Over halfway done and making changes

We are a little over halfway through our homeschool year. We made some changes to our curriculum that we have been using. We are about two weeks into using our new subject and we are loving them. Emphasis on loving!

Our first big change was science. We were you here God design for science. As much as we loved it and fouled all that we believe. It does not fit with how our girls learn best. And it was hard for them to want to do science and take out of it what I wanted them to get. So after struggling two get through our science for the last few years. A friend uses apologia for science and I was able to look at her book and new this is what we needed to be doing. After much debate about switching mid-year and the money that was wasted on the other science curriculum and the money that would go out and pull it one I decided that it was worth it.

That decision mean nothing to you all unless you know a little bit more about each curriculum.  

Let me step back and tell you why I like and why God designed in the first place. I knew we would have more than one kid to homeschool at a time. And this one allowed me to teach the all at the same time. It had project at the end of each book. Kind of like a final project which gave me hope that it would have more in the book. It did not, unless you wanted to take and find your own. I was also drawn to the fact that it was biblically based. The first year of using it was great the girls were young there time to be able to sit with shorter so the short lessons worked well. But as they grew and wanted more the short lesson were too short. And some very dry. Now that they are older I feel that we are just scraping the surface with those lessons.

Now to the apologia we have only been using it for 2 weeks now and the girls ask for science. So I think even if I hated it I would still do it knowing that they love it. I have to say I do love it more our style. If you have not looked into the apologia book they come with a teacher book that you read from the lesson. And based on the age of your kid you get them the journaling book that coordinate with the book that you're studying. There are two different level and the Young Explorer Series, there is a junior notebook, in a normal notebook. With our girl we did one of each. The junior notebook has coloring pages vocab game and worksheet for the first lesson. Oan copy work of a Bible verse. The normal notebook seems to have a ton more work pages, the vocab games 4 lesson 1 is a crossword puzzle. So not too bad. She also has copy work of a Bible verse.

  Both girls love that during the reading time there are times that we have to try it. It gets them up and moving, get some trying what we just read about. And at the end of each lesson there seems to be a project. At the end of lesson 1 in the study of the body we get to make a edible cell. How cool is that! They are already planning what we will study next! And for that I am grateful.

We also got word ladders that the girls have been working on. Eammah has the book for first and second grade and in doing really well with it. She enjoys figuring out the clue and filling in the puzzle. I'm sure we will be done with it by the time we start 3rd grade in the fall. Jessalla is doing 5th and 6th grade book, and having more of a harder time with it. The ladders are longer the clues are harder and the word are bigger. It's making her think a little different which is good. She is getting it just not moving through her book as fast. Which is great because she'll be going into 6th grade next fall. She will finish it next year.

We got a phonic program and a reading program also. Pathway to phonic, we are starting at the beginning and it seems really slow, and boring. I have looked ahead and feel like we will like it once we are past what we already know. This was mainly for our youngest who was

struggling when I bought it. I have seen major growth in her reading in the last few weeks. We are still going to use it. And I actually plan on doing it with both girls. My oldest is a very fluent and advance reader but I feel she will gain something from this. If nothing else it will be great review. The reading program is for reading fluency. So it has little reading job for them to do in each lesson. And again it is something that I will you with both girls. We also picked up English from the roots up. We may not start with one till fall maybe this summer. It has the Greek and Latin root in it. I may add the flat card to our morning board. That way we could practice them each morning with our other memory work.

Are other main change was how we were doing Bible. We bought overall a book for how to study your Bible. And it gave them different colors for Mark above different word and can make symbols, circle thing, draw pictures. So far they really seem to be liking it a whole lot more work than we have been doing. A five-day course​ with long lesson for each day

February reading basket!

Sorry this is a little late!!  But it's here it is...
Jessalla is keeping her books in the basket for March also because she did not read them like she wanted. We were redoing our books and she kept finding new ones. ;) And I did not do a good job keeping them out. So I have no idea what they were. But she did read.

Eammah on the other hand did well with her books and did more than what was in there. So on to her picks...

