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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!

Thursday, January 1, 2009

A Special Christmas Surprise!!

We were so blessed with an amazing surprise just a couple weeks before Christmas. I am not going to go into all the details of the story. My sister experienced a very hard time in her life about 11 years ago. It involved her placing her son, Micheal for adoption. He was 6 years old at the time. Fast forward to about 3 weeks ago, my sister received a friend request through myspace........it was MICHEAL!! He found her.......well, all of us and made contact!! We are so very happy to be back in touch with him. The kids and I drove up to my sister's Saturday, after Christmas and Micheal's parents brought him to meet all of us!! We had such a great time just hanging out for the night. We had a big ole family slumber party!! We all took tons of pictures. We didn't go anywhere or really do anything big, just a whole lot of visiting, talking, laughing, loving, and spending some wonderful time together. This is the first time every my sister and I have had ALL of our kids together!! Anyway, here is just a small glimpse of our weekend!! (Sorry. The pictures are not in perfect order.)

Micheal, Ian and I!! He still loves his Aunt Cha!



Nicole!


Pretty Momo.



Ian and Asha chillin' together.




Trey and Kristen playing!

My sister, Trina and Micheal!

















My sis!




Trey and Nicole.


Ian crashed first!


Playing Mad Gab. ( Trina, Aaron, Kristen and Trina's friend, Dawn)






Ian and Trey having a late morning chat.











Micheal does Hula dancing so he dance for us!! It was great and he is really good!!






Time to wake up boys.....











My two nephews...Trey and Micheal



My sis and her boys!!








All our kiddos!







This made for a really special time!!! We can't wait to do it all again!!