Life's 2 Short

Belize

2010-01-19T08:13:00.001-08:00

We stayed at the Coningsby Inn, this is where teams stay when they come for mission work.

This is a little town called 8 mile, this is the town we are helping.

We are trying to get a team together in Feb or March to put a roof and porch on this house. If you would like to go and help call me and we can get you signed up to go on this team.:)

A few of my favorite things, Altun Ha, Mayan ruins. We had such a fun day here. First was the good food! Had the best grilled chicken and the BBQ sauce was awesome.

Another memorable moment is Jon trying to get a Tarantula to come out of it's hole. Luckily, it's to bright for them. Bill got one to come out, but it shot right back into it's hole. CREEPY! Can you imagine at night?? It has got to be crawling with tons of spiders, we saw lots of holes.

Loved this!! I am holding a baby croc. YEEEE! Yes, on top of one of the temples.

Then it got even better, I was holding a baby Ant Eater. He kept tickling my neck. I could have stayed up here all day.:)

On Monday we went out to this Island, Caye Caulker. We all loved it here too.
A slice of paradise. Good news is we have all the permits we need and are able to become a full time mission organization here. God is good!

Tristan's 9th Birthday!

2010-01-08T04:26:00.000-08:00

He's 9!!! I love watching the kids grow and mature a little more each year. I also love that this boy still has a heart of gold.

We love or friends and family!

We also love getting gifts!:)
The Oren clan before they left.
Playing with his toys. Goo, is so much fun!

We also love sledding, no matter how cold it is outside! Hot Chocolate always makes it better.

Christmas 2009

2009-12-28T07:14:00.000-08:00

Christmas morning was memorable, we awoke to no electricity. So we lit 50 tea lights and armed ourselves with flashlights.

Tiffany was over joyed with her American Girl Doll, she had been asking for her for over 6 months.

Tristan was pleased with his Game Stop gift card.

Tegan loved his Geo Trax Airplane.

We had a great Christmas morning.

In the evening we spent time with our cousins at Grandma's house.

Tegan's 3rd Birthday!

2009-12-21T07:35:00.001-08:00

Tegan's 3!!! Group pictures are the hardest! Especially when the B-day boy doesn't want his picture taken.

We had a great Birthday day!

Christmas With My Girlfriends

2009-12-19T20:39:00.000-08:00

Our Christmas get together with my girlfriends was a lot of fun! I love that we all enjoy reading, we love our kids, and we love chating about everything.

The kids loved playing together and working on there gingerbread houses. The kids took this on as a competitive adventure, boys vs girls...

They don't look to competitive here do they... maybe it was just the girls... I don't remember anymore how that played out. I just remember in the end the kids devouring this sweet treat!

Grandma's New Reading Glasses

2009-12-08T17:42:00.000-08:00

Tiffany is my creative girl. She made these glasses out of pipe cleaners. Tiffany looks so cute in them. I wanted her to show Grandma, only Grandma became impatient so she put them on. I had to grab the camera.

As you can see Tiffany wasn't to happy that Grandma had her glasses on. A few seconds later though the glasses became Grandma's early Christmas gift to Grandma. Grandma's comment a little later "I can see better!" I looked at her puzzled, she said it so convincing. My reply "really?" She looked at me and gave me a look and said "No" silently. Once again we had to laugh out loud.

Life Is Good!

2009-12-05T14:16:00.000-08:00

Catching up from the last post, we had the CSI retreat first of November in Merritt Island, Florida. Georgianna United Methodist hosted the retreat. They did a fantastic job of hosting all of us. I can't say enough good things about these wonderful people.

We had great fellowship and fun playing. Here are some of the CSI kids giving us a concert.
After the retreat we took some vacation time and had a great time at Disney.

Took in some mini golf.
We love the water!
We stayed at my favorite place again. Kidani Village at the Animal Kingdom. Here is one of our last pictures right before we left.

Disney put us into the Christmas spirit. We got the Christmas tree up and had the help of friends.
We also had one of the best Thanksgiving's, I will remember this as one of my favorites. Topped off with Mom crying and not being able to make it through what she was thankful for. Mom did all the cooking and did great!

I think we are all caught up. Well sorta.:)

Halloween Fun!

2009-11-03T06:08:00.000-08:00

We had so much fun this Halloween. We had a week long of parties and activities. Starting with our church costume party. Tristan dressed up as Robin from Teen Titans.

Tristan then decided to be a pirate when we went Trunk 'r Treating on Wed night.
Tiffany dressed up as a Hollywood Actress Oscar winner.

Tegan dressed up as a Dragon. He was usually a sleepy dragon.

On Halloween we had a party with our friends. We had supper and then went trick r treating. The kids had so much fun being with all their friends. We all had a great time! Tristan is holding Tegan and yes, he is wearing a different costume. He is now a skeleton. Tegan always put his costume on last, it made him so hot that he would get so sleepy.

Pumkin Patch

2009-10-26T18:51:00.000-07:00

Trying to pick the perfect pumpkin can be hard work!

It takes a lot of time to get that perfect pumpkin, even putting back a few before you can decide on the right one.
Tegan knew right away which one he was going to get.
Tristan went for the little pumpkins. I think he was drawn to the huge hill that made up the smaller pumpkins. He spent most of his time at that pile.

Tiffany had the hardest time trying to find her pumpkins. She had no problems getting the gunk out though. She not only cleaned out all her pumpkins, but helped Tegan finish his too.
As I watched the kids picking out their pumpkins, I cringed. It was so hard not to say anything. I did try to help, but that didn't get me anywhere. I would say "don't you want a bigger pumpkin"? :) Ronn finally said, why don't you pick out a pumpkin for yourself?:) Well, I didn't say much after that. :)

So Tegan picked out the biggest pumpkin. (Yes, I did go over and encouraged his final decision) Before we left for the pumpkin patch, I thought Tristan would have come home with the biggest pumpkin. Who knew?

We Had Babies!

2009-10-20T06:13:00.000-07:00

Here are Ree's Babies. This is Tiffany's cat that we let her bring back from our farmhouse. She had 5 baby kittens. My favorite kitten is the orange and the kids favorite is the black kitten, perfect for Halloween. I must say Ree is one of the best mothers I have seen.

They are all in the garage and just this morning I found that she had moved all of them. We had quite a few neighbor kids looking at them yesterday. She didn't move them far, they are now in another box that is tipped on it's side.

Soccer

2009-10-01T06:12:00.000-07:00

We spend our Saturday's watching Tristan play soccer. His team name is England. This is one of my favorite games. He was so close to scoring in this game. We won this game 9-1. Go England!

Our neighbor friend came to watch the game too. Tegan spent the whole time snuggling with her. Tegan loves her so much, he begs for her to hold him all the time. She is so patient with him.
Tiffany has lost her other front tooth. Yah! Tiff's favorite thing about the soccer games is seeing her friends. I love watching her play and interact with others. She is actually very entertaining.;)

Field Trip

2009-09-29T06:17:00.000-07:00

Friday we took a field trip to the Creation Museum in Petersburg,KY. This museum shares about the Bible and science from the christian perspective. You can click on the Creation Museum to go to the web site. My back ground hides that it is highlighted.
Dad went with us, so Tegan had his "Buddy" along. We celebrated Dad's Birthday while we were there. Happy Birthday, Dad!

The kids enjoyed the Dinosaur exhibit. They also were drawn to the sand that the Dino's stood in. So that was interesting keeping them out of the sand.

This petting zoo is the best!! Ever animal came to the kids and we could not get enough of these gentle animals. Even the camel would take his food from our hands very gentle. This is a Zonkey. We all enjoyed the Zonkey, but this is one of Tegan's favorite too. He really likes Zebra's. He fell in love with them when we stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge.

As you can tell we loved this area. Tegan's favorite was the pig. Tiffany and Tristan fell in love with the donkey. As we left the donkey put his ears down and followed us out as we left. I think he captured all our hearts. ( *disclaimer not all of us loved the petting zoo, Ronn does not like petting zoo's so he took pictures instead.):)

Disney Came To Us!!!

2009-09-24T07:05:00.000-07:00

Disney came to us!!! Right here in Bargersville, Indiana! It was great we did not have to get in a car or plane to travel all the way to Florida. It was a short 10 min. drive. Tegan the whole way insisted Daddy drive faster! The little town of Bargersville was all closed off. So we parked in a field and they shuttle us in on tractor. What an experience, this tractor did not go slow! Disney has a new movie coming out, A Christmas Carol. To publicize the movie they have set up a train for people to walk threw. They have the characters of the movie, models of the scenes and how they made the movie. The movie comes to theaters Nov. 6th, 2009.
Here is our long wait! Would we have waited if we did not psych the kids up? No Way! This is looking at just one end of the line. It was also hot! It really felt like Disney!! Long lines and freaking hot! :)

We are about to board the train, just 2 hours 45 min 54 seconds to wait for this one time experience.
The rooms where set up so beautiful. They had some interactive areas and how they made the movie. These pictures are just some of the characters that are in the movie.

I guess, it was worth the wait in line.:) It looks like it will be a great movie! I have more pictures, if you are interested in anything else let me know.

Our trip back to the car was filled with fun too. The kids loved the air rushing into their mouths. Reminds me of dogs sticking their heads out of the car window. :)

As you can tell Tiffany lost her front tooth. She had lost it a while back, but I think this is the first picture that you can see that she lost her tooth.

Tegan is into trains and planes. He loves this train shirt! I thought it was fitting to wear to the event.:)

Comment

2009-09-24T06:05:00.001-07:00

Thanks everyone for your comments! I had some technical difficulty on my end, in which I was unable to get my pictures to down load to my computer. Ronn helped me out.
While talking to a friend, I told her I thought I would take a break from blogging. I had gone such a long time from blogging, I thought maybe I should take a break. She convinced me other wise. Thanks!;)
I will try to have more pictures of my little Goonies too. As I think back to one of my favorite shows, this group is a lot like the characters. This is a very interesting group to watch as they play together. We may have a reality show on our hands.