1- Pinkalicious School Rules! By: Victoria Kann
2 - The Berenstain Bears' Neighbor in need. By: Jan & Mike Berenstain
3 - The Bravest CAT! The True Story of Scarlett. By: Laura Driscoll
4 - The Berenstain Bears and the BAD DREAM. By: Jan & Mike Berenstain
5 - Disney Bunnies Thumper finds an egg. By: Laura Driscoll
6 - Disney Pixar Wall-E By: Laura Driscoll
7 - Stuart Little Stuart at the Library  By: Susan Hill

She did read more but some how the books did not make it back into the basket like they should have. If we come across any of those that did not make it on the list I will post them.
Her goal is to read a book a day for the month of March! She is well on her way to make that goal.

Letting her down, hurts me so!!

Went to bed like most night and was a sleep in no time!!  Come about 1:30 something woke me up and had a hard time getting back to sleep.  About 3 I was all most back to sleep when Jessalla woke up crying that her ear was hurting her.  :( I knew right then what she had.  And there was nothing I could do for her at that time.  She would have to wait till I could call in the morning.  About 4:30 she moved out to the living room to watch a movie.  And I went back to sleep.... knowing that in 2 hours I would have to get up.

6:30 am and Eammah and I were getting up so we could be at her appt by 7 to have her tooth looked at.  Jessalla was still awake and watching youtube!!  lol funny girl!  But still was in a lot of pain.  Eammah and I leave to go to her appt.  Make it there with her ducky in hand... we walk in to the office.  And we check in, and they ask if I would like to take the appt right after hers that way I would not have to come back at 11.  Well yes, yes I would.  They take us back right away, and Eammah gets in the chair, with a death grip on ducky.  Dr Z takes a look at the tooth and ask if she would like him to pull it out.....  Well, she loses it and hides behind her ducky and says no.  She gets out of the chair and it's my turn.  He does what he needs and we try one more time with Eammah I get her back in the chair, tell her I will get her a milkshake.  She is not happy at all crying and telling us she is afraid.  Dr. Z has out the jelly to let her see it.  Puts some on her lip and still nothing is working.  I'm talking to her about camp and how she was afraid about that and how it came out okay.  Telling her how big she is.  Still nothing is working.   And now she can not fill part of her lip.  He tells her that it will come out and he will let it be.  And tells me to have her eat an apple.  I can feel myself getting mad.  Eammah and I get our things around and walk out to the truck and by the time we got out there she could tell I was mad!!  We got to talking...  And I was getting all the same answers that I get every time.  I do not know, I am not sure, because....  All the ones that make me nuts.  And now she crying more because I told she was going to eat an apple when we got home.  I'm sitting in the truck telling her it will be okay, we just need her tooth out.  It's been like this for a month now!!  Then it hit me I was not mad, I felt like I let her down, nothing I was doing was making things any better!!

It's now almost 8 am and we have made it home.  Jessalla is back to sleep!  I'm glad about that.  Eammah and I head back to the bedroom and she reads to me.  I was able to call and get Jessalla in this afternoon.  And then the next thing I remember we both were waking back up from a nap!  :)  Jessalla was awake again and we needed to get up and around for her appt.  Jessalla came to have an ear infection x2 just like I was thinking at 3 am this morning!

There was nothing I could do or say to make anything better for either of them today.  Both for different reason.  But as much as I wanted I could not.  It was the first time in a long time that I could not make things all better!!  And I felt like I let her down this morning.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Psalm 32:8 The LORD says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.

It may not have been the best night of sleep, or what I hope would take place at Eammah's appt this morning.  But knowing that my girls know that having The Lord in their life is to have it all makes it a great day.  And this morning I got that remember with Eammah when that was nothing I could say or do to make things better.  She always needed a more loving and calm way about going about things.  And I believe whole wholeheartedly that God has use her to help me to more loving, and softer spoken.  It may not always be that way.... but I always try.  

January Reading basket

How can we be down one month in 2017 already.... hard to believe.  We we have done a reading basket for a few years now... I'm just now getting around to posting about it.  And I hope to do so
each month so you know what we are reading.  So here what was in our basket it past month.

