A Dollar For Anastasia

A Beautiful Christmas Photo

Grace
I am looking at the first Christmas photos of Mia and Ethan and their five children, I am so very happy that they didn't give up after Julian and they adopted Penelope and Paulette. Julian and Paulette are 5 years old and Penelope is 4 years old and their twin bothers Oscar and Oliver are a year old. Mia spent all that pregnancy in a special suite at the hospital, they were born two weeks early but they were very healthy. She had to get back into shape after the twins were born, the children visited her daily and she read books to them and they welcomed their new brothers easily. The children are all holding hands and smiling at the cameras. Mia and Ethan look so happy. They are thinking of adopting more children.

Carrick
Mia did great and has five children now, and they want to adopt more. She has hired extra staff and expanded her restaurants and catering and wedding planning and suppliers of wedding attire and anything and everything for events planning. She has been working straight from her home and secured some very excellent people to run her companies. She keeps her eyes on everything and has audits ran regularly. Only a few people can sign any financial documents that only she can approve payments for. She got back ground checks on all her employees. Thomas Steele is working for her and she can trust him to keep eyes on everyone for her. He has his degree in forensic accounting and business management. He was as smart as Anastasia and it was a great hire.

Ray
Thomas is working for Mia as her assistant and he works behind the scenes to assure no one is telling from her. She brought him in when things started going on in missing funds and missing goods. Also over billing was going on. She found the culprits immediately and was able to get the funds back and adjusted the over billing and found out who took the goods from the companies. She hired Thomas full time and he audits daily. She terminated her staff that were behind all the criminal activities. She was able to recover everything and make amends because the employees still had everything and they had to return it all or go to prison.

Carla
We are very proud of both our children and Anastasia is very pregnant with her twin daughters and Christian is in seventh heaven. Theodore and Christian their sons are unhappy to be having twin sisters. Rose Ann and Ruth Ellen Grey will soon arrive and we are all excited about it. Thomas is working for Mia and he has helped her greatly with the thieves that were taking advantage of Mia being away from the companies. He caught all the thieves and had them dead to rights. Mia got everything straightened out and fired them after forcing them to return everything they took returned back to her companies. They were lucky to have everything they took and gave it all back to Mia.

Elliott
Mom is thrilled about how many grandchildren she has and is going to have. Kate really surprised us all with triplet daughters, Bella Carol, Ingrid Anastasia, Dawn Mia Grey. I was shocked and so was she, I can never get her pregnant again. I wanted another boy and she told me to think about adopting or get a surrogate. I have to say the triplets really took a toll on her and she spent the last three months in the hospital and Collin was very upset. He wanted a brother and got three sisters. I am going to look into adopting two sons after Kate settles down from our daughter's births. Our mothers are proud as peacocks having identical triplets and girls at that. Edward and Elsa decided to stop at Robert and Emily. Lisbeth and Barney decided to adopt a coworkers three children after their parents died during a robbery. Charles David, Allen Arthur and Christine Grace were triplets and 6 years old. So I am going to adopt the two boys James Stewart and Joshua Elliott Simms whose parents were killed in the same robbery. I checked and they are in foster care and no one has came forward for them.

Kate
Elliott has found two 6 year old boys whose parents were killed in the robbery at the same time Lisbeth and Barney's adopted triplets all five are six years old. James and Joshua Simms were both sad and we had to take it slow with them, we made sure we got there families things and their toys and bedroom items and Elliott created the same rooms for them in our home. Collin was helping get them settled in and he asked to get photos of our new family now. I even photoshopped their parent's pictures into ours. I created photo albums with both families integrated with their photos. It took me a while to create separate ones and then both families integrated with the photoshopped photos. They had one of those photo frames that can hold numerous photos that changes when you press a button.

Anastasia
We have set up a photo shoot for the whole family. At the time we didn't know that we would be adopting a set of twin boys that were left to me in their parents wills. I had no idea that they had done that. Mark Austin and Mathew Mathias Applegate are now Mark and Mathew Applegate Grey. Christian was thrilled to outnumber the females again. I don't know why April and Doug Applegate left their boys to us and in charge of their estate. We met each other in the hospital during our pregnancies. We spoke with each other every visit to the OB and I guess  we connected. I was her emergency contact if she couldn't get hold of Doug. Doug had a very dangerous job. He was killed in the line of duty and April died the day her sons were born she bled out and died on the operating table. They had already named their boys and I was contacted by the hospital and I went to see the boys and our daughters. Christian and I were shocked but we left with four newborns. Everyone was shocked and we had to create a new nursery. Plus add more help and security. The attorney's had to get things done with the estate. We sold the house to Thomas and he asked to keep the furniture, including the nursery furniture. We are done with adding children to our family.

Ray
We have a lot of grandchildren all at once. Carla is running ragged buying cute little outfits for our four newest ones. We don't forget to get Theodore and Christian things as well. Thomas has bought the home the Applegate family left behind and he asked for the furnishings including the nursery furniture. I questioned why he would want it but soon got my answer to my question. Carla wasn't surprised at all.

Carla
Thomas has found his soulmate, but she comes with unborn twins. We hadn't met her yet but Thomas spoke to Anastasia about buying the Applegate home and she sold it to him on contract. A very nice payment schedule after hearing about his girlfriend's situation. The babies aren't his and he can't tell us the whole story but he's doing what's right. Her family kicked her out and she had no place to go to. He asked her to marry him and I was stunned. Thomas became emancipated because he needed to be able to sign contracts. We were talked into it and he can marry the girl now without our permission. At 16 he has his college degrees and has a full time job. Emma Miller was working part time for Mia and that was how they met. She was a victim of date rape by a friend of the family's son. They believed him over her. Her family threw her out when she refused to abort her babies. She couldn't go to school because they refused to pay for her private school any longer. Thomas helped her get her GED and her emancipation. She is working full time for Mia now. She gets benefits for her and her babies.

Thomas
Emma and I went to the courthouse and got married it was a very simple ceremony and my family attended the ceremony and handed me the title to our new home. I was happy and dad gave me his old van as a gift. It had two baby car seats in it. I just barely had my drivers license. I am a husband now and I am very thankful for having such a great family. Emma has been very welcomed by all of my family.

Emma
It was heartbreaking knowing that my own family can't be more like the Steele family. They welcomed me into their family and now I have a home and a husband who doesn't care that he isn't the father of my twins. Once his name is on the birth certificate he is their father by law. That's all that matters to us. We were included in all the family events and it was a huge family and everyone welcomed me. The Grey's, the Millers not Emma's but Barney and Lisbeth, the Kavanagh family and all the children were included in the photos. I can't believe how many were adopted and I was asked to sign an NDA by Christian Grey. I asked if it worked both ways and he said it does but most people don't ask that question and he laughed.