Back Yard Gang

2009-09-23T09:20:00.000-07:00

Neighborhood friends! These kids have become really good friends over the summer.

Enjoying activities together.

Gymnastic buddies!

Twinkies!

All about Tegan

2009-09-23T08:17:00.000-07:00

Tegan's first time flying a kite! His kite went 400 feet in the air. Mom had the fun of bringing in the kite. Tegan had fun letting the kite out.

Loveland Castle in Ohio. Tegan has become a knight.

Tegan had a weekend with Mom and Dad just to himself. We all had fun, swimming and seeing sites and even eating out. Just the three of us.

Tegan climbing on our new swing set for the first time.

Tegan loves Homeschool Pre-school, he loves craft time!

School's In Session

2009-08-10T17:55:00.000-07:00

School has started for us on August 3rd, 2009. We have had a great start!

Have you wondered what we have been up to? We have been to the famous Jungle Jim's and loved it! We have been to Olentangy Caves in Ohio, lived to tell about it. Ronn is claustrophobic, and he made it okay. He just left the cave a little early.

Ronn celebrated his Birthday with an almost surprise party.:) Mom, said something to someone when she thought he couldn't hear at praise practice. I did pull off a successful surprise party on his 30th Birthday though.

Mike, my cousin from Iowa visited. He took the kids fishing and they loved fishing! They also loved, Mike!

We took the kids camping as a last family outing before school.

I'm ready for us to be back on a schedule.

Tristan's class room. This is on the first floor in the house. Grandma teaches Tristan's class. Mom has her teaching degree. She is using her own curriculum this year instead of something ordered.

Here is Tiffany's class, her school room is on the second floor. Mom and I are so proud of our classrooms. Tiffany's curriculum is through A Beka which is a class on the DVD. We love it! I love how the kids have bible class before school everyday that they watch from A Beka. I've heard our kids sharing with the neighbor kids about the bible lessons. They are so excited when telling the other kids. That's when all doubt if your doing the right thing goes away.

I should of taken a picture of Tegan and Jessie. We have a babysitter come and play with Tegan while we are at school. This has worked out awesome!

On The Road Again....

2009-06-26T12:15:00.000-07:00

Things we have done since Tiffany's Birthday. Ronn, Jody (Operations Director, CSI) and I went to Haiti. We saw the ministries in Haiti and meet with the CSI missionaries. I can't express how awed I am by God working in peoples lives and ministries. We have had the ending of the school year. The kids had a program and refreshments. Most memorable moment is with Mom concluding the program with " that's the end of the school year for 1909!" We all rolled on the floor with laughter. Mom never disappoints us with fun and entertainment. :)

We then on May 29th headed to Florida. We meet with friends from CSI in Merritt Island. We had such a good time. Visited a church that supports Haiti. They send a lot of medical teams to Haiti. They also have teams that have helped out the North America ministries.

We then headed to our already planned vacation to Disney World on the 31st. We stayed at the Animal Kingdom, Kidani Village. Wow, this is my favorite place to stay at Disney!! Tegan loved the Zebra's. We all loved watching the animals.

Ronn's parents meet us their with Jaden our niece. Jessie flew with us to help out with the kids while in Merritt Island.

Here are the kids at the pool at the Kidani Village.

Grandma and Grandpa Oren at Thunder Mountain. It was really hard to get a picture of all of us together. We always seemed to be in different part of the parks.

Here is my favorite picture of Jessie. This is our cool waiter, we loved his glasses.:)
The Disney vacation with the whole family was over on June 5th. Ronn had more CSI work so the kids and I stayed with Ronn in Florida. We have a friend that works at Disney and she gave us a great discount to stay at the Wilderness Lodge. So later that next week we stayed at Disney again. It was a really neat lodge too. Thanks Summer!!
Starting on the Haiti trip I had started listening to the Twilight audio series. I loved it! In Haiti I listened to New Moon, I was in Merritt Island listening to Eclipse and I was over looking a Savannah while listening to Breaking Dawn.

Father's Day weekend was awesome!! The Black's came and spent the weekend with us. Aaron and Ronn played golf at Legends golf coarse. On Sat night mom and I surprised Ronn and Dad with dinner out to Famous Dave's. Then on Sunday we had lunch together and let the men play Halo all afternoon. The kids gave Ronn Mickey coffee and Disney mints and Ronn also got a new electric razor.

Life doesn't stop getting crazy there. I have been helping get VBS ready for this weekend. Ronn and I also leave for Oklahoma this weekend, CSI work.

I think that catches us up from Tiffany's Birthday party.:) I'll try to blog soon.

Tiffany is 6 Years Old!!

2009-05-16T12:47:00.000-07:00

Tiffany just turned 6 yrs old. Happy Birthday Tiffany!! May 7 2003
Here is Tiffany at school. Grandma made her a special Birthday crown. It was the most beautiful classroom crown I had ever seen. Absolutely fitting for my princess.

We had her friend and family Birthday together. This also is fitting for Tiffany. The more people the better! Tiffany's theme this year was Hawaiian Luau. It has been raining a lot and very windy. So our Luau was inside.

Tiffany received so many beautiful gifts. We put a Birthday box together at Imagination Station. So she received a lot of gifts that she had picked out. I can't even begin to tell you how generous everyone was.

Here is the cake I made Tiffany. She wanted a beach theme. She picked out the people she wanted on her cake. It turned out really cute. I didn't know how it would turn out so I ordered a cake too. We had so many people that two cakes turned out being perfect.

Daddy served drinks from our Tiki Bar.:) He named the drinks Lilos Lava Flow and Stitches Serf Splash. They were fashioned with am umbrella. The kids loved it!
Grandma and Grandpa Oren with the kids.

Aunt Janet was a good sport too!

Thanks for coming to the party guys! Can't wait for Disney!

Quick Update

2009-04-28T12:04:00.000-07:00

Tristan is doing really well since he had his tonsils taken out. Last night was the first night he went with no medicine during the night. It has been a long and hard road of recovery, but he is finally feeling better.
Ronn is returning tonight from Jamaica. The kids have missed him a lot. Mostly Tegan, where's my daddy? I wanna go.
Jessie is helping us out with the kids. She has been a God send. This is the first time in a long time that I feel like I might be able to tackle my to do lists and still have the kids and house get the attention they deserve. Yeah!!!
Homeschooling is going really well. Grandma is teaching and doing an awesome job!! It is amazing how much the kids are soaking up. She teaches them in such a way that they actually get it. Tristan has had off while he has been sick.
I think that is a quick update. Next on our list is getting everything ready for Tiffany's Birthday party. She is turning 6 yrs old. She has a friend over right now. I am getting ready to take them to the park. Never a dull moment around here.

Tristan's Getting His Tonsils Out!

2009-04-20T18:56:00.000-07:00

Tristan is scheduled for surgery tomorrow to have his tonsils removed in the morning. (Tuesday) He is very afraid. He is mostly afraid of not knowing what to expect and worried about the pain. Please for the next couple of weeks lift him up in prayer.
Thanks everyone!!

Kids In Jamaica

2009-04-19T18:16:00.000-07:00

I wanted to share some more photo's from Jamaica. I put some photo's together of the kids who where together in Jamaica.
It was raining the day we went to the beach. It didn't seem to affect the kids. We had a good time bonding as a group.

Here the kids are washing their feet before lunch. They had been playing in the grass and had to wash up before they went inside. Pinto came out and dried the kids feet. That really touched me, how she went out of her way to take care of the kids.
Tristan and Sam had become good buddies.

Here Tiffany is having the best day of her life. We are shopping at the open market. Tiffany had a great time having every one's attention on her and all the jewelry. Oh,all the jewelry. Tiffany and I could have spent all day here. ;)
This is the day we traveled home. Breakfast went a little long for them. All the kids where excellent! They helped make this a great trip!

Happy Easter

2009-04-12T18:22:00.001-07:00

The kids made us this Easter card for Ronn and I. When we came down stairs to go to church the kids were their to greet us. This was made possable because of Jaden. She is very creative and thoughtful! The kids love her. In fact as I am writing this Tegan is saying "I want Jaden" over and over.

Here the kids are in their new Easter outfits. Tiffany has a tirra on her head and a very shiny diamond necklace on from Jamaica. I can't tell if Tristan likes getting his picture taken.:) Thanks Jaden for taking a family picture for us!
This one is on here for Kris. Mom finally made a great meal from start to finish. She cooked roast, carrots, and potatoes. For dessert she made this Easter egg cake. Ronn asked dad what he rated the dessert because Ronn wasn't going to have any. Dad said he would give it a "9"! We all laughed. So with that Ronn had to try it. You won't believe it Ronn gave the dessert a 9 also. I have to say mom did a good job! You would be so proud of her. :)

Easter Carnival

2009-04-11T19:11:00.001-07:00

Today was our Easter Carnival at church. I was in charge of the event. So this past week I had put in a lot of time getting all the finishing touches ready for the carnival. Thank you to my family for helping me out this past week. I couldn't of done it with out you! Here are a few of my favorite pictures and pictures of what took place at the carnival. Dad was the speaker for our children's moment. He did a great job! Thanks dad!! The kids all hunted eggs and then off to the carnival area. Here Tegan is squirting out sin. The kids soak a candle to get the flame to go out.
Jaden is here for the weekend. She has been a great help around here!

Here Tiffany is with some of her friends. They are working on their craft which is a Easter bunny frame. We had taken each child's picture and they could put it in their frame that they finished.

