Happy Easter.

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great Easter. I wish we all Celebrated Easter like we do Christmas. Not presents but to gather with Family to Celebrate the Resurrection of Christ as we do his Birth. I know we can get wrapped up in the easter eggs and cute clothes,or the presents of Christmas. When I really think about what these days are meant to represent you would think we wouldn't blind our selfs by putting the Easter Bunny, and Santa on a pedestal. But rather worship and praise our God for sending his only Son, for Jesus dying for us and then raising three days later. I am so blessed to have Christ in my life. I am truly blessed to have a relationship with him. I thank Patti in my Prayers for ultimately leading me to him. So next year as we dress up our girls and prepare to do the Easter egg hunt, I think I will take the time to read in the Bible first. Tell the girls why we celebrate this day. Show them not to glorify the bunny but to Glorify Jesus and all he has done for us.
Praise God that we have a place in heaven with Him and that our Savior died on the cross for us because He loved us so much.
We had a great day, Celebrating Jesus! I made brunch for My Family. My Mom and Dad were both here! I felt so blessed. It was the first time I sat down at a table with both my parents and had a meal.. for as long as I can remember. I am so Happy my Dad is making better decisions. I am so greatfull for the work he is doing to get him self help. I have to say that I have never felt so complete before in my life.
After the Girls woke up from there naps we took them to Nathan's Parents house. We had a wonderful meal Patti prepared(of course it was wonderful,her food is so yummy!) She made Lasagna, three bean salad, cherry pineapple fruit salad, and my favorite.. her home made rolls! The girls did a little egg hunt in the living room since it was raining! Got to love Washington! They had a blast. Nathan, Jon, Gabe, and myself hid the eggs. Not well we didn't want them to have a hard time finding them since they are 1 & 2. I think they would have been happy with just one egg. The first egg they found seemed to be good enough till we encouraged them to find more. Then by the end I think we may have went a little over board..lol It was all for fun so it was just fine. I hope you all had a great day. Enjoy the pics=)

Brandon 's Birthday PArty!

Brandon's Party was this Saturday! We sure had a blast. The weather was nice one minute and nasty the next. We had to go in and out of the house a lot but it was fine. It worked out great. When it was raining we did inside stuff like eat Pizza, open presents, and have cake and Ice cream. When it was nice we got to do the outside games.
First we did the pinata! I thought my attempt at a Pinata was horrible but every one said it was great. (Thanks by the way) I knew it looked funny but who cares the kids just bash it anyway right=) Here are a couple pictures of the. The blue hooded child is my nephew Ryan.
When we were all done with the Pinata we came back in the house for some PIZZA!!! Then we played the water balloon toss game. They had fun playing that. Alexis and Billy won that game. At least they didn't get to wet! Then we had cake and ice cream! My cake was yummy. I think everyone liked it..lol
After the big clean up of cake and Ice cream.We opened presents. He got lots of cool stuff he was really Happy! Then we went out side and played with Bubbles and rode bikes and scooters and skateboards! All in all he had a great day. Thanks to all who came!

My first atempt at a Skateboard cake

So I tried to make a skateboard cake, and l enjoyed every minute of it. The wheels are on the side so it kinda looks like a car. Brandon didn't want me to put the wheels on the top cuz he liked the design I made. So we just put them on the side. I bought 2 white tubes to connect the wheels and it would have really looked like a skateboard if I had done it like that, but it was Brandon's Birthday and his cake so I did it how he wanted it. Here are some pictures of the assembly and the final product. I did Chocolate cake on the bottom cream cheese filling and white cake on top=)

Washinton weather can sure kill a party!

I am so sad for Brandon! We had his party all planed for this weekend, and of course it is going to rain! We were going to have it at the skate park they just opened by our house! Now we have to have it inside! I am not sure what I am going to do. All the games I planed are outside games and I made a pinata! So I guess we will have to improvise=( I am going to make his cake this year. It will be my first try at a skateboard...wish me luck! I will post pictures when it is all done. Have a great rainy day everyone.Gurrrrr

Happy Birthday to my Little Man!

