Chaia's Drawing Skills

Chaia drew this picture of me today. I love my boots!

A Good Laugh

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San Fransisco 09

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

26 Things To Be Thankful For.

1. My beautiful girls (all four)
2. Wonderful husband (esp with my OCD)
4. Again Tim (who is quite the dad/ step dad)
5. All my amazing and supportive family Mom, Dad, Sisters, Brothers, Sis in-laws, Bro in-laws etc. (things they do for me on a daily basis big or small)
6. My amazing and supportive extended family
7. My Health (without I wouldn't be able to push those carts at costco)
8. My supportive Hair Clients (sometime the only adult interaction I have)
9. How smart the girls are
10. The laughter of my children
11. The abilities god gave me.
12. The patience I have been blessed with (most of the time)
13. The wonderful friends I have found along the way
14. My massage friend who kicks my butt!
15. Having the freedom to do what I need to do (with a few exceptions)
16. Being able to read otherwise I would be missing out on a nightly ritual with Chaia
17. Chaia's dad (he's so good to her)
18. Spending time with my grandma...even though she doesn't know who I am half the time.
19. The opportunity to hug and tell my family I love them everyday.
20. The wonderful heated house I live in, food on my table, and running water.
21. That I don't have Gentry and Gillian's Guinea pigs living at this house (stinky)
22. The time Gloria spends with the girls
23. My support group at The Sharing Place
24. The relationships in my family that have grown stronger.
25. Being Alive
26 All my Family!!! (I love all of you!!!)

What are you thankful for?

The Sharing Place

The Sharing Place shopping night... Thursday November 19th 5:00-8:00 @ Ten Thousand Villages (1941 S. 1100 E Suite 1945) Fifteen percent of all purchases made Nov 19 from 5-8pm will be donated and used to support the grief support programs at The Sharing Place.

Ten Thousand Villages has amazing, unique gifts...perfect for the holiday season and it's a great cause. hope to see you!

A friends words

"God doesn't give you the people you want; He gives you the people you NEED...to help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you into the person you were meant to be."

Grandma's Halloween Party

Cher's photoshoping Skills

Chaia's Costume

Today my mom helped me start Chaia's Halloween skirt. I must admit I did a pretty good job finishing it. I altered her hat to match her skirt.

Pumpkin Carving

Pumpkin Patch

First pictures of the Wedding Day

If anyone has anymore pictures of the wedding will you send them to me or I will get a disk to download them...Thanks

2 Days to Go!

2 Days to go!

Ikea,
Beauty supply,
Walmart,
Sams Club: They ordered the WRONG flowers for the wedding (Oh well)
Pick up Baylee,
Costco, (to find replacement flowers for the wedding)
Take Gentry to soccer,
Make dinner,
Pick up Gentry from Soccer,
Get kids to bed.

A full day tomorrow! Can't wait!

3 Days to go

74 on Saturday! YEA!!!

Made Cupcakes (Thank you my sweet Natalie for spending the entire day helping me)

Can we say Craziness...

Chaia,
Jaxon,
New Puppy,
Gentry, Gillian, Jeremy,
Babs, Cher,
Cher's Hair,
Making 178 wait 177 cupcakes fit in the freezer,
Taco Soup,
Pictures,
Fake Dollar store rose petals everywhere (many times)
PHEW!!!!!

What a long day!

4 Days to Go

Today...a little bit more ready for the big day.

Tomorrow's project is baking cupcakes...lots of them!

It's going to be warm, it's going to be warm, it's going to be warm!

Oh My!!!

Five days until the wedding! You ask if I am ready...the answer is "NO".

We have a weather prediction of SUNNY and 71 on Saturday. Please keep your fingers crossed for me. Positive affirmations: it's going to be warm, it's going to be warm, it's going to be warm.

Running For RAEGAN

Hope Kids provides ongoing events and activities and a powerful, unique support community for children with cancer and other life threatening medical conditions. Hope Kids surrounds these remarkable children and their families with a message that "Hope" can be a powerful message.

The reason I am writing this entry is to ask friends and family if you would be willing to donate to this cause. I am not asking for large amounts just small donations if possible.

I am running a 5K Saturday September 19, 2009 with a few friends to try to raise money for this wonderful organization.

Here is the our website http://www.active.com/donate/uthopewalk/princessraegan

also, there is a great video that shows some of Hope Kids and the things they go through. http://www.theoldhamfamily.com/hopekids-video

What we do on Saturday nights!

Homemade Glitter Toes
The Boys: toenails polished, eating ice cream and playing the Wii (Priceless)

Chaia's Birthday Part 2

Chaia's Birthday Part 1

Chaia's is now the big THREE (where does the time go) her birthday was Saturday, September 5th. Her heart was set on swimming, so we started off the day at the pool. The kids had a great time but got tired very quickly. After an hour or so we hit melt down mode...time to go!

Braces Anyone?

Before

After

This past Wednesday Gentry officially entered the pre-teen phase. She was so excited about getting the braces, then they were installed in her mouth...not so excited anymore. I think she still looks cute!