This is Tegan getting his hand painted. He thought his hand being painted would be better than his face.:)
Here is Tristan with one of the puppies. The animals where a big hit with all ages.

The kids had a good time and had a lot of favorites. Tiffany loved the face painting and the bounce house. Tristan loved the bounce house and the toss game. He was really good at the toss game and won a lot of prizes.:) Tegan loved the bunnies. He wanted to spend all his time outside with the animals.

Jamaica

2009-04-09T18:40:00.000-07:00

I'm back... Ronn has gone to bed so I don't think he will be blogging for me tonight. I am adding Jamaica pictures. We had a awesome time! I loved that the kids could go with us. I can't say enough good things about the trip.

These are pictures at the mission house. This house is so beautiful! The picture below is looking out at their drive way. It is so gorgeous!

This is a meeting area in the back of the mission house. Any direction you look is just amazing.

The cottage sits in the back yard too.

Jody and Pinto in the kitchen. They are a lot of fun! Here are some pictures of the staff in Jamaica.

The girls are getting ready for school. They are eating breakfast. I will have more pictures of the kids later.

Nick passing through the kitchen.

Here is John. I would love to leave it at that. Only, I could tell he really used his manners around me. So next time we meet, I hope he will be his funny and joking self. Bring it on John! :)

Jamie with the kids. We had the privilege of having Jamie in our home for a week in Dec. It was great to spend time together again. The kids love her!

Here is just a little bit from Jamaica. I wanted to show different angles of our trip. So this one I focused on the staff and house in Jamaica. I hope that one day your paths will cross with this great staff serving in Jamaica.

Jamaica Trip with Ronn

2009-04-07T20:24:00.000-07:00

Jamaica Trip with Ronn
Congratulations Ronn!!! Ronn accepted a new job with CSI. As of April 1st he is the new Executive Director. We found out the great news while we where in Jamaica. Jamaica was incredible!------

To Yvettes audience...I have just Hijacked her blog!!!!Thanks honey for the note above! What you do not know, Yvette, is that while you are trying to put Tegan to sleep, I am secretely letting everyone see some pictures of Jamaica! We will see how long it takes you to figure out I have hijacked your blog!!!!! RO

P.S I Love You

2009-03-26T18:18:00.001-07:00

Have you seen the movie P.S I Love You??? It's about a husband and wife and the husband dies from a brain tumor. Before he passes he lines up letters for her to receive after he is gone. I cry ed through the whole thing. I want to mention I watched this by myself, Ronn has never seen it.
Ronn left for Ireland on a missions trip on March 14th and was gone for a week. Ronn had left me a letter for each day he was gone. Each letter had how that day got it's name. Some days he had the kids and I on a hunt for where he left the gift. Some days it was for us to go out to eat. The last day he surprised me with flowers that were delivered and a card that had a message from him. It was all very thoughtful!! You could tell he put a lot of work and thought into each gift. The week ended up going by quickly. Ronn really made me feel special. This really reminded me of the movie. The man in the movie was from Ireland too. It was a little weird, I am glad to say he made it home safely.
Jessie stayed the week with me and helped out with the kids. She was a great help! Mom helped out a lot too. She taught Tristan that week, even had him spend a couple of nights.
I am happy to say that Ronn is taking us with him on this next trip. We are going to visit the missionaries in Jamaica. The kids and I are very excited. Tegan is going to stay with Grandma and Grandpa. He gets his own little vacation. He is going to be so spoiled.:)
We are all packed, the kids have their passports ready. We packed early so that I would hopefully keep remembering things that needed to be packed.
We are going to Jamaica with one of Ronn's co-workers and his family. We are also going with another great couple to see if they feel called into missions. Please pray for this couple that the Lord would lead and guide them. Thanks!

The Best Birthday Ever!!

2009-03-12T18:39:00.000-07:00

This has been the best Birthday ever! The funny thing is it started out with me upset about my Birthday. Ronn only smiled at me knowing that it was going to get better. He was right, it got a lot better! Ronn made me and the kids breakfast. At noon Ronn brought back lunch and the party started from there. Mom and Dad came and my friend Tami and her kids. I opened presents and got everything I asked for, and then some! See my Wii Fit??? Yeah!!! I was lead around the house with clues to find my Wii Fit. It was a lot of fun. Ronn really surprised me with everything today. I can't forget to mention the beautiful flowers and balloons that where delivered as well today. This evening we all went to Rascal's Fun Zone. We all had a lot of fun!! Ski Ball is Tegan's favorite!

This was a favorite by the older kids. The winner also received a lot of tickets.
Inside Rascal's is Baha Mini Bowling. Mom, Dad, Tami and her kids Joey and Hannah, and our kids, all played. Dad sprained his back playing arcade games with Tegan. That won't keep Dad down, he and Ronn had a friendly competition at bowling. Dad won even with a sprained back.

This is Tegan's first time bowling. Look at the little mini bowling balls we bowled with.
This is really all of our first time mini bowling. Tegan loved it, I would bring him again he liked it so much. He even snuck behind Tami at times and bowled for her.

Next was the go-carts in the indoor track. This was a lot of fun too.

This is Tami and Joey. Look out you might get run over!:)

Hannah was so sweet, she chose me to be her chauffeur.
Even with the kids in the go-carts the competition was on!
We even let mom drive one.:) This too should have been video taped! As far as we know no one was injured. She started out first and came in last.
The kids being CRAZY!!
This was such a great day! Ronn and everyone really made it a special day for me. Thanks you guys!!

I have this next picture on here for Mom. She kept staring at me while we ate dinner. I will be staring at my own kids to when they are 31 too. I know it's hard to think about what will your children will look like and be doing when they are in their 30's. So here is a picture Mom you can stare at on the computer.

I'm sorry this picture is so blurry. I just took it quickly with my camera so I could get it on my blog. At this late hour, this is as technical as I get. :) Here I am at 5 or 6 yrs old.

Homeschooling

2009-03-10T18:35:00.001-07:00

It's official!!Tristan is homeschooling and loves it! Here he is at the kitchen table studying math. Grandma Sorensen is his teacher. She has her teaching degree and loves teaching him. I am blessed to have her! Thanks Mom for all you do!
Last year we home schooled at the church. We have just decided to stay at the house to make it easier on me and the kids. So we are in the process of turning the formal dining room into Tristan's new class room. We are all really excited with this transition.
Tiffany will also start homeschooling. She will finish kindergarten at the school. It is only half of the day. Her school room will be in the loft. That way they are able to focus on their studies and not what the other one is doing. We will have bible and history, maybe even science together. We are so excited that it is working out and everyone has good attitudes.

Update

2009-03-04T03:52:00.000-08:00

Tristan came down with the flu and strep throat. We ended up at a specialist that said that we should have his tonsils removed. Due to insurance we have to wait until April. I am hoping he stays well and we can get by with not having them removed.
Since Tristan has been so sick we thought it would be best to start homeschooling him. So Tristan is an official homeschooler. He is very excited. He has wanted to be home schooled for the last 3 months.
Tiffany is finishing up Kindergarten this year and will be home schooled next year. She is feeling better. She missed a week of school due to the flu.
Tegan was sick as well but, is feeling better. He is a busy guy, lots to explore.
I am very proud of the kids! They have really been helping around the house and doing their chores. It feels like we have been through a lot with everyone so sick. It feels good to get back to normal.

Sickies

2009-02-17T13:37:00.000-08:00

I am way behind on updating. Tristan came down with Strep Throat again on Thursday. This is his third time having it. He is feeling better though.
Tiffany started running a high temp Sunday morning. Took her to the Dr Monday they ran a strep throat test and it came back neg. So they took a flu test. Sure enough it came back positive. She had the flu shot as well earlier in the season.
I have been feeling under the weather too. Tiffany has been so sick that she likes someone right beside her at all times. So Ronn and I have been busy tending to her and staying right beside her.
We have been babysitting Courtney for mom and dad. They are at Grandpa's 90th Birthday party over the weekend. Dad has called every day to check on his dog. Not the kids or us the dog. The dog is fine. She has it good we are all sick so we are all laying around. What more could a dog ask for.:) Oh, I might mention that Courtney has a sprained knee so the dog is on med's too. We are all sickies! I bet your glad your reading this and not at our house! :)
Not to sure when I will post again. I just havn't felt like touching the computer or the house. I would like to hibernate right about now.:)

Tiffany's Cheer Night

2009-02-09T16:10:00.000-08:00

Here Tiffany is at the high school getting ready to meet up with the cheer-leaders. She was so excited! All the girls whore their hair over to the side. It was really cute! Tiffany was not shy and did a great job. She is now wanting to join in a cheer leading group. I will probably look into it. She loves it so. Cheer leading has not ever been my thing. I played sports in school. I was in a couple of plays at school too. I think it's great that Tiffany can have something she really enjoys doing and thinking about.:)
I took other pictures, but I was sitting to far away. They came out really dark being in the gym.
It was a fun night for her. She didn't want to leave.

Cheer-Leading

2009-02-06T19:15:00.000-08:00

This week has gone bye quickly. Tiffany had cheer-leading practice tonight. The Franklin High School had a fundraiser for the elementary kids to join them at the next home game to cheer during the basketball game. Tiffany had a blast tonight. She will be doing her cheer tomorrow night at the boys varsity game. I will try to have pictures. I took pictures tonight only the pictures turned out to dark to post.
At practice tonight they even had mascot practice for the younger kids. It was so funny. They have a part in the cheer tomorrow as well. There is 5 of them I think and they all have a different mascot uniforms they are wearing.

Tiffany Lost Another Tooth!

