New Job

 Well Friends, Sorry it has been so long since I last wrote on this thing. My life has been rather busy. The Children's minister at my church resigned in early october. The elders came to me about a week later and asked me if I would be interestd in the job. Of course I said yes, so I am now a children's minister. Right now I am just the interim minister, but I think it is very likely that  the church will hire me on officially in a few months. So that has been lots of fun, but keeping me very busy.

My Kids are doing great and are very excited for christmas. Chris' niece got married and Darby was her flower girl. We also got to take a vacation to The Mall of America. I am including pics of both!

My Son = Evil Kneivel!!

Well For those of you who know my son...you know that I have always said that he would break a bone before he was three....I was right. Keegan has a Broken ankle. He somehow managed to accomplish this feat by jumping off the couch! He is a tough man though, he walked around on it for over a week before the doctor finally put a cast on him. So I thought I would share picture with you all of my little Daredevil in his cool new cast. By the Way....in case you didn't know....A cast on a two year old also doubles as a weapon!

If you are wondering why my son looks like that....I told him to make his owie face for the picture!

My 4 year old Princess!

Well, another Child has had a birthday, so I decided to finally update on here.

Darby turned 4 on Wednesday. It was so much fun cause this was the first year she actually understood what was going on. We had a party on Saturday with 7 of her litle friends from church and the neighborhood. It was dora themed, and I planned an adventure for them. We pretended that swiper swiped the cake and they had to go on an adventure to find it. I think they all had a good time...I know I did. I actually made my own cake this time too....and it was cute! I was so proud of myself. However I have no pictures to show you....cause I was too busy being the ring leader. My Mom took some for me, but she doesn't have a digital camera....so sorry....no pics.

My summer has been so much fun, but it sure has flown by. Not that it matters much...school starting has no real effect on me.

The kids are doing great. Keegan is really starting to talk....sometimes I really miss the old days! Darby and I have been working on preschool workbooks at home, and she is really whizzing through them ( I said through them....not on them) Her favorite part is when she gets to cut out pictures and glue them in other places.

Well I gotta run, I am including a couple of pics. The first one is of my Preschool VBS room that I decorated. I just want you to see it cause I am proud of it. The second one is just of my fam.  Bye!

My Baby is 2!

My son Keegan turned 2 today! I can't believe how much he is growing up. Everything about him is little boy now, instead of baby (except for the whole pooping in his pants thing...but hey he's still young).  I am pretty proud of him, even if he can be a real booger sometimes.

We had a big bash at a park here in town on Friday. It was mainly just family there...and Our good friends who live down the street. Keegan loves their son Logan....He calls him Yo- O.  The Party was  Disney Cars themed of course. Which by the way if you haven't seen that movie, I highly recommend it.

Anyway I have had family here for a week and a half. First Chris' Then mine. I am ready for life to return to normal for awhile...Unfortunaly there is no hope of that in the near future.

Hope everyone is having a good summer. Here are some Pics of Keegan's Party and cake....which I didn't make....my sister did!

Wow....I have really been lazy, I don't even know where to begin in filling you in on my life here. However for those of you who have been concerned that maybe xanga wasn't cool anymore....Never Fear....I'm back....It can be cool again

Ok so in May my brother graduated from OCC and the majority of my family came for the weekend and guess where they stayed....yep right here in my little house! For those of you who are not aware of the enormous size of my family....I had 19 people sleeping here and at one time I counted over 30 people in my house. My Mom has 11 Grandkids and they were all together for the first time ever....Here is a little glimpse into the weekend!

No, really we had a good time!

Anyway, after recovering from that for a few weeks, My mom and I got to go to St. Louis to See the Phantom of the Opera. It was really awesome. While we were waiting for the show to start Mom decided she wanted her picture taken in the theater, so being the good daughter I am I granted her wish. Then she conveniently went to the rest room and left her innocent young daughter to face a hideous beast. As I am sitting there, out of nowhere appears this gnarled old women with a flashlight. She sticks her flashlight in my face and says (insert voice like Roz from Monsters Inc.) "Did you see a flash?". I politely answer, yes, ma'am I took a picture of my mom. She growls, "You are not allowed to take pictures of the stage". I once again politely reply, I didn't take a picture of the....but before I can finish my sentence she barks...."It doesn't matter, don't do it again". Then she disappeared back into the hole she must have crawled out of. After that we saw hundreds of flashes go off over and over...but where was the Photo Nazi Then? It is discrimination! Anyway I managed to recover and have a good time anyway.

That is about all the excitment for me here. I have been keeping busy with my e-bay store. I am also teaching the Pre-school sunday school class. We have been spending a lot of time in my Brother-in-law's new swimming pool.

However the really big news around here....Keegan is pooping in the potty seat! For those of you without kids....someday you will understand the pure excitment I feel!

Oh....yeah one last thing....Fluffy jr. died....I give up.

I leave you with a pic of my beautiful kids and their gorgeous aunt.