A Sister is Forever!

Well, some of you know that I have a 15 year old sister, Hannah. I love her soooo much. I remember as a baby she would sleep on my chest at night. As a toddler and preschooler my husband and I (the dating) would take her on school field trips and to fun places like the park, zoo and mall.

Well, we still do things together, but now she is not the baby! I have 5 of my own babies now! lol Hannah comes down a few times every summer, to visit, and for church camp. Here are some pictures of some of the things we did this summer.

This is my favorite picture of us at our mom's house for Lydia's 3rd birthday and late Easter celebration. She said she did not like cupcakes, but I had to make sure. lol...I did not want her to miss out on something so good :) Of course, then there are always paybacks ;)

These are pictures taken at my husbands (Hannah's first crush, btw, when she was 3) 30th surprise birthday party. She was advertising the good food, of course, and hanging out with her good friend, Jake.

A few days after the party we went to church, and then to Mazzios for some good eats! Here she is with her friend from our church, Whitney. This is where a sappy teen boy tried to "hit" on her. He came out a few minutes after we left, by out I mean outside to our car, and asked her if she left a shirt in the booth! Paaaleeeease! We know what he was up to....smooth moves buddy! It was probably his shirt! lol

We took the kiddos to the splash pad and park, where we took these pictures!

Later on that night, she climbed in bed with me, to harass me, like she always does when she comes down! Yes, sometimes we actually still snuggle! The second picture I threw in just because....no need to thank me, Hannah! lol

We also spent the 4th of July together. We watched one of the most awesome fireworks shows we have ever seen! We had a lot of fun before the fireworks taking pictures. Hannah had a lot of fun in the kiddos stroller as well. She made her first mistake when she asked me to push her! lol I pushed her alright, and let go! She looked pretty funny trying to push her way back! lol

We also went to Teen Camp together. I sponsored the teen girls, and she was in my group. I did not see her much because she was hanging out with her "boyfriend" most of the time! Yes, he is the dorky one in orange in the 2nd picture! lol

Anyways, we have a lot of fun together! She says when she is grown up she is still going to come down every summer, even when she is married! lol. I will be so sad when she quits coming....


I love you Hannah! Your my sister and friend, and I love you forever!


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This is in memory of our sister, Amber, and her unborn daughter, Jayden, who went to be with the Lord July 30th, 2008.


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I am annoyed! I found that my blog counters quit working, so I have to guesstimate what I remember seeing them at last! Oh well, worse could happen! lol

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Mcklinky Favorite Kid Photo(s)

I absolutely LOVE the silly faces my little EJ makes :)







It is actually a series of pictures of my silly overactive 4 year old! The video is even better! He is so fun :)
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Kids Camp 2009

Kids Camp was a few weeks ago, and the kiddos had a great time!

The kiddos are off to a week of learning about Jesus and Fun!



This is a picture Jason took of a sunset out there, doesn't it look like a post card?



This was the first year I let Dacia go without me, it was kind of scary, but she is a pretty mature and responsible 6 year old. After all, her brother and daddy were there! She had alot of fun playing games. Below is a picture of a game similar to Duck Duck Goose. A person goes around the circle and pours a little bit of water on each persons head (the goose) and then pours a large amount (the goose) and runs!



Then, there is the huge gigantic slip and slide!



A hayride...



...and fun at the park!



There is also the hike up to the 3 crosses, always a treat!





Enough fun to take a young girl out! lol



Elijah, Lydia, Sariah and I went to visit Wednesday night. We enjoyed some lovely camp dinner, spaghetti and bread. It was really pretty good!




I am so thankful for kids camp and the children that come to know the Lord. So many kids do not get an opportunity to hear God's word, except for going to church camp with friends.

Many kids benefit from the focus of God and the world being left...well, in the world. At camp there are no t.v's, no game systems, cell phones, etc. Just Godly fun!

Soon, I will post on Teen camp. We all went to teen camp, as I sponsored the teen girls!

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Mcklinky Blog Hop: Recipe: Oreo Bon Bons!!!

SUPER YUMMY OREO BON BONS!

Buy: 1 pack oreos, 1 package (8oz) cream cheese, white and or chocolate almond bark.