Let's Go, Froggy!  By Jonathan London
Teasing Trouble By Valerie Tripp
Pooh Just Be Nice... and get ready for bed!  By Shelagh Canning
Pooh A Perfect Little Piglet  By Rita Balducci
Skippy Jon Jones in the Dog House  By Judy Schachner
I was a Third Grade Spy  By Mary Jane Auch
Barbie Girl's Best Friend  By Rita Balducci
Prayers For Children  By Jane Werner Watson
101 Dalmatians Proud To Be A Pup  By Ronald Kidd
The Adventures of Andy Ant The Swimming Hole Disaster  By Gerald D. O'Nan
Seven Blind Mice  By Ed Young
The Ant Bully  By John Nickle
The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest By Stan & Jan Berenstain
The Little Goat  By Judy Dunn
A Big Fat Enormous Lie  By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Lamb Chop's Fables You Can Do It, Lamb Chop!  By Shari Lewis
Winnie The Pooh's Thanksgiving  By Bruce Talkington
A Winnie the Pooh First Reader Pooh's Halloween Parade  By Isabel Gaines
The Mitten  Adapted By Jan Brett
Thabo & Kanoni  Apart of the Tales From the Serengeti
Disney Winnie the Pooh How Do You Hop So High?  By K. Emily Hutta
Daisy Dare  By Anita Jeram
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever  By Steven Knoll
The Dog Who Had Kittens  By Polly M. Robertus
Barbie Shooting for the Stars  By Karen Stillman & Victoria Saxon
Sheep Trick or Treat  By Nancy Shaw
Pooh Just Be Nice.... To your little friends!  By Caroline Kenneth
Gregory, the Terrible Eater  By Mitchell Sharmat
Take me out to the Ballgame  By Maryann Kovalski
Commotion in the Ocean  By Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz
Sesame Street The Count's Number Parade  By Norman Stiles

This month the girls will be filling the basket!!  I think it will be fun to see what they put in and want to read.

Christmas books!!

It was the last day in November and I sat for an hour wrapping up books just so the girls would have something to unwrap each day till Christmas.  All but two of the books they have seen and read many many times before...  They love it and love not knowing what book they will get to read that night.  :) I do not pick out a read aloud for the month of December, but we just enjoy reading all our Christmas books that we gotten over the years.  Here is a look at the books we have enjoyed over the month.

Tallulah's Nutcracker By: Marilyn Singer
God Gave Us Christmas By: Lisa Tawn Bergren
Where is Baby's Christmas Present? By: Karen Katz
'Twas the Night Before Christmas By: Clement C. Moore
The little Engine that Could and the Snowy, Blowy Christmas By: Watty Pipper
Guess Who's Coming to Santa's for Dinner? By: Tomie DePaola
Coca Cola The Night Before Christmas: A Family Treasury of Songs, Poems, and Stories
Who is Coming to Our House?  By: Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff
The Christmas Unicorn: A little girl, a magical friend, a perfect Christmas  By: Anna Currey
Rudolph's Second Christmas  By: Robert L. May
Mary's Baby   By: Jane Chapman
The Christmas Snowman   By: Rand McNally
Sesame Street Merry Christmas Elmo!
Fun to Read fairy tales The Twelve Days of Christmas
The Biggest, Most Beautiful Christmas Tree  By: Amye Rosenbery
A Christmas Sonata  By: Gary Paulsen
Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia   By: Peggy Parish
Jingle Cats  By: Michael MeDermott
Treasury of Illustrated Classics The Night Before Christmas and other Holiday Tales
How Santa Got His Job  By: Stephen Krensky
Mickey's Christmas Carol  Based on Charles Dickens' Classic Story
A Night in Santa's Great Big Bag  By Kristin Kladstrup and Tim Jessell

This years books:
Minions Snow Day  By: Brandon T. Snider
Shopkins A Merry Shopkins Christmas  By: Meredith Rusu

And for added fun because our girls have ask question and like to learn new things.
My First Kwanzaa  By Karen Katz
I Have a Little Dreidel  By: Maxie Baum

We love books and to read.  I have made list of the books that we would read for the month and posted on here.  And then we end up doing something different.  So this year I'm going to try something a little different this year.  I'm going to keep a list of the books that the girls read and the ones that we read aloud.  At the end of the month I will make a blog post with the list and a few words on a few of them.  I hope that works better for me.  :)

We would love to hear what your favorite Christmas books are.