2009-02-02T16:35:00.000-08:00

Tiffany lost another tooth!! She was upstairs watching t.v. Down she came with another tooth. I was quit surprised to say the least. Her two adult teeth are already poking through.
It was hard getting this picture. Tiffany did not want to hold still and Tegan was getting into the guitars. It's been crazy around here. Mostly due to Tegan, he is feeling better so he is now making up for all that time he was sick. :) He is feeling so much better. Praise God!
Tristan and Tiffany are doing well in school. They have made some great friends. I am so proud of them!

Dinner

2009-01-31T07:28:00.000-08:00

I should have taken pictures at the chef's house. It was a lot of fun. We had a fancy salad with pears and dried cranberries. Now if I made that it would taste horrible. Since I wasn't making it it tasted wonderful!
The main coarse was Shepard's pie. It was very good. Again I could not make it this fancy at all. So it was a true treat. She then sent us home with a full 9x13 Shepard's pie, it's in the freezer. She had also made us 2 batches of home made spaghetti sauce and noodles. We ate one of the batches of noodles the next night. It was very yummy too. It had homemade meatballs in it.
She is actually a personal chef. She has her own business you can check out her web site here whats4dinner . She is tempting us to become a client.:)

Winter Day

2009-01-28T13:14:00.000-08:00

We are enjoying being snowed in today. We have a foot of snow here. No school today too. So we have enjoyed making forts and sledding behind our house on some really neat hills. They are just the right size for our kids. Tegan has loved sledding down them as well.

It's really cold so we stay out short times and then go back out again after we have dethawed.:) I've been through one can of hot chocolate as well. Tonight we are going to eat at our neighbors house. I'm really looking forward to it. She is a chef.:)

A Special Visit

2009-01-24T19:46:00.000-08:00

Uncle Ryan, Aunt Tricia and kaden are visiting. They are here in Indiana to help take care of Trista. I will have more on Trista at a later time when the family knows more. Please contiunue to pray for her!
Aunt Tricia is not feeling well so she could not make the meeting place. We decieded to meet half way so they did not have to drive so far. By the way Tricia and Ryan have a new baby girl on the way check out her blog! We missed seeing you Tricia!
So this afternoon we got to see Uncle Ryan, Kaden and Grandpa Oren. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedules to see us!

Tiffany Lost Her First Tooth

2009-01-23T16:46:00.000-08:00

She lost her tooth as she walking out of school to the car. Thank goodness she did not panic! She had it in her hand and was excited! I asked her if she had wiggled it or moved it and she said no it just fell out. I wish all my teeth had come out that easy.
She wanted to first call Aunt Tammy and Shelby. Not sure what state you guys are in. I told her I would put it on the blog so that Tammy and Shelby would know about it that way. So, hope you are browsing the net and see this.:)

Update On Trista

2009-01-21T06:17:00.000-08:00

Here is some news on Trista. This is an e-mail I recieved from Carolyn, Trista's grandma.
The tumor was removed intact and did not rupture. This type of tumor is rare at any age. They do not know exactly what type of tumor it is and it is being sent to different research universities to try to determine what type of tumor it is. They did take some lymph nodes to be tested.
A pediatric oncologist will see Trista tomorrow. He will determine the best type of treatment to be given. We are looking at chemotherapy and/or radiation. Trista will be at St. Vincent's until Thursday or Friday.
Once again thank you for your thoughts, prayers and encouragement.

Pray for Trista

2009-01-19T06:31:00.000-08:00

Trista our neice is having surgery today to remove a tumor. Please pray for her and her family.
Thank you!

Leo's Sick Too

2009-01-17T06:35:00.000-08:00

Here is Leo's new favorite spot. We had to take him to the Dr on Thursday night. He had a huge open wound on his leg. We almost have the whole family on medicine. Tiffany , Molly and Reese are the only healthy ones right now. :) This guy has some major pain medicine too. We'll Leo has been turned into a house cat until his leg is better. He misses being outside, even if it's only for 10 minutes. Yeah, you can tell he's suffering from being inside.:)
Yeah, this may gross you out. He had such a big whole in his leg they had to put a drain in. This comes out on Tuesday.
It's official! We have a cat we are keeping! This guy has cost us lots of money.:)

I took this picture earlier in the week and couldn't resist had to put it on too. Reese is very good around the kids. Here is her story.

Reese's mommy had left her when she was born. I found Ree in the shed corner with her umbilical cord rapped around it's foot. She was very cold and dirty. I cut the umbilical cord warmed her up and made the mommy feed her. The mommy kept feeding her and her sister I also found. Tegan and the kids visited Ree all the time. The kitten would let Tegan carry it around by the neck. So she has always been a good kitten. She does not scratch or bite the kids. She likes the torment they put her through.:) The holding, chasing her around to be the first to hold her. She even let's Tiffany give her stroller rides.
We where going to bring Reese and her sister with us when we moved. Only when we went back to the farm house the other kitten was gone. So Leo is the lucky one who came along.

Sick Kids

2009-01-13T13:20:00.000-08:00

Well it turned out that Tristan has Strep throat. I took him to the Dr on Monday since he still had a fever. It didn't even cross my mind that he could have strep. He is doing better now with medicine.
Tegan is sick as well. The Dr gave him an antibiotic as well. Only he has the worst tasting medicine ever and will barely take it. Meaning he spits it out as soon as he gets it in there. I don't blame him, if I knew it tasted that bad I would of asked for it in pill form and added it to food.
Tristan is well enough to go to school tomorrow. Tegan is still pretty sick. I'm just waiting for Tiffany to get sick next.
With all the sleep loss I have had, I am feeling pretty miserable too. My throat is feeling a little scratchy and my head is hurting.
Tristan has some school projects due as he returns to school tomorrow so I am off to help him. Hope everyone has a great day! Thanks for stopping bye!!

2009-01-10T06:38:00.001-08:00

While Tristan was at school the younger two got to play outside in the snow on Wednesday. I was hoping to see more snow today as the forecast called for more snow. Only we had more rain.
Here is Tiffany throwing snow balls at me. I wasn't fast enough to get a snowball in flight with the camera.
Tegan loves being outside. He loved making snowballs and toddling about. He has gotten his outside clothes on all by himself so he can go outside more. I ran out of gloves for him that day. He kept getting them to wet to wear. At the end of the day though he would only stay outside a minute and come back in informing me that it is "COLD". Our outside cats kept finding themselves in with our revolving door. I was a little late at getting the cat and Tegan playing together. It was really cute!

To think Leo all his life has been a barn cat. He would sleep on the wood pile inside the barn. I think he likes his new living conditions. He was very content to look at the snow from inside the house. I am always amazed at how close he stays to the house and garage. He is a really good cat.

Tristan had gotten really sick last night. He had a really rough night. He seems like he is doing better this morning.

Future Rock Star

2009-01-08T07:47:00.000-08:00

Tiffany is so excited to finally get a guitar, not just a guitar an electric guitar. It was a daddy, daughter outing. They went out to supper and guitar shopping. Tiffany has been begging for a guitar for at least a year if not more. You can tell how excited she is in the picture. Tiffany also has a loose tooth that she discovered on this trip so it was double excitement. Everyone had to try out her cool guitar.
Thanks Tiff for sharing your guitar. You Go Girl! Future Rock Star!!

Tristan's Friend Party

2009-01-06T13:43:00.001-08:00

Tristan had his friend party on Sunday. We had an awesome turn out. The kids behaved and enjoyed themselves. It was a really good group of kids.

The kids sang Happy Birthday to Tristan. Here is the second volcano cake I made. I really liked making this cake.
Here is Jessie, one of our helpers at the party. I think Ronn is being threatened.:)

The volcano was a hit. Each child got to take a turn putting in the active ingredients.

The kids all enjoyed the party. They played all the games I had, but would have enjoyed just playing the whole time in Tristan's room. :)

Happy New Year & Happy Birthday Tristan

2009-01-02T14:16:00.000-08:00

Tristan is 8!! I can't believe my baby is 8 already. He is a New Years baby and was the first born at the hospital that day. We did not receive anything for being the first born at the hospital. Tristan an hour after he was born started to bleed in his lungs. Tristan was rushed to St Vincent NICU. St Vincent got to the little hospital just in time. They told us if 15 min more had gone by he would not be with us. We where told that Tristan would be in the hospital 6 months to a year. Tristan went home 23 days later!! God had healed him. We serve an AWESOME God!!! Tristan has such a sweet spirit about him. He is one in a million.
Tristan had a Dinosaur themed party. This is his family party and the friend party is to come on Sunday. I made a volcano birthday cake with dinosaurs placed around the cake. This cake tasted sooo good!

Show me the MONEY!!!Our homemade volcano was a blast!!

We had a great New Year's day! I am so thankful to be a celebrating this Birthday with Tristan. Each Birthday is so special with each of our kids. We are so blessed!

Have a great New Year!!

Merry Christmas!!

2008-12-25T18:12:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas! We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
The Orens!
God Bless!!

It's Been 2 Long!!!

2008-12-21T19:19:00.001-08:00

This is just some of things I have missed blogging about. Being to busy is an understatement for the last couple of weeks. We put up our Christmas tree right before Thanksgiving so everyone could enjoy it. It also helped since we were in the middle of moving to get it up and clean the mess up all at once. Thanksgiving was fun! Mom never fails at having interesting food and fun conversation at the table. We missed Kris, Tammy and Shelby very much at Thanksgiving this year! Kris was very sick over Thanksgiving, but is feeling much better now.

Well, here it is, the dressing. This is always a topic of conversation. What is mom going to do to the stuffing this year? This has a nice burnt, I mean crisp, crunchy top. Other than that it was really good. This picture is for Kris so he could see what stuffing he missed this year.

This is Tiffany's new kitten we brought with us from the farm house. Tiffany named her Reese. This has added lots of fun to the house. Tristan picked out an orange cat from the farm as his cat. He has named him Leo. I don't have any pictures of Leo yet. I will have to start taking pictures of him and Tristan together.
This is Jamie Barton she is a missionary from Jamaica. We all loved having her stay with us! We didn't want her to leave. She was a blessing to our family. She really helped Tegan keep his mind off his head/stitches that were really bothering him.