Do: Crush whole package of oreos semi fine, mix with warm cream cheese (like 30sec in microwave). Roll into balls and put on wax paper. Freeze about 30-45 minutes. Melt chocolate (using both white and chocolate is best) in microwave following directions on package (hint: add a little Crisco, makes for easier dipping). Take cold balls from freezer and dip some of your balls in choc. and some in white choc. using a toothpick or something similar. Lay them back on wax paper, and when done dipping all the balls take a spoon and drizzle opposite color of chocolate on the balls, so drizzle white choc on choc. balls, and choc. on white choc. balls. Let stand until dry, about 10 minutes (enough to let outside dry, and inside melt) and serve! Yummy. It usually takes a few times until they are "perfect". It is worth it! Oh, and if you decide to use the white choc. and color for a shower or anything you have to use oil food coloring, or it ruins the ability to dip pretty. Enjoy :-)

Serving size: 1 bon bon (batch makes 45)
Calories each: 89
Fat each: 4g
WW Points each: 2
Fiber each: less than .5

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Busy Summer!

We have been so busy this summer and I have not had the chance to put up as many pictures and blog posts as I would have liked too.

As most of you know, my sister came down for a few weeks, and that was tons of fun! we really do have a good time together, acting silly. My older 2 kiddos also went to church camp with my husband this year. We went up and visited one night, and could tell they were really enjoying themselves. I hope to post a few pictures of these events soon!

Now, we are coming up on teen camp. We are all going. My husband is sponsoring the boys, and I the girls. This is a new experience for me, being a sponsor, with 3 of my 5 kiddos staying in the dorm with 14 teen girls! I was a little worried at first, and did not want to, but things just kept happening letting me know it was God's will that I sponsor the girls this year, so here we are, we're going to teen camp!

We leave Monday morning and will return on Friday. My sister, and her friend, Sarah, are coming up Sunday to stay the night with us. Then Monday we head out! They will stay Friday night, and maybe Saturday too. We may even go to Frontier City for a day of fun on Saturday!

The week following that we have the Brazillians, Kari and Kepler, coming to stay again....We can't wait! It is always so much fun to have them over. Although our house is small, there is always room for more to love! We plan on taking them to the drive in movies (which are so much more fun now that we have the huge back of a Suburban to lounge in) to see the new Harry Potter!

After Kari and Kepler leave for Brazil, we will have approximately one week before school starts! Can you believe that!?! Luckily we sold our van, we were discussing today how we were going to fund school supplies, football, school clothes etc. without having sold our van. I told my husband that we need to pray that the van sells...then, we sold our van! God is good!!!

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Oreo Bon Bon Nutritional Information :) and Oops!

First of all, if you got my Mcklinky Three Things About Me emailed to you a million times I am sorry. I tried to spell check it and fix the errors, but for some reason it keeps publishing them without fixing them...it's making me nuts! I had to finally give in and just let it go!

Okay, off to more important things, Oreo Bon Bons. This is the data for both the doubles stuffed and mint ones. I used regular Oreos w/ fat free cream cheese and vanilla and chocolate almond bark:

Serving size: 1 bon bon (batch makes 45)
Calories each: 89
Fat each: 4g
WW Points each: 2
Fiber each: less than .5

Hope that helps :)




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Mcklinky: 3 Things You Don't Know About Me

1. If we cannot afford it...we don't buy it. We do not own 1 credit card and have paid off or rid of approximately 50,000 in debt

2. We want to adopt when some or all of our children leave home.

3. We encourage our children to live with us through college, to help with purity and peer pressurs and to save money and stay out of debt.

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Prayers Needed

Please pray for one of our youth, Leighann Scott, and her family. She lost her mom today unexpectedly.

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"Don't Make Me Pull a Police Man Over!"

Tonight I wanted to share a few short stories of things that happened while my husband and older two children were at camp.

The background of the first story is this:
I let Lydia sit in the middle row of seats in Dacia's car seat while she was away. This is a booster, and Lydia figured out how to get out. Her and Elijah both had been in and out of the car seats the day before.

Well, Elijah had unbuckled and I told him he better buckle before I pull a police man over (which I have done before, btw). He buckled immediately, but then Lydia unbuckled. I repeated it, she did not comply, so I pulled off to the side of the highway to buckle her back in.

While buckling her I told her she had to stay buckled to be safe, and mommy did not want her to get hurt in a wreck or a police man to be worried for her and pull us over. I explained to both of them if mommy can't keep them safe, then the police man will.

