Our Family Ramblings!

Some more for your viewing pleasure!
Princess doing Caroling prior to her "Christmas Carol" show! (for nannie and pop pop!)

Monkey the Wii Bowling champ!!

This is for all of Monkey's sunday school teachers at our church!!!!!!!

You are doing it!! They are getting it!!!

All the time you put in, all the time you pray for the kids, all the time you drive to the church, all the times you wish you didn't have to .....

IT IS ALL WORTH IT!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

So with bible in hand... she sings!

We had a very laid back one here! Nothing super special, but it made him happy and that is all that matters! We started off the day with him blowing up Monkey's new swimming pool we bought her for the back yard to beat the summer heat! (10am and it was already 90 degrees! wheew!) Hey what else would he do on Father's day than "father" things! The smile on her face always makes it all worth it! After we ran a few errands, we had dinner at Texas Roadhouse... yeehaw!! Hubby really wanted a steak so ,voila!!

We got him a backyard golf net so he can practice his swing! He will be a pro in no time! (hopefully he won't ask me to go to any more golf tournaments with him! :o)

Monkey waiting for daddy to finish blowing up her pool!

It is really kinda cute... the giraffe sprays water out of his mouth!

This is when Monkey first got in !! She loves it! She cried when she realized what daddy was doing when he let the water out!

Even the dog got in on the action.... she was so hot!

Don't you spray me mister!!

See Daddy did get to sit around, put his feet up, and read the paper!!

This girl just cracked me up! Nannie called on the phone to talk to her sister /brother. Well, that was not going over very well, so she got her turn! She babbled on and on. You can actually hear Nannie on the other end of the phone because we have it on speaker phone so we can hear Nannie and rescue her if need be! When nannie says,"bye" , she waves and then pretends to hang it up and put it down! What a tune!!! You can definately tell she is one of ours.... she walks around the whole house talking on the phone.... I need to put a GPS on it when the other two kids have the phone so I can find them!!

I think secretly she wants to be a singer too! This one is for you Miss Jaime!

(sorry about the messy floors, but I am terribly unmotivated today!)

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We are so proud of you sweetheart!

(Lord, help me!)

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She has learned her newest sign! You can see our progress from the beginning here!

This is her signing that she is "all done"! Now as a disclaimer... this is HER version of "all done"! When she really gets excited about being "all done" it looks like she may take flight, but alas... she is "all done"!!

I have loved teaching her these signs! She now does "eat", "more", "bye" and "all done"! It has been a great help in our communication!

This past June, we had "monkey" dedicated to the Lord. In our faith, we don't baptize our infants. That is a command given by the Lord to the believer to follow the Lord in baptism. Since an infant can not make a public profession of faith and her desire to follow the Lord all the days of her life, we don't baptize them at infancy. We dedicate our infants to signify that we offer back our child to the Lord, thank him for our gift, and vow to raise our children in a Godly home with the hopes that someday they will make a decision to accept Christ as their Lord and Savior! That is my daily prayer and my heart's desire-- that my child grow in Christ and accept him personally. I pray they have a personal relationship with him. I pray that one day we will meet in heaven for eternity!

We did a great slide show put to music to honor "monkey" that they showed at the dedication. We had our dear friend, Jaime sing "In my daughter's eyes" by Martina McBride! I don't think there was a dry eye. Here is the slide show. It is to Martina's version. (don't forget to turn off the music in the left sidebar before viewing the video!)




All our family and friends attended! The church service was followed by a lunch at our home. What a great day!! "Monkey" was a gift from God! We give her back to him today! She is your child, Lord. Help us to raise her the best we can!

Praying over her!

I think that brings us up to date! I started the blog right after her dedication! Thanks for joining me on this jog down memory lane!!