This is our family spending time together. Ronn had just gotten back from Haiti.(I mean literally, he was home maybe an hour or less before we started to make cookies.) Ronn was in Haiti for a week. So the kids wanted to bake and frost sugar cookies. It was a lot of fun and a mess at the same time! Ronn being gone has helped me appreciate all he does for us. We all really missed him this past week.

My little man just turned 2!!! We are so blessed to have this little guy in our lives. To think of all that he has been through. He is feeling really good, now that the stitches have fallen out. I was truly amazed at how good he acted during his Birthday. The surgery has helped him so much.

Thank you everyone for coming to Tegan's Birthday party! He loves all of his gifts!

Happy Birthday Tegan! I love you very much!!!

So that is a little taste of what has happened here. I also last Monday started my new part time job. I have my old job back at Tabernacle Christian church as the children's director. I was fortunate that Tab had my job still open. I love working with the kids.

Pictures From Last Week

2008-11-25T05:42:00.000-08:00

We took a better picture of Tegan's scar. This is Sunday the 16th the night we got him home. I will update the blog as he heals. Here are some of our visitors. Tegan loves Jaden! It really made his day to see her.

Grandpa Sorensen visiting with the family.

Grandpa Oren visiting. Thanks Grandpa for feeding the dog and cats while we are away.
Aunt Janet visiting. Thanks for coming over and cheering us up!
The Barr family visited Tegan too. Thanks everyone for showing Tegan how much you care for him!

Grandma spent the week with us while Ronn was gone. She helped entertain the kids. Stephen our neighbor boy was over a lot visiting too. Grandma is blowing bubbles for the kids.
Here Tegan is this morning. He is feeling really good. He has not needed to take Tylenol yet today. Yeah! We are Grandpa and Grandma's house while I get some computer work done. He loves spending time here!

2008-11-24T10:01:00.000-08:00

I am at work with Ronn today. I really enjoy helping out in the office. I have some down time so I thought I'd update you. I am kicking myself, I forgot my camera at home. I will try hard to get some pictures up soon.
It has been over a week now from Tegan's surgery. If he didn't have he scar on the back of his head you would never know he had any surgery. Praise God!! After his surgery I thought we where in for a long recovery. He is still very clingy, but is getting better.
Tiffany was invited to a birthday party this weekend by a boy in her class. I was the only parent to stay.:) She is a little clingy too. She had a really good time. I am so thankful they invited her. Tiffany is feeling better about school now. The dropping off and picking her up is still very scary for her.
Tristan woke up this morning crying, not wanting to go to school. We worked it out though. He is a spy today and is going to find the real problems at school. I know! Hey, I think it worked.:) I talked with his teacher on the phone today and she had no idea he was so unhappy. She is moving him to a different seat and trying to find him a buddy. The teacher was very nice about the whole thing. I hope my spy comes home wanting to stay in his class.
Ronn had an awesome week. I hope he is able to blog about it. He was with the missionaries from CSI this past week. They all met in Florida and had workshops and a lot of free time to get to know each other better.
For me I had an incredibly stressed out week. Even though Tegan is better, there are times he screams and cries a lot. I hated to see my kids go to a new school scared and having bad days. We got through it though. I would have lost the other half of my mind if my Mom and Dad weren't there to help out. Thanks Mom and Dad!!! I knew it was going to be stressful due to all the odd circumstances. So with that my time is up and I have to go back to work. Hoping that this week is a better one. :)

Thank You!!!

2008-11-20T06:27:00.001-08:00

Thank you to everyone for your prayers!! Tegan is doing so well! He is eating and sleeping great! This morning when he woke up you could tell he was in little pain. It has been a stressful, but good recovery since we have been home. It truly is amazing how little ones recover so quickly.
I am sorry not to update. We have no Internet at the house yet and I have not been able to get away to update anyone.
God is good! Thank you again for your prayers.
Tristan and Tiffany starting a new school has also been stressful on us this week. Tristan is having a hard time with the kids in his class. Tristan has a lot of naughty kids in his class.
Tiffany has anxiety at the beginning of class. The students are very nice in her class so this has helped a lot. I would really appreciate it if you would hold Tristan and Tiffany in your prayers.
!!!THANK YOU!!!

Tegan Update #3

2008-11-16T09:26:00.000-08:00

Last night Tegan's morphine med's made him to relaxed and he had to have oxygen last night. He is starting to become spunky. Every couple of hours he would wake up and start to take out his oxygen and take off all his wires. He would do this quietly, not fast so I wouldn't come right over.

I really appreciate all your prayers! Yesterday at 3:30pm he was playing and eating.

I thought maybe he had gone down hill when the oxygen went on last night. I was wrong. Tegan ate some breakfast and has been drinking well. Today he really wanted to be held. As I was holding him his Ivy started bleeding. So the nurse called the Dr. and they said since he was eating and drinking the nurse could keep it out. He now is taking all his med's orally.

The Dr came in a little bit ago. Since he is taking all his med's orally she said if we like we can take him home today. We have to make sure he eats before 4:00pm. If he eats and drinks well he will be discharged. He will still be really tired, but as long as we keep up what we have been doing here in the hospital she thinks it will be okay. It is also a plus that we now live 30min from the hospital. He is not eating all that great of a lunch. He fell a sleep. So keep praying he keeps eating so we can tend to him at home.

His stitches look really good. The Dr did an awesome job! So we have 3 hours before we know if he can go home. Tegan is in a good sleep. I think he is catching up on sleep since he has the ivy out. I hope he wakes up soon and eats. I will keep ya posted.

Eating his crackers yesterday

This is a picture taken from today. He is sitting up and eating gold fish. He had Daddy helping him. Notice his bandage is gone! :)

Here is Tegan' s scar.

Tegan update #2

2008-11-15T08:09:00.000-08:00

The Dr just stopped in the room. He is in a lot of pain still so he will spend the night in the ICU again tonight. The hope is then tomorrow that he will then get a regular room. He is needing to drink more. So if you are reading this, the new request for prayer is that he feels well enough to start drinking more fluids.
Mom and Dad are here now to give give me a lunch break.

Tegan

2008-11-15T06:17:00.000-08:00

I am so glad this night is over. I have never been so happy to see time fly bye!
Tegan is in and out of sleep. He still calls out for me when he wakes up. Every time he awakes he looks afraid. I think he is also afraid to cry and cough due to his head hurting. He is also frightened anytime he is moved. Which means he does not move his head at all. They have up the pain med's to every two hours to get on top of the pain. The nurse was very good last night. His heart rate was up all night. They think due to the pain. So that is why they are giving the med's more often. So far this morning his heart rate looks better and he seems to be sleeping comfy. His room is kept very dark and quiet.
Daddy and Tiffany stopped by this morning. It was good to see them. When Tegan saw them I thought his heart rate would go up. It went down! Having them here really relaxed him. Tiffany did a great job being quiet. Keep up the prayers!!!! I'll up date you when I have more.

Tegan's Surgery

2008-11-14T16:15:00.000-08:00

The day started early for us. We had to be at Riley at 6:00am. Tegan did such a good job waiting and getting all the procedures done. He went to get an MRI done first, to see if he had any spinal complications. Praise God, he didn't have anything wrong.Everyone was light hearted. I made it with out much crying. Yeah!

Having Tammy and Shelby's company really helped. Thanks you guys!!

Tegan is resting peacefully. He wakes up now and then calling out mom. The Dr said she was glad that we had the surgery. His little brain was compacted, needing the decompression in the lower part of his skull. His brain had swelling, even his veins were engorged. So the decompression was a success and we had all made the right choice for Tegan.

Please pray for pain relief and that he will have a quick recovery. Thank you again for all the prayers!!

Our New House & Tegan

2008-11-13T17:49:00.001-08:00

Here is a picture of our house. I didn't realize how much I missed living here. I love this house! God has been showing us over and over that we are on the right track with moving back. We have moved in and registered for school. We have been blessed with great teachers again. The kids will start back on Tuesday. Please be praying for them as they start a new school and meeting new friends.

The house is taking shape and looking really good. I am actually thankful to have moved so fast. It has really kept my mind off the surgery. This week would have been really hard on me. This past couple of hours I have tried hard not to cry.

Tegan will be going into Riley first to have an MRI 7:30am then at 9:30am his Chiari Decompression will begin. This will take 3-5 hours. He will then stay in the hospital 3-4 days. Thank you to everyone for all your prayers!!!!! You know who you are and we really appreciate you!! Please continue to pray and pray for a quick recovery so we can get him home right away!! I will try to update this blog as much as I can. Want to learn more about Chiari click on Lacy's blog. Thanks!

Moving

2008-11-11T09:50:00.000-08:00

That's right we are moving. I have heard a lot of people say, "but you just got here". We where going to close on our house in Franklin, IN on the 30th of October. 2 hours before closing we got the phone call that it all fell through. The agent said it was very unusual for it to happen the way it did.
A couple of weeks before closing it looked like we where needing to move back to Franklin area. So we had been praying that if we where to move back that the house would fall through. We knew then when the agent called that no doubt we are to move back. Ronn's job has changed a lot so he is able to work from home some of the time. He is traveling and speaking a lot on weekends. Which has been fun for all of us to go on as well. We will need more help from my parents though, with Ronn speaking more. So this actually works out great to be closer to my parents. Tegan has really missed his Pa.:) We will live only 10 min from my parents.
Franklin is also closer to the Indy airport which helps with Ronn's job too. The funny thing is we like to move. It has never bothered us that God calls us to different places for any reason. We love meeting new people. We also like that we can us our gifts God has given us
I have a picture of our house I will post later. I can't find right now. I have miss placed with all the moving boxes. So we have been very busy packing.
Well my child just got a permanent marker and marked himself and the wall. That's my signal I have to get off the computer.
Tegan's surgery is Friday. Please be praying for him. I hope to post something before then. If not I am sure you will understand. God Bless!

