Busy weekend

The weekend started with our MS youth group participating in a 30 hr Famine. If you are not familiar with that the kids get pledges to go 30 hours without eating and the monies raised get sent to World Vision to help feed hungry kids. We plan a lot of fun activities to keep the kids busy while they aren't eating. The picture below is of broom ball at a local ice rink that we went to Friday night.


On Saturday we split the kids up and went through the local neighborhoods on a can/food drive for a local organization named Love INC. That cares for people right here in our community.

Mark called Saturday afternoon to let me know he had shot a deer. He had been up north hunting from Friday until Sunday morning. Yeah for success!

Sunday after church we celebrated Kaylyn's birthday with my family.


My parents requested a picture of Emily to go with the other school pictures of their grand kids so my sister had asked me if I could take one for them. So after a lot of pictures like the one below from an unwilling Emily...


We did finally get one that I believe is frame worthy.

After the birthday party we had hurry off to a soccer game for Anna. She played great! The game ended in a 1-1 tie. She is #39.


Funny story... Mark was sleep deprived from hunting and I was from the 30 hour famine so we were both really tired Sunday. Anna has to be to the soccer field 30 minutes early. When we got there we got a parking spot right in front of the field. We decided to just wait in the car. Well we both FELL ASLEEP in the car and woke up with the game 10 minutes into it. Opps!

Wordless Wednesday - Emily Faces

Emily was showing Libby and I her "different faces and smiles". Oh I do love this little blessing!

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Wordless Wednesday - Not on my watch!

I'm glad she did this with her mother and not her Aunt Jen.
Note to self: don't take my eyes off Emily while I'm taking care of her.

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Wordless Wednesday - Fall love

On a side note... does anyone have any tips for making the trampoline stop letting off black?

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Why I love Friday's...

It means I get Emily. I also get her on Tuesday's while my parents winter in Arizona. It never gets old. In the picture she is yelling "Gunner! Come here." Even though she knows he is in the garage and will tell you that if you ask her. So cute!

Guess what day it is?

It's an Emily day. Libby was actually happy to have a dentist appointment today because she knew that meant she would get to spend more time with Emily. Maybe I should schedule all of those not so fun appointments on Friday's. Poor Libby is very stuffed up though and I think you can see it in this picture. 'Tis the season I guess.

Guess what?

Do you like the t-shirt I gave my niece?

Wordless Wednesday-Cutest "floor cleaner" ever.

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Happy Birthday Kaylyn!

A little late again. My poor blog is full of cobwebs.

Kaylyn turned 14 a couple weeks ago. We usually celebrate on Sunday's with cake and ice cream but because life has been so hectic we squeezed it in on a Tuesday night and I made tacos for everyone and then we had cake and ice cream.

Kaylyn has been asking me for a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting for the past couple years. Her Grandma Hill made it for her every year but Grandma passed away in 2005 and Kaylyn has been missing her cake. The problem is my mother, uncle, and myself get headaches from chocolate so a double chocolate cake is way too much for us. I came up with a simple solution that I should have thought of long ago. Provide 2 desserts. I had one happy girl this year. Wink!



It was also nice to have Grandpa join us. He loves all his Great-grandkids. Emily thinks he is pretty cool too because he gives her rides on his walker and she thinks she is pretty big stuff on it.

Update on my sister.

This is a picture of Jodi with our niece Emily taken at Zack's Open House this past June.

I want to honor my sister's privacy while still giving you an update because she really appreciates and feels all the prayers being said on her behalf. The bad news is her bone marrow biopsy came back with the cancer cell count at 70-80%. That is really high. The good news is she has no lesions on her bones and her heart is healthy. She will start chemo this week Friday. Please continue to keep her in your prayers.

Thank you!

Some more catch up later...

We interrupt "catching up" with a little Emily sunshine. Since it is SO cold here today. Hard to believe it is the middle of summer and I need a sweatshirt on just to keep from freezing.

"They are my movies little man. Don't even think about going around me."



"I love me a big pillow!"

"Where did my plate go?"


"Grandma please get better soon. Look how this crazy family dresses me. Save me!"



Enjoy your day!
If you are in Michigan... bundle up.
Smiles!

Happy Birthday!

Emily Rose is 1 year old today!

Where did that year go?

Busted big time!

My sweet son learned that if you are going to play with mom's camera you should know how to delete movies or you could video evidence against yourself on "accident". LOL! Turn up the volume to hear Zack's reaction to his little mistake.

But he loves Emily even if she isn't so sure of him.

Snow Day Fun

A picture for Kat

I noticed that in this picture of Emily I got my "Christmas headboard" in the background. I got this idea form Kat and Mark really likes it also. I think I will be doing this every year. Thanks Kat for sharing this idea!

Big scary Zack....

I just couldn't resist. Emily thinks Zack is big and scary. Poor Zack just keeps on trying to get her to not see him as scary.
Some day Zack just keep working on her.

Please ignore the annoying voice on the video. Wink!

Wordless Wednesday - Emily

(photo credit: ANNA {sorry Anna, I seen Kaylyn with the camera} Hill-14)

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Look who's here...

Watching Emily today and she showed up looking so cute this morning...

Irresistible

My sister called me Saturday morning to let me know that Emily was feeling better (she was getting over a cold when I had her on Friday) and that she had said her first words, "Can Aunt Jen come over and play?"

Who could resist that? Not me! So while everyone else was outside on the lake tubing and water skiing I was inside enjoying Emily to myself.

Hello my sweet little Emily.

"Aunt Jen that flash is killing me!"

Smiles!

This is why I look forward to Thursdays!

She just melts me!
Smiles!