Today my awesome son Brandon turned 9! I can not believe it as been nine years since he was born. He has brought me much joy. He is such a boy. He loves to play soccer,basketball,and skateboard. We are having his Party next Saturday at the park. I will be sure to post lots of Pictures.
Brandon is very special to me. He is the only boy out of four. That means he has to deal with three sisters! He also has a step sister so make that four..lol Poor guy. It is so nice to have a boy around. It balances out the pink, princess, girly over load this house can some times experience. He is a trooper!
I love you Brandon! You are always going to be so special to me your the best son I could ever ask for=)

A day at the Park

Yesterday was beautiful. It was one of the warmest days we have had in a long time. I decided to run some errands, and take the girls to the Park. I got a lot done. I was proud of myself. I got the oil changed, drooped fresh eggs off to Patti, got some stuff at Wal-Mart, finished Brandon's Invitations, got all new tires on the van, got the van washed and vacuumed out! It was a long day. The best part was our time at the Park. While the Van was getting new tires I walked across to the Park with the girls and my Mom. It was the first time Trinity was on a swing set like this. She didn't know what to think at first.. then she Loved it! Maddy of course loved it.
She didn't know what to think of Trinity being on the swing set. She was looking at her with this funny expression for like five minutes then she decided she didn't care any more and just enjoyed her time on the swing.
I think they could have been pushed on there forever.
Needless to say they slept well after that=)

Finishing my Update.....

Well I just wanted to take a minute and give the February Update.

The first of the month was sad with Ricky and Tracie leaving.
We did our best to not think about it. I know we will see them again when the time is right.
So the next thing that came along was Trinity's first Birthday! I was so excited. I think it has to be my favorite Birthday to celebrate. They get to dig in to that cake, and they just don't know what to think with all the people singing Happy Birthday. She had a great time. We had a BBQ, and what I thought would be a small get together turned out to be a huge bash! Tons of people came. It was great. It was such a heart warming feeling to know so many people cared about Trinity. So thank you to all who came. I love you all! Here are some pics
She dug into the cake before we got done singing!
At one point she picked the entire thing up and stuffed her face into it!..lol

She loved opening her presents! This is her in her new Princess chair.
Here are some of the kids, and Adults hanging out side
A party fit for a Princess.
Well after her party came and went we moved on to the next Birthday..Nathans!!
This year Nathan turned 30! It is crazy to think I met him when he was only 22. We had a great day. We went to lunch and we went down to the River and went for a walk. It was nice to have some time alone. Then on that Saturday I had a little surprise planed for him..no, no not a party. I had the girls spend the night at the Grandma's houses. After we drooped them off we went home watched a movie and just relaxed. Then I made him leave for awhile and made him a special dinner and dessert. It was by candle light and flowers. It was so nice to have an entire night alone with him;)
I think he had a great Birthday!
There are a lot of Birthdays in this Month! So that same Saturday before we dropped the girls of we went to Logan's First Birthday Party. Trinity and Logan are only seven days apart! It was great he loved his Elmo cake! Dawn did a great job decorating and making it look so cute. Then it was Logan's turn to have his own cake...well he got a cupcake. His had red frosting hehehe it was great to watch him.Maddy got in on the cupcake action too.
Well that was pretty much it for February. We are looking froward to March I will be checking in more often and giving more detail on what we have been doing and just some of my random thoughts too. I realize I love doing this more then I thought=)

Happy 18th Birthday Jon!

Today is Nathans brothers Birthday he is 18! Wow I remember him being so cute and only 10 when I first met him. Crazy how time flies by. I hope you had a great day Jon! We love you lots. You are a crazy cool kid, that I have high hopes for! Love you! Here is a pic from this summer. This is the most recent picture I had=)

Ok I am going to do this!!

Well Here it goes.. I have not posted an update since November.. a lot has happened so this is going to take a while. It is now 12:06.. lets see how long this takes me. Maddy and Trinity are asleep so I hope they stay that way till this is done.

November was an exciting month for us. Tracie and Ricky arrived in WA on the 15th (I think). We knew for a long time they were coming so it seemed like November would never come but it did.
They arrived with a belly full of baby. Tracie had the glow. She was excited for her little one to come but anxious to get every thing in order. The first couple days was all business for them getting a Doctor getting Medical coverage and what not. They got all that taken care of, had there first Doc appointment and got an Ultrasound. They were glad to find out it was still a girl=)
They also got to meet Trinity for the first time and they loved her instantly. Ricky and Trinity hit it off they just loved each other!