Revival Weekend

2008-11-08T06:51:00.000-08:00

I haven't had a post in a while. I have been very busy. I will explain on the next post why I am so busy.
This weekend though it's Revival Time! Ronn and my brother Kris are leading revival at my dad's church, Providence Christian Church. Last year at this time at Providence Christian the boys lead the revival. It's neat to have all three of the guys lead the services.
So this weekend we are all at mom and dad's house. We have been laughing so hard that our stomach's hurt. I have even had tears. We mostly have great stories that mom has provided us with. Mom you really need to write a book or start blogging all these stories!! Think of how your grandchildren will benefit. They will not have to wonder why they are the way they are. :)

Halloween Fun!

2008-11-01T16:46:00.000-07:00

The kids started the festivities off with a costume parade at school.
Tiffany is a Spy Kid from the movies Spy Kids.

Tristan is a pirate. He had two costumes this year and ended up be able to wear both of them this Halloween. The parade was so much fun. I really enjoyed watching all the kids.

That right you saw Pastor Kris pregnant. No one knew, he just started showing. He actually is caring a little low. I think he might deliver before Tonya.

We then headed over to the Fall Festival at Farmland friends church. The kids enjoyed playing games and making crafts. Tegan is pumpkin bowling.

The kids are playing find the needle(candy) in the hay stack.

We topped the night off with Trick or Treating with Maggie and Bill. The kids had Halloween fun from 1:30pm-8:00pm.

Happy Halloween

2008-10-31T07:37:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we went to Columbus, Ohio. Ronn went to talk to the Grove City UMC pastors. So they invited the whole family up for all there activities. We went to the Columbus Zoo. Sunday night they had Trunk or Treat. They had about 200 cars lined up in there parking lot. The kids had a great time! Tegan could not resist he had to pop a sucker in while he trick or treated. :)
Tristan dressed up as Yu-Gi-Oh, Tiffany is a Spy Kid, Tegan is a Ninja. I will have more pictures of our Halloween night later. :)

Picking Pumkins

2008-10-24T08:58:00.000-07:00

We took the kids on an outing. First we went to Memory Lane Farms to check it out. This is a new orchard close to our home. Wow, it had the best apple cider!
We then headed to Jacobs Family Orchard. The kids had a great time!

They had a haunted house bouncer. I thought it looked scary to go into, but the kids had no problem.

The rule for picking out pumpkins this year was they had to be able to carry or hold it. If not we would have brought home the biggest pumpkins they had. :)
We ended the day with an old fashioned bottle of root beer. Homemade apple donuts, Carmel apples and our pumpkins. I already can't wait for next year!

The Kids New Fort

2008-10-19T18:46:00.000-07:00

The kids have a new fort out in the woods.

I tried to get pictures so you could see how big the area is. It is a really neat fort, put together with brush and a tarp. Two large tree stumps are areas in their house.

I have loved watching the kids use their imaginations. I also love that they still need us for a little longer to be around and help them. I know the time is coming when they will no longer need us so close by.

Here's the little man. This is the mood he was in that night. He looks like he doesn't feel well. He didn't play with with his siblings. He more less just stood there. He helped daddy with the fire. He loves to help get the fire going.

Butter Anyone?

2008-10-17T10:49:00.001-07:00

That's right when this little guy gets quiet he is usually doing something he shouldn't. In this case it was the butter. I had left a brand new seal still on the butter. I didn't think he could even open it. I was wrong. His skin is nice and soft now. :)

1 More Blanket

2008-10-17T10:38:00.000-07:00

I need to add one more blanket. This is Tristan's other favorite blanket. He sleeps and wears this one around the house. Aunt Tammy gave this to Tristan at one of our Christmas's. I can't remember what year though. I think it was it 2004. He loves it! He has been asking me if I think Aunt Tammy will make him another blanket this year for Christmas. Hint, hint he would love another blanket Tammy.:)

Blankets

2008-10-15T10:17:00.001-07:00

Blankets are a big part of our lives around here. This is Tristan's blanket, he became attached to it when he was just 6 months old. It was a gift at Tristan's baby shower from Aunt Connie and Uncle Tom. Tristan had recently misplaced the blanket and had everyone searching for it. He begged Grandma Oren to make him another one. It was hard to tell him it's not that simple. We did find it. It was in Tiffany's room.

Here is Tiffany's purple blanket. She attached herself to this blanket at 3 months old. This blanket Grandma Sorensen bought her.

Tegan has not attached himself to a blanket or anything. He has attached himself to me. :)So with his upcoming surgery I thought it would be a good idea if he had a blanket to help him through this time. We took a special trip to town so he could pick out a blanket. He thought this was a good idea. It was difficult for him to decide until he saw this one. He loves balls and once he saw this he loved it. I do hope this will help comfort him.

Pancakes

2008-10-14T15:52:00.000-07:00

Thank you Uncle Kris, Aunt Tammy and little one for our Mickey pancake shaper. We have been using it and wanted to give you an official THANK YOU!!! Have a Magical Day!

On A Walk With My Peeps!

2008-10-13T13:10:00.000-07:00

Here is Tegan in his jogger. I have been walking down our country road about a mile in all. Isn't he so cute!!Here is Molly, she's my girl. She follows me every where around the house and outside. I love not needing a leash for her.

Here are the three cats that follow us as we walk. They hide in the corn field if a car comes by. The funny things they do as we walk is cry out if I am to far ahead. When they get tired they try to lay down in front of the stroller. I try to walk slower for them, but no way am I stopping. I stop at the end of the road to give the horses attention. :)

As I was walking today I called my Mom. I told her I was walking and she heard me tell the cat and dog to get over off the road. To her surprise, she asked, "the cats follow you"? I answered "yes"? Well, aren't you embarrassed?? ( I really don't know how to answer that.) No!

So now I am wondering why should I be embarrassed? Maybe Mom can you tell me why should I be embarrassed? Heee, honestly. Heee heee :) This should be good!

I Forgot My Camera!

2008-10-11T17:51:00.000-07:00

I wanted to have pictures of today but, forgot my digital camera. (I always carry a disposable one in the diaper bag for days like today.) At 8:30am we rushed out of the house hit a garage sale before all of our stops. We told Tracy, a friend of mine, that we would stop at her garage sale. Tracy has a hair salon in her home, and it is on Hwy 32 going towards Winchester out of Farmland.

We then rushed over to Muncie for Tumbling class. We then had lunch at McDonald's, they have monopoly game going on now. We are such suckers.:) It had to be quick lunch due to the kids being in a parade. Farmland Volunteer Fire Department sponsors a "Fire Prevention" day that has a parade and then games, prizes and a dance. We made it right on time, which I was a little stressed over making it on time. The kids loaded on the floats. This is where I would have the pictures. Tristan in a red pick-up truck with fellow Boy Scouts loaded with lots of candy and the older boys in uniform.

Tiffany and I where on the Girl Scouts hay wagon loaded with a ton of candy too. The girls wore the plastic red fire hats and all the girls and mom's had red or white shirts on. The trailer had red and white steamers and balloons. We have the best troop leaders. I fill so blessed to have such great Scout leaders for our kids.

You wouldn't think that in Oct we would have had such a hot day 80's. We where very hot on our floats. The funny thing that happened to us in the parade is a train went through and cut us off from the rest of the groups. So the parade was stalled for a while.

The rest of the day we spent in our woods cleaning up. I love it out there. Working out there brings back fond childhood memories. It also brings to mind some of my favorite movies, Narnia, First Knight, Pride and Prejudice, Secret Garden. It was a nice day for day dreams.:)

Family Time

2008-10-10T18:15:00.000-07:00

Tonight we went out into our woods. The loggers have just finished cutting and moving about 30 trees. They have left some nice trails for us. So we are going in and starting to clean up all the paths. So once we got a good pile of limbs, we started a fire. We couldn't let that fire go without roasting something on it! There's my scouts.:) She is so brave, Tristan didn't venture very far from me. He was worried about hunters.

The kids are eating hot dogs and chips.

Roasting our marshmallow's for smores. Mmmmm!

Here is for our fellow peep lovers. We roasted our Halloween peeps to see how good that would be. They get very hot fast so be careful, but you have to a least try it once! They are good!

We saw two snakes, yes, I screamed. A cute little toad that peed on me twice.

We had a lot of fun walking through the woods. We could not of done all this either if it wasn't for our gator. Did you see all that stuff we had out there? I love that thing!

Update On Tegan

2008-10-09T03:16:00.000-07:00

Tegan had his Neurosurgeon appointment. We talked with the Dr and thought it would be in Tegan's best interest to have Surgery. He will have surgery Friday, Nov. 14 at Riley hospital for children. He will stay in the hospital 3-4 days. Please pray for his recovery!
Grandma and Grandpa Sorensen came to the appointment. It was a nice surprise for Tegan. He soaked up all the attention.
I will have more later.

Girl Scouts

2008-10-07T06:42:00.000-07:00

Girl Scouts was held at the Parker City Fire Department. The girls started with a craft then moved outside to say all their pledges.

The girls watched a movie on what to do if your house is on fire. Then they looked at all the fire trucks.

Here is the new fire truck only 2 months old. This fire truck cost 206,000 the fire dept raised the all the money through fundraisers.

They where able to squeeze every girl inside the fire truck for a ride. Make that two rides.:)

Here the girls are with fire fighter Alan. As you can tell the weather was beautiful!

