Who's birthday is it?

Happy Birthday Tiger! We waited a long time that night for Tiger to get home to surprise him for his birthday.

SANTA HAS COME!

Our first Christmas in Illinois.

Wii

I think the biggest hit this Christmas year was the wii game. Santa probably could have saved a lot if he just sent that for Christmas.... I have to say though that it is a lot of fun to play as a family.

Christmas 2007

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Letter to Santa

As I was going through papers to throw away for the trash day, I came across this letter to Santa. It was posted in the Scott Flier on December 20th. How amazing that I found it.

Could this be our Emilee?

our backyard

This was our backyard two days after the first snow fell.

Student of the month

Emilee made student of the month for December. Words could not describe how happy she was. She talked about it everyday from the first day she found out. It even encouraged her to go to bed early every night before school.

First Snow

WE LOVE YOU FROSTY!

Happy Birthday Giraldine

Hard to believe it....my babies are growing up.....

We had nieghbor friends over and I cooked her favorite foods. She was mostly happy when her dad finally made it home and brought her gifts.

Fall 2007

popcorn festival

Went to the popcorn festival they have at Scott AFB. The kids enjoyed getting out. It will probably be the last nice weekend before the cold starts to come in.

Happy 13th Birthday Bree.....SURPRISE!

Breana did not want a party this year BUT....I threw her a little surprise. Her friends and I hid in the house waiting for her to come home from school. She was totally surprised. Her dad bought her roses and the picture frames. I got rid of our piano to make more room in the house and replaced it with a nice keyboard with headphones for Bree.

Happy 13th Birthday Bree! We love you sooooooo much!

Miss Niemeyer

Emilee's new teacher is Miss Niemeyer. She seems very nice but hurt her leg right before school started. Let's see how Emilee will do if she has to have a sub in the beginning of the year.

First day of school.........

The girls were up early this morning for the first time all summer. Let's see how they are when they get home from this half day of school. Breana is in eight grade...wow....Giraldine goes to the same middle school...she is in sixth and little Emee is in first grade all by herself.

I have decided to start a family childcare program to be able to somewhat be home with the girls. The girls are definitely excited about it. As soon as I decided to do this, I received my new calling as the Young Womens second counselor in the presidency. WOW! I thought being a Beehive adviser was tough untill I was totally comfortable with teaching the girls...the Lord had made new plans for me. I am totally excited and almost overwhelmed that the Lord has an extreme amount of faith in me to do the work. I know that it will be a great year to come.

Freedom is not Free

This was a shirt that Tiger made to wear for that day. Unfortunately the birds did not agree. They left him a little present on his shoulder while he was leaning next to Brian's car.

The fourth of July

We spent the Fourth of July at my sisters. We were going to barbecue in town but we were not allowed to grill on the grounds. It is the one event of the year that the town makes most of their money. So after barbecuing we decided to be brave and go into Saint Louis ten minutes before the fireworks were to start. Unfortunately about a million other people were thinking the same thing. We got as far as East Saint Louis and decided to park right near the bridge, behind a building where we were able to see all of the large fireworks.