New Years word is Health....

With New Years Eve less than a week away, I have been thinking of all that I would like to get done next year.  I hope that we have a better year than we did this past year.  For the past few years I have seen friends pick a word for the year, and I have never did it..... till this year.  :) 2017 word of the year is going to be HEALTH!!  I can not wait to see what this will do for me and my family.  What will it mean to spend a year on the health of myself, my family, my relationships, my house keeping, and even the health with my Lord and my Bible.

I have taken steps to start now, and setting people to check in with... because I know I need someone to keep me going.  When we think of Health we all most all think of fitness and food.  So I will start there.  And this year I do have goals of a healthier eating and getting out more.  My sister-in-law and I will be working on the food thing together states a part.  She will make one week of healthy meals and I will make one.  We will get the 2 weeks of meals for only a little of our time.  I hope to post some of them on here for you all to see what we will be eating.  I'm not sure what she is thinking, but I know for us we will have 1 meatless night each week.  And will try to get lots of fruits and veggies in each day.  Should be a fun way to help each other out.  And two minds are better than one.  I will be tracking my water intake.  I will not say NO ________, I want it to be something that I can keep doing.  I do not want to it to be a diet, but a way of life.

As for fitness and health I myself will have a been working on a plan and have a great friend who is really full of info and has given me some great workouts that I have done for a while now.  And I have plans to sit down with the girls and have them help me with a plan for them and things that we can do together as a family.  I'm sure as the year goes on if not right away Lottie and I will talk and bounce ideas off each other.  I know one of the goals that the girls have is to ride 500 miles on their bikes this year.  Jessalla has been wanting me to take her running, but that means that I need to run with her.  I'm praying about that, I would love to do that with her.  I'm just not sure if I have it in me to take up running, at my age.

I want and need to take time with my friends and family.  I will do my best to work hard and keep my relationship healthy.  Take may mean I have to say no to people sometimes.  And that is okay and will be the best for us all in the outcome.  Having play dates, and sending birthday cards are part of the plan.  Sending notes and text letting them know that I'm thinking and praying for them is more of the plan.  I will work hard to keep my relationships health and to remove the unhealthy ones.  My relationships go down to my kids and impact them also.

My house and healthy..... Just stay with me.  :)  I will take the whole year, yes all 52 weeks to clean out and decluttering  my house.  I have a friend doing this with me.  I hope to be able to keep up with it and have a happier and healthier house at the end.  I also will be coming up with a cleaning list for myself and the girls.  This is something that I have been working on for years and need to find a plan that works for me.  A few months ago I got a book from a friend and I have been working on a few ideas that I got from the book and guess what.... it is working!!!  :)

My health with my Lord and my Bible time!  This one puts a smile on my face ever time I think about it.  But yes I need to work on it.  my health with my Lord is less than what I would like.  This area has a few area within it.  My prayer time, Bible reading and understanding, study and worship.  I have a prayer book and use it well.  But I could be better at prayer.  Reading my Bible is a down fall for me I love reading it but at the same time I reread the same thing over again all the time.  Not that it's unhealthy but it could be healthier and my understanding would be better if I would read more.  So I'm looking hard and praying about what and how to study it.

What is your word for the 2017?  I would love to hear and how you will use it.  And I pray that you all have a healthy 2017 in many ways!!!

2016.... looking back at all the good times!!

Looking back on 2016....

Eammah's birthday gift from Papa and Grammy
Having the day with them, and Art with Mrs. Shelby
and Aunt Taylor

   Man ooo Man where to start??  What about January....  We bought in 2016 at a friends house with some of our church family.  We had a great time just talking and hanging out.  It was a cold winter, and we tried to stay warm hanging out inside.