We have a great Girl Scout leader! She is really on top of everything and makes sure everyone is having a great time. She is doing a great job!!

Sunday

2008-10-06T06:57:00.000-07:00

Sunday was a day of relaxing. Ronn went to early service and then went to pick up Tristan from Grandma's. I wasn't feeling very good so we stayed home and watched our church service on the computer. I must say it was awesome to stay home and worship. It was so neat to sing with Tiffany the praise band. Pastor Kris's sermon was excellent! How To Be Rich! Not how to become rich, but how to be rich. You should check out his blog he has a post on this topic.
So today, Monday I get to do fun stuff. I get to clean the house and clean up after Tegan. Tonight is Boy and Girl Scouts. Tristan's den will meet in Parker city and Tiffany is going to the Parker City fire station. I will have pictures up tomorrow.
Have a great day!

Our Busy Week

2008-10-04T14:28:00.000-07:00

This week was a very busy week for us. Monday, Haiti missionary's came in to have a meeting with Jim and Ronn. I was able to meet them and go to lunch with Ronn. Tiffany had gymnastics on Monday. We are trying to find a good fit for Tiffany in gymnastics. We then had Girl Scouts on Monday night as well.
Wed. was a packed day too. My mom came up to watch Tegan and the kids while I helped Ronn at work. I helped label items before they where loaded onto a semi to be shipped to Haiti for the mission programs their. CSI had bought 2 years worth of food as well as personal items and medical items. We ended up not able to get everything loaded on the semi. Mostly soap for the medical clinic. Tiffany had gymnastics that night. Which we found a good gymnastics program to enroll her in. Yeah!
Thursday the kids had friends over after school. Then hair appointments for the kids.
Friday the kids had half a day of school. We went to Franklin area to go to the Chiro and my hair apt. Great news as well is that we have an offer on our house in Franklin.:) We are hoping that everything goes thru on that. Tristan is spending the weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Sorensen.
Saturday Ronn has been at an CSI board meeting all day. In which I volunteered to pick up the lunch and have it ready for them. The kids and I went shopping, now Ronn is at his parents with the kids having hot dogs and s'mores while I get the house cleaned and catch up on everything from this busy week. I thought of my blog so many times, only family became the priority, not to mention all the homework.

I had forgotten my camera earlier in the day. I wish I had pictures of all the food. I took this late in the afternoon. Ronn taking some items back into CSI that did not fit in the semi.
This semi was packed top to bottom, no room wasted! I do pray everything gets there safely.

Ronn's Home From Ireland

2008-09-29T06:56:00.000-07:00

Ronn is home from Ireland! We are all happy he is back! Check out his pictures from Ireland on his blog http://www.ronnsblog.com/.

He brings back the neatest items! This is a package of assorted chocolates!!

He brings the kids neat items as well. Tegan has gotten a musical instrument each trip now. It is a hit. As you know Tegan loves music. Ronn has spoiled me too, with jewelry and perfume.:)

Tiffany's First Field Trip

2008-09-24T11:29:00.000-07:00

Tiffany's first time riding the school bus. She is sitting with her good friend Tobi. We are on our way to Dougherty Orchard in Cambridge City.

Our tour took us to the refrigerator where they make the apple cider. Mmmm..

Here we are picking apples in the orchard. It is so hard just picking one apple!

Tiffany and Tobi enjoying their apple. Next we had our lunch.

Grandma Sorensen and Tegan joined us on the field trip. Tegan loved the pumpkins, and the petting zoo.

Here is Tiffany's class all 18 of them. :) Mrs Kritsch is her teacher, she is doing a great job with the kids!

First Day Of Fall

2008-09-22T13:37:00.001-07:00

Ahhh, the signs of fall. This is our neighbors harvesting the soy beans. This is the field that is east of our house. We have a tree line that separates our property. It might look like fall, but it does not feel like fall. It is 83 degrees outside today.

We went to Red Lobster for lunch today with Daddy. Tegan got see and feel one of the lobsters. I couldn't resist I had to touch too.

Farm Cats

2008-09-20T06:30:00.000-07:00

Here are our cats we have inherited. I love having outside cats. My mom always told me growing up that when I was on my own I could have as many cats as I wanted. So here they are.:) I also find this funny due to Ronn always putting a limit on animals too. Did I mention I love life right now.:)

This orange guy is my favorite! I have always loved orange cats. My very first orange cat I had growing up was named Leo. I am still finding the right name for this guy.

This is fluffy, she is the only long hair cat we have outside. She had kittens 2 weeks ago. May she never have kittens again. She is not very bright.

I need someone techi around for this one. I can't figure out how to get the picture the right way. IF it really bothers you leave a comment and I will have Ronn help me. You can just leave a comment too. I like knowing more than my mom reads my blogs. Hi. Mom! :)

This little guy is one of our favorites, Tristan has named him Trooper. He follows us everywhere and has a great personality.

The other kittens love him too. There mother has gone missing for awhile so he has stepped in and lets them nurse him. Yes, I said him. The kittens suck on his hair. It is a sight!

Here are two out the three kittens in a litter. They are always playing.

We have a total of 4 new baby kittens on the farm. Free kittens!!

This is Princess. Yes, she really is a drama queen. She posed for each one of her pictures. She would make a great cat for a commercial. She is the mommy of two new kittens.

She looks like a bobcat from a distance. Which I have mistaken her for when she was pregnant.

Here is my boy I love driving around! (This is his favorite Chucky Cheese cup.)

He has the best walk. He walks very macho, I wonder who he has been watching?:)

I love this little guy!

Little Miss Muffet

2008-09-18T13:31:00.001-07:00

In Tiffany's class today they are to dress up as a Nursery rhyme.Tiffany is Little Miss Muffet. Before school we acted the rhyme out. We had a lot of fun! Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet,

Eating curds and whey,

There came a big spider

And sat down beside her,

And frightened Miss Muffet away.

Here is the stage crew, Tristan as the spider. Lead role Tiffany as Little Miss Muffet.

Things I Love

2008-09-18T13:31:00.000-07:00

I Love my Life! Since last night I have been thinking of all the things I love in my day to day schedule. I am very lucky, because I am a stay home mom.
I LOVE taking the kids to and from school.
I LOVE taking Tegan and the kids for rides on the gator.
I LOVE it when Ronn gets home so I can hear about his day.
I LOVE all the cats and dogs on this farm.:)
I LOVE tucking my kids in at night.
I LOVE Reading.
I LOVE reading their Bibles to them at night, I love reading the Adventure Bible, I can't put it down!
I LOVE this time in our lives!

Craft Time

2008-09-17T09:26:00.000-07:00

I wanted to post this last week but , we were so busy I didn't get time. Which turned out okay. We are finishing up our crafts we started today, they had to have time to dry. These girls love crafts! Tammy and I have been doing crafts with the kids since they were babies. The great thing is now that we live closer we can do crafts together!:) This time we will meet at our house. I love this picture of Shelby helping Tiffany get her paint brush.

Outside working on our colored sand pictures. The kids use glue and make a design on the paper and then put colored sand on the paper. The drive way looked pretty after we were finished too.

Tiffany displaying the finished product.

I had video taped the kids doing their crafts only my computer is not down loading it. Hopefully soon I wont have so many technical difficulties.

2008-09-16T17:39:00.000-07:00

I had to call Ronn home early today. Thank goodness Tegan and I were going to leave for school to pick up the kids early. I had locked the keys in the van. We where going no where! Ronn came to the rescue. Plus it was a nice surprise for the kids to have Dad pick them up.

Here sits the van. There is Molly, you can barely see her. She has a ear infection. Took her to the vet and she has meds. The Vet also sent home some antibiotics for Worm. Even have de-wormer for our farm cats. I will have to do a post on all the cats and dogs. :)

You can tell we live in the country with gravel roads.

Ronn came to the rescue one more time and unlocked the van. He is very handy around the house.:)

Tonight was the first night of Cub Scouts. He has been so excited! He was in the car waiting on his dad he was so anxious to leave. Tristan is my piddler he rarley gets going. So I came out to get his picture. This is the way I found him. He is also a jokester and fun loving. This is a travel pillow from our trip this weekend.

Cub Scouts went great he had a great time. The first fundraiser is to sell popcorn. So get ready to order some popcorn!:) It would be so much easier to just buy the uniform, only this would not teach him responsibility. So here we come Grandma and Grandpa S & O.:)

God's Providence

2008-09-15T18:30:00.000-07:00

This weekend Ronn and I went to a conference. It ended up being one of the greatest getaways. We had some divine appointments. This weekend was what you would call a God Thing!
Everything was great until, on the airplane, we could not land at Indy. We had to go to St. Louis, due to the strong wind storm that Indy was having. As we landed in St Louis not knowing how long we would be there big tears welled up. I could not hold them back any longer. This was not in my plan for getting home. I knew the kids would be fine. I was the one who was a mess. Everything was out of my control. Have you had one of those moments before? I should of prepared myself for something going not as planned. The good news is we got home to Indy and we were only an hour and 15 min. later then scheduled. God is Good!! All the time!:)
It was good to see the kids. I had really missed them!
God has blessed us so much, I hope I don't forget how strong I feel his presence this weekend. Here is to a new week, and may God richly bless you!

Tegan Enjoying His Harmonica

2008-09-10T05:10:00.000-07:00

Here is Tegan playing his harmonica. I will next time make sure he doesn't see me taping him. That way you can see how neat it is to hear him make up a long song. This one is not to bad even if I am his mom. :) Tegan and I have enjoyed watching this over and over.

The Sign Of Fall

2008-09-08T10:08:00.000-07:00

After our Jamaican dinner (last post) we went outside to make smores. Maggie was over too.
It dosn't matter if we are in the city or the country we always have a camp fire in the fall. The weather was perfect for our small camp fire.

