Jessica's Turn

I've noticed that Jordan has been the subject of my last few posts. And with his high school graduation coming up soon he'll be in the headlines again! But I've had some fun today looking at a few pictures of my beautiful daughter from the past couple of years, and look how much she has grown up!

She wouldn't be very happy to see these pictures published on my blog, I'm sure. "My hair looks horrible!" is her usual reasoning. Well, I think she's a beautiful young woman and I'm so very proud of her. I hope that some day soon she will see herself that way and be happy with who she is...





A beautiful daughter of God.

A New Eagle

So here is Jordan, our newest Eagle Scout. After years of work and many hours of service, he finally made it to his goal. There was a time when even he didn't think he would finish. But as he said later, he felt that if he didn't reach his goal of obtaining Eagle, all those years of work and all of those service hours would be to no avail--almost a waste.

And here are my three Eagle Scouts!

So this is the end of the line for our Boy Scouts, our fifth and last son. They may choose to continue in the program as adults, but as Boy Scout parents, this is it for us.
We're proud of you, boys.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Check this out

from my Valentine of
31 years!
Maybe it's because I just recently found
last year's Valentine's Day card
that had never even been signed?
Or was it because
he "forgot" Valentine's Day completely
the year before that?

I had to take a couple pictures of it
just to show how big it was,
and Jasper was the perfect
yardstick!

Just Chatter

So for some reason I really like to go blog surfing. I don't know why, because it usually ends up depressing me, all the cute little blogs by the cute little moms full of pictures of their cute little husbands and kids and all the cute little crafts they can do. I've mentioned this before, but I miss my little ones! My kids are all getting so OLD and not so much fun in lots of ways...but awesome in other ways, I'll admit.

I just spent 4 days down in Lafayette with Jake and Marie and the 3 girls, trying to be of some help to Marie in her last few weeks of being pregnant with the twins. Getting the girls fed and dressed in the mornings, driving Isabelle to school, putting Nikki and Emmy down for naps, up and down the stairs, changing diapers, getting Isabelle off the bus, dinner time. And then bed time--that's another story! Add to that trying to keep up a house, doing laundry, and doing activities with the kids and no wonder she needs some help.

The babies are due some time towards the end of April and the doctor says she sees no reason why Marie shouldn't be able to go at least 38 or 39 weeks. No good reason? How about she just needs them out! I'll be "on call" for whenever they need me. The real trial will come in a couple of months when Jake has to go back to San Diego for the summer to work. What will Marie do at home with a 5-year-old, a 3-year-old, a 2-year-old, and newborn twins???