Well, perfect timing, here came the lights. YES! I was sooooooo happy this nice police man stopped to check on us. I told him what was going on, and he went back about his business.

You should have seen the kids faces! Elijah looked like he had seen a ghost, and now both children believe me when I say a police man will pull us over to make sure they are safe if they are not in their car seats!


Background for the second story:
Every Thursday we pack a lunch and take it with us on our outing. We always go to the car wash and they have a picnic while I vacuum out the car. Well, as I said before, the older kiddos were at camp, so they were not there. Since Lydia was in Dacia's seat she could unbuckle herself. I got Elijah settled, and here came Lydia. I shut the door and set up their picnic. So, like the usual right? WRONG!

I go and start the vacuum and open my door, but it will not open. ALL OF THE DOORS WERE LOCKED! This is not even the worst part, the baby is inside and it is like 105 degrees outside! Luckily, my car was running, like usual when I vacuum out the car with the baby inside. It is to hot to not have the air on for 20 minutes.

So bad news, keys locked in car, baby in car...good news, air conditioning is on.

Well, I needed to call my insurance company, buy my phone was in the car. I peeked in the window to check on the baby and she sees me and starts crying. I felt so bad. I borrowed a ladies cell phone and told my insurance company the situation and to please send someone out fast. They said someone would be out within 2o minutes, but the phone call itself took like 15. I am thinking, it took about 5 minutes from the time I shut the door until I made the call, another 15 on the phone, and then another 20 til they come?!?

I was concerned that the air would stop being cool, so I kept balancing b/w watching the 3 and 4 year old outside and the baby, who kept screaming, inside. I tried to be sneaky when checking her, since she cried harder when she saw me, but it did not work. No matter which side I peeked at her from, she saw me! The good thing was she never got hot.

So, a lady next to me asks, "Are you locked in your car? Is there a baby in there?" I think she was about to tear into me until I assured her the air is on, and if she was to show any signs of getting hot, I would either call the police out or break a window myself to get her out. I would rather pay for a window any day than let any of my children sit in a hot car like that. She seemed a lot friendlier after chatting a minute, I would have been concerned too if I had overheard someone say they locked their keys in the car on a 100+ degree day with baby in it!

After about 20 minutes the guy came, opened it with a wedge and a bank envelope! WHAT! I could have done that! lol. The baby is screaming, still, so I get her out. We are all hot and sweaty (me, the locksmith, and the 2 older ones) and the baby is cold! She had the better end of the deal! lol Anyway, I hugged her, loved her, and of course had to nurse her before continuing my routine of cleaning out my car!

Needless to say, it was an exciting week. However, this kind of excitement I could live without! I just thank God, literally, for watching over us. We could have been in a wreck when we had our seat belt battles, or my car could have been turned off and I would have had to broken a window to get the baby out, potentially hurting myself or the baby. God is watching over us.


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Comments Enabled Now!

For some reason a lot of my friends have been saying they cannot leave comments on my blog, and I was unsure why (and still am). I went in and changed a few things, and changed them back, and now we can leave comments! Yeah! Still not sure what was wrong though. lol

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4th of July

***NOTE: Mcklinky post is 2 down***

This year for the 4th of July we traveled to Edmond, UCO to be exact. We had heard rumors that they have one of the best fireworks shows in the nation! They also free rides and stuff for the kiddos, however, with the crazy rain and hail we got, that was cancelled. However, we headed that way, stopped at Sonic, and went and hung out in front of the Forensic Science building.

The younger ones had fun standing in the car window watching everything going on. This was a one time deal with Dad! lol He was right there to keep them safe. They really did have a good time though!





The older kiddo, and my sister, Hannah decided to hang out in the vehicle for a while.




Shortly before the firework show began we decided to have a little fun!









Hannah, my sweet and light weight sister, thought it to be cool to hang in the stroller, that is until I pushed her out a ways and left her to fend for herself! lol It did not take her long to figure out how to push herself with her legs and steer herself back to the Suburban! lol



Here is a picture of all of us getting ready to watch the fireworks.



It really was a good firework show, one of the best we had been to in a long time! I tried to upload a video of the finale, but it was taking way too long.

We really had a good time and I enjoyed the time with my sister. Later I plan on doing a post on our time together the last few weeks. I love you Hannah :)

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