Here is our dog, Worm. He helped himself to a marshmellow on a stick too. One of the kids had set it down on the chair. The next thing we know Worm has eaten it.

I had to put this picture in too. Here is my Harmonica play'n boy. He was playing the harmonica so well last night, that I am kicking myself for not video taping him. It really sounded good. He was playing it right before bed, he was sitting in the dark playing to himself. It was really neat!

Ronn's Back

2008-09-08T09:56:00.001-07:00

Thank you for all your prayers while Ronn has been away. He is home safe and sound. He brought us lots of neat Jamaican items to look at and taste. Last night he prepared us a Jamaican meal with the spices he brought home. It was very good!

He was able to meet with the staff in Jamaica and get to know them better. They sound like the neatest people! If you are thinking about a missions trip, nows the time to go! You won't want to miss this neat group of people.

A Great Sept. Day

2008-09-04T10:40:00.001-07:00

The weather has been great! We are really enjoying our Sept. weather.Look what we found!!!:)

We watched him swim in the pool.

This is what the frog looked at!!

Molly enjoying the outside too.

He looks like a science guy.:)

My tired boy.

We had a lot of fun outside, but we where all very tired!

Have a blessed day!

The Kids Teachers

2008-09-03T13:00:00.000-07:00

As we were getting ready for school this morning I had the kids pick out there chips for there lunch box. Tegan had to have a lunch box too. I had to get a picture of them. Tegan did not like his head being touched by big brother, he is to big for that. :)

Tristans teacher this year is Mrs Burris. Tristan really likes his teacher. He really likes taking presents to her.
Tiffanys teacher is Mrs Kritsch. She really likes her teacher too. Tiffany is anxious to learn, the other day she was saying how something is not quite right in there class. I asked what she was talking about?" We are not learning the letter sounds yet." I had to chuckle, I said this is only the third day of school. You will learn your letter sounds soon.:)

The funny thing is if I want to go over those things with her I get the sigh and the do we have to? Thank God for teachers!

Today

2008-09-02T19:19:00.000-07:00

The kids really like school! Yeah! They love there teachers. I am hoping to get a picture up of them with there teacher only it is very hard! It is almost impossible to get a picture of there teacher. You would think that would be easy. I have found that it is actually difficult. So pictures to come. (Hopefully)
Last night Tegan decided to get up at 1:00am. I could not read into what he was wanting, it ended up being that he was hungry. We finally got to bed around 3:00 something. I took a nap with him today. I set the alarm to wake up so I would not miss picking up the kids. Which it turned out to be 30min nap. The bad thing is I slept through the alarm for awhile. I did make it in time to pick up the kids. I was just not early. I also have really bad allergies or a head cold. So that was fun waking up and trying to drive. :)
Congrats to the Black family on the arrival of there new son! Best Wishes!

Good Night!

Labor Day 2008

2008-09-01T19:38:00.000-07:00

This weekend we stayed home. The kids camped inside. My kind of camping! They had their tents up and Ronn slept on the sofa. I slept in my comfortable bed.:) I think this is the first time Ronn and I did nothing all day long. It has been a long time since we have just sat outside and watched the kids. We are usually cleaning and fixing things. It was really nice.
Ronn bought a couple of things so we would have fun this weekend. He bought three pools for the kids, water guns and water toys. He also bought items for the grill. He made it a lot of fun for us. Here is Tegan enjoying one of his water toys.

Look at that cute frog pool. Here the kids are getting ready for the Olympics. Go USA!!! There is our cheerleader.

Here is the lap pool. Tristan made sure we all cheered for team USA. Team USA always came in first and China kept coming in second.

Don't you think he looks like a swimmer? He really enjoyed watching the Olympics, it has made a lasting impression on him.

Tiffany is all girl! What else can I say? She is a born to be a cheerleader. I don't know where she gets it?

The kids have been signing autographs since winning the Olympics. I love them! They sign there names and then put stickers on them. They think this is an added bonus for the kids who will want them.:)

What did you do for Labor Day?

To Friends and Family

2008-08-28T18:12:00.000-07:00

Since my last update on Tegan I have found out a lot on Chiari 1 Malformation. For those of you who would like to start finding out more about this condition I would encourage you to take a look at Lacie's blog. On her side bar she has a lot of information about Chiari.
Please pray for Lacie that God will continue to heal her body as she is mending from surgery. Thank you Lacie for answering all my questions and being here for me as an Internet friend.
God is doing great things through you!
God Bless!!

First Day of School 2008

2008-08-27T14:52:00.000-07:00

The kids started school today. We have been very excited and getting everything ready for this very day. The kids could not get to sleep last night due to the excitement. Tristan starts first grade with Mrs. Burris. Tiffany starts Kindergarten with Mrs Kritsch.

The day went great! Both kids liked there school day and are excited to go back tomorrow. Highlight of the day "They have two recesses!!!"

Another Tegan Update

2008-08-25T12:31:00.000-07:00

We had a doctors appt. Friday. We found out Tegan's MRI results. It shows that Tegan has Chiari 1 Malformation. It means that Tegan's cerebellam is not formed right. We will be talking with the Nuroligist at Riley in Oct. I am to call and see if we can't get an cancelled appt. So we can see the Nuroligist sooner. I will have more to report after that appt.
Thanks for all the prayers!!!

Back to School Party

2008-08-23T08:13:00.000-07:00

We had Family Fun Night with the theme being Back to School. The kids had a great time! We grilled out, had crafts and games. Here are some of my favorite memories. Hope you enjoy looking at them too.

The Twilight Zone

2008-08-14T18:27:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, I had my Chiropractor's appt. I went to the new Dr. I was referred to. I have been going to the Chiropractor for over a year now for my neck. I usually spend 15 min. no more than 30min in the office. I usually go every 4-6 weeks to get adjusted. So I went into this appt. thinking no different. I was wrong!!

I had entered.....THE TWILIGHT ZONE!!!

The receptionist didn't have me scheduled. I offered to come back at a later time. I should have insisted! I sat down and noticed I had entered into an office that looked like I had stepped into the 50's. The waiting area even had elevator music playing. It was very busy, as I had taken a later appt. so that Ronn could watch the kids.

While there I had to have a physical and had to put on a hospital type top, had the weirdest adjustment in my life and had an ultra sound (not your typical ultra sound, it was a therapy they do) done on my neck. After all that the technician said I'll see you tomorrow. All I can say is that 2 hours later I had finally left the Twilight Zone.

No, I did not go back the next day. I also plan to cancel my next appt. and drive to my old Chiropractor.

City Life to Country Life

2008-08-12T19:52:00.000-07:00

Today we started to clean out one of the stalls in the barn. We are trying to get the barn ready so that we can have some animals. It also helps me to keep the kids busy.

I remember Tiffany just a month ago in a skirt and cute top riding the gator. She is my city girl. Tiffany is my screamer at bugs too.

Country life has already started to agree with her. She is starting to like wearing her jeans with holes in them. Most importantly she has stopped screaming at bugs. I have not conqured that one yet. (dumb horse flys):)

We had fun taking pictures of us working and cleaning out the stall. Tiffany requested the I put a slide show of them on the blog.

Highlites: We all have new work boots and love them! You'll see dirty cat wranglers, dog lovers and cowboy attitudes. Yes, the kids took baths right away.:)

Enjoy!

Tegan's Update

2008-08-12T19:40:00.000-07:00

Tegan's Dr. called from Riley today. The MRI did show that his cerebellum is 1/2 " to low in his skull. This is effecting his swallowing. We are now going to see the Neurologist. They will call me with the time and date later this week. We are hoping that this is not bad enough to have surgery. Please be praying with us for Tegan.

Tegan's MRI

2008-08-11T17:12:00.000-07:00

Friday, Aug. 8th Tegan had an MRI done. We don't have the results back, but will let you know in the future what happens. Please be praying for Tegan that he will not have to have surgery.
He did a great job at the hospital!

Tired of waiting!He woke up and handled everything okay and the sensors and IV came off right away. He picked out bubbles as his prize and couldn't be happier.:) He then slept a lot all day, giving mommy a break.

We love you Tegan!!

Mega Sports Camp

2008-08-11T16:55:00.000-07:00

The kids really enjoyed being a part of Mega Sports Camp at Farmland Friends Church. We had the best coaches and staff!! Tristan played soccer and learned a lot from his coach.

Tiffany picked Cheerleading and loved it!!

Tegan and I helped in the nursery. Meet a lot of great people! Here are some pictures of Sports Camp!

Our childrens pastor did an awesome job. We as a community are lucky to have her and her husband at our church. Great Job Tonya!!

Aug. 5th 1995

2008-08-11T16:30:00.000-07:00

Sat., Aug. 5th 1995 @ 2:30pm Ronn and Yvette were married. In a little town called Farmland, IN and of all places in a Friends church.:) It's hard to believe that 13 years have gone by.

Happy Anniversary Ronn!!

I now am going on a diet! I was so hard on myself back then, now I wish I looked like that.:)

This is one of my favorite pictures. I remember it had just started raining outside so we had to take the picture on the front porch. Things remembered... Bill walking Trista down the isle, it was precious! The photographer ticking everyone off! She also didn't allow anyone to take pictures too. Girls wanted my Man!! We had a girl who cried (sobbed) as she said good-bye to him. It was sad! He's quite the charmer!

Family Luau

2008-08-02T19:40:00.000-07:00

Today we had family and friends over for a Luau. Our inspiration was from others doing family night. We tried an evening get together only with our busy schedules a Sat. lunch worked best for all of us.
We started early making the kabobs and getting the decorations set up. I took a lot of pictures! It was very hard to choose just a few. I am sitting out side of Reflections a hair salon in Parker City just to get on the net. So I hope you all enjoy looking at our Luau pic's. God Bless!