After getting settled in for a couple weeks we enjoyed Thanksgiving together. It was the Fist time in Two years we had all been around the table together. What a blessing it was.

December proved to be just as exciting if not even more. First we had Madison's Second Birthday party. It was Cinderella, since she has an obsession with her at the moment. It was fun She was so excited to blow out candles and open presents! She got a lot of great stuff... Too bad Christmas is around the corner for her and she will get more stuff. I am thinking about having a party for her in the summer as she gets a little older so she don't have her Birthday and Christmas all in the same month.
Next came getting a Christmas Tree... We went to Thortons Tree Farm. It was a beautiful day out. The sky was clear the sun was shining and it was cold. We had a great time. After the guys cut down the trees, we went and checked out all the Animals. Madison could not ask for any thing better. She was having a ball. She loved feeding the Donkey, and sheep. She was laughing and just thought it was the best thing ever. Alexis and Brandon like it but are getting older now and just wanted to move on to the Hot chocolate.. I think Tracie and Ricky were having fun but not enjoying the cold weather. It is Summer in Cuzco right now, and it never gets this cold there. They were troopers but enjoyed getting hot chocolate to warm up as much as the kid's did. Next came decorating the tree. It went pretty fast and the kids helped a little. I just love to see the kids face when I bring down 10 boxes of ornaments and say ok so who is going to help..lol They were great but I did most the work,which is fine cuz I am very particular about how I want things.. That is something I try to work on. =)
After The fun times that the Christmas tree brought we had a couple weeks of down time before the big day! Christmas! It took much time to prepare and only minutes to get threw, but it is worth every second. I enjoyed this Christmas so much! I had all the people around me that I cared about the most. Whitney flew in from Ohio for a few days, Tracie and Ricky were here. It was great. We ate a lot, we laughed a lot, a couple kids cried but all in all it was the one of the Best Christmas' I have ever had.
Ok so it is now 12:48... and you people wonder why I don't update this very often!

So the next great event was New Years eve. It was a night to remember the past year and a chance to celebrate the one to come. I think it was a great night for Tracie and Ricky too. They knew any day now they could be having a baby. We had a fun night of playing games, I made some yummy snacks.. so it was waiting for what seemed like for ever.. for the ball to Drop and the clock to strike 12! It came and it went with a bang.. fire works, cheering, and a ton of HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Well I think what comes next is what we were all waiting for, the arrival of Precious Isabella, she came in to the world on January 10, 2008 at 1:10 am. She weighed 6lbs. 14oz. She took awhile to get here but Tracie got it done! She was so strong and didn't even complain! It was so amazing to be there when she was born. I am so greatful to Tracie for letting me be there and experience that with her. I think it brought us closer and we will forever share that bond. I do not have any sisters, she is the closes I will ever come to having one, and I couldn't ask for any thing better. She is so kind and so loving. She has a big heart and a knowledgeable mind. She loves Christ so much. I look up to her and respect her so much. I enjoyed the time we had together and miss her greatly. I look froward to having many more memories and getting to know her even more.

On January 27th we had Tracie's Baby shower. It was a great turn out. She got a lot of nice things. Diane and I threw the shower for her. I was so happy to be able to be a part of it all. Thanks to all who came to support Tracie and shower her and Isabella with love and gifts.

Isabella being born was bitter sweet. We all knew after she was born Tracie and Ricky would be leaving soon. Once they got Isabella's Passport and social security card they would be leaving for Chili. =( That sad day arrived not a moment too soon. They left on Janurary 29th. As much as we understand why they live so far away it still is sad when they go. We miss them and wait everyday for new Pictures and updates on little Isabella. She is about seven weeks old now.

Well this is not all of the story up to this point since it is almost the end of February, but I have to sign off. Maddy is awake and there is no being on the computer and concentrating when she is awake=) it is now 1:23pm so wow that took a long time but I hope you enjoy=) I will try to be back soon to finish the update.

Giving up..

I hate to say this... but I have really given up on posting Blogs. I try really hard to keep it up but I some how never find the time. Funny I can check Myspace five million times a day but I can not take the time to post on here.. Yes yes I know bad me. I will try to give a lets see four month up date soon=) Thanks for checking in to see how things are sorry there has not been much lately... more to come I promise.