Happy Birthday Joy!

I hope you have had a wonderful birthday. You probably spent it packing! :) Thanks for being a great friend for the last 9 (?) years! Here are some of my favorite memories...RBI (of course!), a certain motorcycle, kitchen raids, driving to RBI in a snow storm, working at RBI together, traveling to NY for a wedding, Pittsburgh for Les Miserables (wonderful!), and OH for a weekend of shopping (and noisy neighbors!), traveling to MN for your wedding, you visiting me in my little apartment in Fayetteville and lots more. Thanks so much for your friendship. You have brought much "joy" to my world. :) (sorry I couldn't resist!)

Our Weekend

Jeremy's brother, Hans, got married last evening. It was a beautiful wedding and we're thrilled to have Angela join our family. Here are a few pictures from our weekend. We spent Thursday and Friday night at Jeremy's aunt and uncle's house. Isaiah was a real trooper. We were very proud of him. We are all very tired, but it was a great weekend.

On our way home we stopped to visit our friends, Troy and Rachel. We enjoyed reconnecting with them again.

I put Isaiah to bed early and now we're relaxing and hopefully will be heading to bed early too.

Have a great weekend!

Hans and Angela

Jeremy's Family

Happy Birthday Robyn!

I hope you are having a wonderful birthday! I'm sure this is an excited week for your family. I wish our families could get together again sometime, like old times. :) Here are some great memories I have with you...
-playing with you at your house in PH
-playing with you at the RC
-making a tea party for our moms -remember the blue and pink cookies? :)
-witnessing in the "big yard"
-you and your parents helping us move to TB
-lots of great visits together in TB and RL
-talking about boys (of course!) and being very excited when Daryl asked you out :)
-our time together at RBI (drinking coffee in my room)
-getting lost after picking you up at the airport before my wedding
-having you come all this way to be in our wedding

I could probably spend another hour typing memories. Thank you for being such a wonderful friend even though we're miles apart. I hope and pray this next year will be full of blessings for you.

Happy Birthday LaRonda!

I hope you are having a wonderful day. I'd like to call you, but we are getting company tonight so I'm sure it won't happen. :( If only you know how often I thought of you. Thank you for being a wonderful friend all these years. Yes, we can actually say "all these" years. I figure we've been friends for at least 26 years now. Not bad eh? I have so many wonderful memories with you. I wish I could list them all. By no means is this list complete, but here are a few memories that come to mind right now...
-"sleeping" in your little log cabin
-trying to throw you cat over the rafters in your living room. :(
-going to the old R.L. school together
-bloomer pants (why didn't our parents stop us??)
-rooming together at Rosedale
-eating sugar wafers that your mom sent us from IGA (you said they were the best) while talking about Tim
-being maid of honor at your wedding
-visiting you in Denver, Cedareville and Rosedale (did I get them all?)
-traveling to T.B with you and Tim
-all the advice you gave to me on men (Jeremy thanks you I'm sure! :))
-getting the call that Michaela was born

and much more that I can't be shared with the rest of the world. :) Have a great birthday!

Hi

I don't have much to say, but thought I'd say hi. Jeremy is at church tonight so Isaiah and I are home alone. Isaiah is watching Veggie Tales (I'm sure he's too young for this, but it keeps him busy for a couple of minutes when I'm too tired to chase him!). Today was one of those dreary, rainy days. I love a rainy day, but this was the 3rd in a row. I had one of those mornings where I had a million things to do, but can't get myself motivated to do anything. If I would have made a list of things to do I probably would have got something done, but I was too unmotivated to even do that! I finally decided to go to the mall. The mall is only about 5 minutes from our house. Isaiah was a great shopping buddy. We didn't stay long and didn't buy anything, but at least we got out of the house for a little while.

Today is my "little" brother's 22nd birthday. I can hardly believe it. Where have all the years gone. I'm very thankful today for my family and especially for my brothers and their great wives.

Attention all you moms out there. If you have small children (2 and up) and are interested in getting them involved in a great music program check out Music for Young Children This program was started in Canada, but has now spread to the states. I taught their programs a few years ago and I hope to teach again this fall if I can get students lined up. It is a great program. The children learn all kinds of stuff about music, even composing, and have a blast doing it. They are taught in a group setting with other children. anyway, check it out. It's well worth you money. They're always looking for teachers too so if you're an experienced piano player check it out!

Well, Isaiah is getting sick of Veggies so I guess I'd better get off. I hope you are all having a great evening! Thanks for reading this long post. :)

Kitchen Tip

I saw this tip somewhere and thought it looked like a great idea so I tried it. It worked great! I was able to read the recipe without getting oil and flour all over it.

Yard Sale Finds

Yesterday morning Isaiah and I went to a couple yard sales. We only made it to a few before nap time, but it was well worth our time! I won't bore you all the great buys, but I did want to show you a picture of the shower curtain I got for $.50!! I got the rod and hooks for $1.00. I was so pleased. We want to remodel this bathroom sometime in the future, but it won't be for awhile so I was very excited to "dress" it up a bit.

Yard sales can be very addicting!

I put out a challenge for all you bloggers to post a picture of yourself rather than just kids. Sorry for taking so long to do it myself! I'm not real big on picture of myself, but since I did put out the challenge...

This picture was taken at the park at the end of our street. We rollerblad or walk and push Isaiah in his stroller. He loves it!


OK, I'm waiting to see pictures of the rest of you!