanted to take it slow and we were more than fine with that.  However, the following week she told them she had changed her mind and was ready to move in. Wow, we were so excited!! So she moved in about a week and half after meeting her.


She is one of the most energetic funny people I know. She can say the darnest things and will crack you up.  She is so talented in her art skills. She will blow you away at her drawings.  She has even drawn me a tattoo recently that I need to go get.  It is really awesome.


I will not lie, there have been some hard times and sometimes we do not see eye to eye.  I only pray and hope that one day she will see it is only because I love her that I was so tough on her and did not see things the way that she saw them.  But yet I saw them form a mothers perspective. She has a very strong personailty and so do I so I guess sometimes we just go head to head.  We are alike in ways like that.

She graduaded from Hardin Valley Academy in May and I could not be more proud of her.  She had a long road ahead of her school wise when she came to us but he pushed through and conquered in the end.  I am so proud of her and very blessed that in July of 2010 Payton and I officially became her forever mom and dad.  She would forever be known as Cyndi Kaori Cooper


She is expecting our first grandchild in Feb. 2012 and we could not be more excited about meeting this bundle of joy.


Since I do not really know alot of the songs that she likes nor the music (it is quite foreign to me, LOL).... I am going to give this a shot. I think this is the type of music she likes....