what's up

David is potty trained! Happy Happy I am! He can now go to preschool at Starline. We are so excited. He starts on the 13, the same day Jacob will start 7th grade. Ella is really doing good with her walking. She can get pretty much anywhere she wants to. Eddie's job is finally getting busy Praise the Lord! My work has been steady and I am keeping very busy with kids and job. Jacob is going to play fall soccer, he has not played for a really long time, It will be fun, he has a friend who will be on the same team with him. Uncle Marc let him borrow some shoes, I can't believe my 13 yearold son has feet as big as his uncle!

Eddie and I are celebrating our 16th wedding anniversary this weekend. Today is our anniversary. Jacob is with his cousin Ira. They are going to Natarita,(somewhere in the mountains) for a youth revival. Ella and David will be spending the day and night with Grandma. We are going to go to Estes Park and just hang out. hopefully do some hiking and maybe a horse back ride, we shall see. It will be nice to get away, even if only for 1 night and day.

Oh we also got a new kitten Ye-Ha. After this weekend i will get some pictures posted.

Ella taking her first steps!

weekend at the Renaissance festival

We went to the Renaissance festival this weekend with Jessica and Travis. We had Ella stay at Joe and Eva's . It was a really fun day. Eddie and Jacob jumped on these trampolines with big stretchy bands hooked to them so they could jump really high. Nobody took a picture of me throwing hatchets. I actually got one to stick! It was cool. David, Jacob, and Travis rode the elephant. $4.oo for 30 sec of fun what a deal!!! It started to rain about 2:00. We decided we had had enough fun and headed home.

Ella's party

Uncle Joe

Uncle Travis. Ella loves to rip up paper. She is so serious:)

Aunt Jody and Cousin Coy

Grandma gave Ella a toy kitten, she loved it.
Alex had fun on the trycicle untel he fell of the edge of the deck :( he was ok

Ella's Party was very nice we had many people show up to celebrate. The day turned out to be a really pretty day, so people were able to go out side and it was not so crowded inside. Ella loved all the attention and was smiling most of the time. Lots of people held her and we let her crawl around. Her cradle care family got to come. It was good to see them. They were excited to get to see Ella. The last time they saw her was when she was 12 days old. She let them hold her and was very cute. They gave us a plaque that says-Family The Greatest Gift I Ever Received. That is so true for us. We are so happy and feel very blessed to have a wonderful family and great friend who love us and support and encourage us. Thanks to everyone.

Ella is crawling!

Ella started crawling on April 30. Eddie, Jacob, David and I had all guessed a day that we thought she would crawl and whoever got the day or the closest to it would get to take Ella out for ice cream. Jacob won! So of course we all had to go out :) Jacob didn't think that was fair . He thinks we need to let him and Ella go by themselves to get ice cream. I am suppose to just drop them off at the store and leave my cell phone , just in case he would need to call me. I am then to go shopping or something until they are done. These are Jacobs orders. We shall see.
We are celebrating Ella's adoption being final this weekend. It is not suppose to be a very warm day:( I was hoping for good weather so kids could be outside. Thanks to all who answered my invite. It's great to hear from all of you. I have been feeling a little sentimental lately and have been missing everyone. I am hoping to see some of you this summer.
I will try once again to get a video up and running soon. Talk at you later.

Cousin Emry

Cousin Lilly

Cousin Nakeesha and Aunt Jessica

Silly Jacob

Pretty Easter Dress and Pretty Girl
David at church Ella and Mommy before church


Ella at church

Before church


Eddie, Jacob, and David dying Easter Eggs

We had a busy Easter day.We went to church at 8:30 to have a breakfast and a scavenger hunt. Then church service, on to my mom's house to eat, then on to Eddie's brothers house to eat, then home. So basically from 8am to 8pm we were gone, and stuffed. It was fun but tiring. The weather was cold. It usually is at Easter. We are in for some more snow this weekend. It is suppose to hit tomorrow and go through the weekend and then I think next week is going to be nice again. Crazy weather. hope you all had a great Easter.

Snow Day!!! 2

We woke up to a beautiful snow today. Well I woke up to it ,Eddie has decided to start running in the morning so he was up before it started to snow. It is 10:30 and we have about 4 in. Eddie just went to take Jacob his trombone and they sent Jacob home with him. They had a hard time getting back into the driveway, very slippery!

Here is the swing set we got from someone Eddie use to work for. I don't think we will be playing on it today. (unless we find David's snow pants ) He has been wanting to go outside and play all morning!

These pictures are in backwards order. Here is Jacob sitting at our finished bar in the kitchen.

Eddie's handy work.

He had to move the phone light switch and outlet.

Here's Jacob!!!!

Everyone got in on the demolition of the wall.

I found it a little funny that my last post was a snowy day also. Must be because all my customers cancel and Eddie is home to coral the kids. I like these days!

We have all been a little under the weather but are finally feeling better. Ella probably was the wost:( but she is feeling much better. I am trying to figure out haw to do a slide show, if anyone has an easy way to do that let me know. I tried to do what Gina did in one of her first posts, but it would not let me put it on my blog. Help.

Here you can see where the phone and light switch use to be, oh and a really cute boy.