Tuesday, June 16, 2009

I'm still alive!

My computer went ka-puts! I will try to get my blog up & running. My kiddos have grown a bunch since December. Here's a sneak peak of all the busy things that have been going on. Gracie is now "Miss Petite"
Tristan just hiding from me!
Bryce is bow fishing! It's just hard to see in the picture.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Prayer Request!!

Please Pray for the Mck Family http://www.mycharmingkids.net/.

Their beautiful baby boy is very sick. He is getting admitted into the hospital. He quit breathing a few times. So please pray for Baby Stellan & their whole family.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Loose tooth!

***UPDATE****
Gracie lost her tooth at school today. She was so excited! She showed Jody then before she knew it she had lost it. Jody and Gracie wrote a cute little letter to the toothfairy, and drew a picture of the missing tooth. They sure hope that works!

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Gracie has her first "loose tooth". It is on the bottom in the middle, I don't know what that one is called but that's ok I'm not a dentist.

A bit busy lately...

I have been so busy lately and I haven't had time to post some of my Thanksgiving pictures. I guess I will just post this family picture. This is as good as it gets with the 5 of us!

Since these last few weeks have been flying by, I wouldn't even no where to begin. So I guess I will start with...

This is a picture of my dear sweet friends, Herbie & Anna. Over the Thanksgiving break, they were in town visiting Herbie's parents. So Tammy and I came over to visit, mainly to visit Sydney & their new baby Nick. We had a great visit and can't wait to see them again.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Thanksgiving Break Update..

Well, this year I was to do the Thanksgiving meal. This was the best time I have ever had. My kids wanted to participate so bad. So we had my mom come over on Wed. night to help us prepare the turkey & her dressing.

Here's Bryce washing the Turkey!

Here's Gracie and Bryce making the dressing and putting it in the pan with the Turkey!

Tristan also got his hands in it! He helped prepare the green bean casserole.



The dinner was a huge success! Everyone had a great time and loved all the food.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Thanksgiving is Quickly approaching!

This is going to be my 1st Thanksgiving staying at home and preparing all the goodies by myself. I just bought my 1st Turkey, so now I will have to get my mom to come over Wednesday and tell me what to do. Remember I have never cooked a whole turkey, nor have I made dressing to go with it. So it will be a great experience, and I will get to test it on my kids and husband this year. That way if it all goes well, I can spread my wings and feed other family members in the future. Wish me luck!

Friday, November 21, 2008

22 years ago...

It's been 22 years ago, this week, that my dad passed away. My memories, I'm sure are different from Carrol and mom's. I was 11 years old, it was about 2 1/2 weeks before my 12th birthday. A friend of mine had stayed the night that Friday night. The next morning we woke up and went to town because she was on a bowling league. After she was finished bowling we sat outside of the bowling place and talked while waiting for her mother to come pick us up. As we sat outside, an ambulance with it's sirens on goes flying past heading toward my town. I had this feeling come across me and I said to my friend, "I wonder where they are going"? We waited a few moments later and her mother arrived. She took us to her clothing store there in town so we could hang out until closing time. We started getting hungry and walked from her store to a couple of blocks down to Wendy's. We ordered and sat down, then I saw my cousin and her friend rushing in to get me. They told me I had to leave with them because they were taking my dad to the hospital because he had a heart attack. Remember I was only 11 years old, I was not familiar with heart attacks. They drop my friend off at her mom's shop and we rushed to the ER. They took me back to a room where my mom and other family was. I sat there crying because I didn't understand what was going on. All I heard next was, "did you tell her?". They said "no, not yet". They then proceeded to tell me that he died. I felt like my heart fell out of me. They took us back to a room where he was laying on the table in his overalls.

What had been happening at home while I was at the bowling alley? Well, dad was down by the barn working on a car. He started having chest pains. Mom or Carrol called 911 to meet them in our small town, because the closest ambulance was 30 min. away. Mom got the vehicle and Carrol helped put dad in. On the way to town, Carrol started giving dad CPR. When they met up with the ambulance they took over, but I believe he passed before arriving at the hospital. My memory of their story maybe off a little, and I am sure their memories are more vivid that I am even stating.

But isn't it funny how God knows what we can handle. He knew that I was too young to handle the stuff going on at home and he removed me from the situation. Then brought me back in when it was time. He is still working on my life and others all the same way. He prepares us all, if we listen. He told me months before this happend that something was going to happen to my dad. I didn't know what, I thought it was just a nightmare I was having. I would wake up scared and crying because it was like a question being asked to me. Which one is it? Mom or Dad? The answer was always Dad. A few months later it happend. God prepares us all, he knows what we can handle and what we can't.

We buried my dad on November 17th, on November 17th, 2001 is when Jody proposed to me. He changed a sad moment in my life to a happy new beginning. How great was that!