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Friday, May 1, 2009

Roses, Saying Good Bye and a Family Day!

Remember a few posts back I posted pictures of the buds on my rose bush? Well, here are some of the blooms!!! There were 4 HUGE blooms that were so pretty!








Thursday, we just hung out with Alison and her family while they packed up and prepared to leave Friday morning. I couldn't help but snap this picture of Jadziah and Momo....kinda look like their mamas, huh?

Alison, Eric, Noah, Declan, Jadziah and Taejan left Friday morning. We had so much fun with them and really enjoyed the week. It was really neat to finally meet in person after talking for all these years!! As soon as they left, we began to get ready for more company!! My sister, brother in law and two nieces arrived Friday night for the weekend!! Saturday, Johnny, Erin and Jacey joined us for a cook out. I didn't take many pictures but I did have to sneak a few of Jacey!! Momo and Jacey!



Here is my niece, Miss Nicole, also known as Coco!! Isn't she just a doll?

Erin and Johnny needed to run an errand so they let us babysit Jacey for a little bit. Kristen was thrilled!!

I just love this picture of John John, Jacey, Ian and Kristen. It is so sweet, Ian was rubbing Jacey's little head and softly saying " sweet Jacey, sweet Jacey". I think this captures the sweetness of the moment....





My newest hobby is baking bread using my new bread machine and my whole wheat flour which I am milling myself!! I bought a bucket of whole wheat kernels and am using my friend's mill to mill the wheat into flour. I have had a lot of fun experimenting with different recipes and the bread is so yummy!! This is the first wheat loaf I made this past Monday night!! Kristen and I stayed up late waiting for it to come out of the machine so we could try it out!!


Kristen says "MMMMMMMMMMMM"!!!!


We have also gotten back into our school lessons this week and we went to coop on Monday. We only have one more coop day for this year and about 3 weeks of school lessons left until we take a summer break!

Monday, January 14, 2008

Aaron's 14th Birthday party!!!

Friday night we had Aaron's birthday party! We started the night with a taco dinner. We had a house full of friends to celebrate with us. Then Aaron had 4 boys spend the night too. I will let the pictures tell the story!!

Eating Tacos!!

The paintball cake! He also had a pound cake too as is his tradition!

Lighting the candles!

Singing Happy Birthday!

Still singing......


Blowing the candles...with a little help from Ian.


Playing music with Papa and friends.

Friends since they were babies!! Jesse, Chris and Larry.


Morgan (aka Lulu...or....Freckles as Aaron so lovingly calls her) eating her cake.

Tamara

Morgan and Morgan playing ping pong.


Time to open the gifts but wait......what is that coming in the door?!?!!?

Looking excited!

More cards/gifts.....( you could easily tell this was a teen b-day because all the gifts were cards with either money or gift cards!)


Papa....talking about Capt. Kangaroo!



Now time to open the big gift Papa was bringing in the door!!


VERY HAPPY!!


It's a drum set!!!!!


Drum head??


Checking them all out!

Tamara, Mrs. Stephanie, Cade and Tyler just hanging out.

Ian testing the snare drum.

Cade trying to be like Aaron!

Aaron and Tamara!! So cute!

After the gifts and cake, the big kids went off to do their thing. Randy got his guitar out again and played with the little kids. Here they are playing Simon says....


Now time to dance!!





Freeze Dance!!


Oh wait...they fell asleep I think! Not really...they were playing.


Sara and Momo did their favorite thing....sliding down the stairs in the sleeping bag!



Once everyone except the boys spending the night had left, we settled down a bit. Morgan and Ian played with Lincoln Logs for a bit.


Kristen chilled......

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The boys hung out upstairs playing video games. I think they went to sleep around 2:00am! They were pretty quiet though so we did get some sleep.