SHE is Here!

Thanksgiving Prayer for OUR NEW GRAND BABY

"O Saint Joseph, you witnessed the miracle of birth, seeing the infant Jesus born of your most holy spouse, the Virgin Mary. With wonder and awe, you took into your arms the Savior. With gratitude that only a parent can know, you glorified God for the birth of his Son, entrusted to your fatherly care.

Like you, St. Joseph, I too give praise and glory to God for the birth of a beautiful child. This child’s life is such a miraculous testimony of God’s loving presence. My heart is filled with grateful joy. Join me dear St. Joseph, in offering thanks to God for the gift of this child.

What great trust and confidence God placed in you, St. Joseph, by entrusting his only Son into your fatherly care. This inspires me to entrust the spiritual care and protection of this newborn child into your competent and loving hands. Teach, guide, and support her parents Javajava and Pooker to fulfill well their awesome vocation to be a worthy parents to Our Precious New Grand-baby! Amen."

Thank you to all of our friends that have been praying for this precious child. We are in love, to say the least. J and I are thrilled to now be grandparents (still working on our names!) 

Mom and baby are healthy and under the watchful eye of dad who is ready to help if either needs anything.

Happy Birthday Baby!

Happy Mothers Day Pooker! 

Happy 1st wedding anniversary to Pooker and Javajava!

Sticks is 21

Happy Birthday Sticks! It was so fun to participate in this trendy way to celebrate a birthday! The car train is so popular and allows us to wish happy birthday but doesn't require a ton of time. We allowed Sugar and Possible to stay out and spend time with their guys, even though lockdown didn't lift for us for a few more days. These kids have been locked up at home or babysitting or teaching swimming. Same people small areas, they needed to social again. There were so many cars lined up, and the group was led by a fire engine. I was glad to talk to Sticks later and hear him say that this was one of the best birthdays he has ever had. 

Happy Birthday Sticks!

Happy Birthday JavaJava

Pooker sent a video to share with us singing to JavaJava for his birthday! We hope you have a wonderful day! Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday Brock, Covid Style

Social Distancing and Lockdown procedures prohibit parties. Our area declared that schools would not get back into true session until next school year. This information was a little overwhelming for our precious nephew. He was missing his friends. The 'new trend' is to have the friends gather somewhere close to form a parade. Everyone then drives past the house and yells birthday wishes from their cars. We got a bunch of trinkets to throw out at him like a parade. We brought three cars. We followed friends from school and saw grandparents parked to enjoy the sights. 

Happy birthday Brock and social distancing means "Stay Out of the Car" .  Love this kiddo. This little guy said it was the best birthday he ever had.

Happy B-Day Pooker

Thank you to JavaJava for sending the video of him singing to Pooker. It isn't the same as all of us being there but it does make us feel a little closer.

Happy birthday to the beautiful woman who made us parents. We love you!

Happy 21st Possible

Happy Birthday Possible!  I hope the day was good. Not easy to plan or celebrate on lockdown. We told her that we would put beers in each room of the house and she could crawl from room to room pretending to have a "BUB CRAWL" but her siblings came up with better ideas. 

Decorations were up by the siblings and dad started cooking Possible's big huge breakfast. 

Possible's sisters wanted to make sure today was a good day for Possible, even though we were in lock down. They planned a big picnic but the parks were closed so they sat in the parking lot of one of the parks and enjoyed their lunch.

 Time was made to visit the store, just to make sure the ID would work. It did!

Boyfriend (un-named on blog so far . . . ) got permission from us and his parents to visit as long as he kept social distancing in place (meaning 6 feet away!).

The family then sung happy birthday to Possible with a cake.

Then the big party down stairs took place. The older siblings turned part of the basement into a bar area and set up a huge screen with a ZOOM call with all Possible's friends. What a cool day for Possible! Even on lockdown she knows she is very loved.

 This girl had a great day!

Cheers to Possible, happy birthday!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

So JavaJava and Pooker made it back to their new home in Abilene TX and I have stocked up on foods, now what to do we do? We celebrated St. Patricks day as best we could . . .

 . . . and Happy 21st Birthday to Dolo.

Not even sure if this was the best thing to do or not. We wanted to celebrate with Dolo and her own sisters let her leave for a short time. The kids were going to take her out to lunch but with all the newer restrictions and the news of places being shut down, they decided to come to our house. They found out while here that they needed to get to Lindenwood to empty dorms. Crazy times. While the kids were giggling and singing, J and I were watching the news. We decided that this was our last outside the home activity or visitors for a little while.  It was time for us to try to understand and embrace the idea of a quarantine due to an international pandemic. So much changed in so short a time.

Mom's Birthday

The kids always make sure I have a great birthday! I didn't want to go out or take any pictures, I am very glad that I was feeling so much better. At least I could eat the cake.

Pooker and JavaJava sent this book so that I can share with their kiddos. I will enjoy taking moments here and there,  to make a record for my grand baby.

One of my gifts was a bouquet of flowers. There are exactly 13 flowers in that bunch. My Possible always gives me this for my birthday. She gives me 11 pink ones to represent each of my children on earth and 2 white ones to represent the two babies that we lost and that are in heaven.

More gifts included coke candy and a bear! They know what will make me happy. Great kiddos.

One of my gifts was the white snow. I love it and so do my huskies.

Happy birthday to me!

Thanksgiving Dinner

Happy Birthday to Pickle, Happy Thanksgiving. My goodness these meals are so much fun. I love the meals. I love my family!

Jumba and Sugar Time

Labor Day Adventures

Sugar's birthday was on the first. Sugar took Jumba with her to school and too celebrate.  On a social level I believe that Jumba is ready for college all ready!