Birthday dinner with the mouse

What a great show!!

 Eammah turn 7!  7!!  How did that happened?!?!  I'm not sure!  But she is, and this year we did not do a big party, but at Christmas Santa had bought us all Disney on Ice tickets.  And the show was just a week after Eammah's birthday so we spent the day down in Grand Rapids.  Let her pick something out at the mall and we ate at Chuck E Cheese!  And the girls had a great time playing games.  And the show was great!!  We were right on the ice no one in our way!!  She had a great day and loved the time we poured out on her.  A few years back I ask her how she would like to give back and for the most part it's always been the same thing, but I'm okay with that.  She is thinking about others and that is what I'm wanting. This year again we did something for the staff at church.  I have had a hard time getting cards in the mail the last few years so we miss a few birthdays this month.  I hope that I can get back at it and remember to get them in the mail.

February is here!!  It's the month of love!  RED WHITE AND PINK!!  Really the Disney on Ice show was this month but it's okay!  We had a low key month it was still cold and winter outside.  The girls were enjoying being out and playing in the yard. We did our normal things over the month.  Had some time with friends and family.  The girls were able to make and race their cars again with the other Awana kids at church.  And are looking forward to doing it next year in just a few weeks.

the upstairs 

March had so much going on!  One of the best things is that I was able to spend my brother's birthday with him, have not done that in years!!  It was so nice to have that time with him.  Even with all that was going on.  Easter was in march this past year and we were able to make the rounds to see family and whatnot.  We went to church Easter morning and then down to my grandma Bills' to be with all the family.  We had closes on our house in town earlier this month, and the day after Easter we were working on the house taking down walls and cleaning it out.  That is when I got the phone call to come home.  My sweet Mama Beth would go to be with The Lord that night.

April -  We started off this month getting our feet back under us and getting ready for Matthew's birthday at the end of the month.  My days were laid out a little different now but I still had the girls and they were dancing.  And had a show coming up in June!!

Jessalla's Birthday treat
out to Papa and Grammy!

May - Was another big month for a Landers girl!!  Jessalla turned 10!!! She is so sweet and loving!  Again we did not have a party.  But just spent the day with her.  We sign the girls up for camp this month and they would go at the end of June and the start of July.  Eammah would be going for a mini week!!  Her and I were not sure about that.  But I did not show her that!

June - OOO man!  It's summer and we are in dance show mind 100%!  It's going to be a great show.  And then I got yet another phone call.... My sweet Grandma Jean had passed away.  I remember that day and it was nuts, yes we live in Michigan and the weather is nuts.  But that day we had hail that day.  😲 So the same day that we said goodbye to one of the people that was a big part of my world, the girls also dance at their show.  I'm so thankful for our dance family.  I was able to walk into the school were my dad and Sharon met us with food and feed us and Sharon came in the back with me and helped me get things set up for the girls.  Another mom that I have known for years now... her and her daughter came and did the girls hair and makeup in no time.  And I was just able to sit.  I love them, they are a sweet family and love that our lives are crossing path again.  Jessalla went to camp at the end of the month and had a great time!!  She would go the full summer if she could.  Matthew's parents Phil and Dixie came in and was able to pick up Jessalla from camp.  So we stay up there a little longer showing them around and letting the girls tell them what it was like.

July - started with us dropping Eammah off at camp.  And me crying.  And a few days later going back up to get her.  She had a great time!!!  We got to see Dixie's side of the family and spent the day at a camp ground with them all.  Riding this fun bikes all over, spending the day talking and hanging out.  Matthew's grandma could paint!!  Well, very WELL!!  One of Matthew's aunts bought some paintings that she had done and ask if there was one that we would like.  So now we have a snow covered barn hanging in our living room!!  LOVE it!!  While Phil and Dixie were here for 3 weeks they were able to help on the house and we got lots done.  It was just great!!  The girls are doing 4-h and had their first show ever!!  They loved it!  And it was also Matthew, Phil and Dixie first show!  lol!!  They were not a 4-h family so it was all new for them.  It was a little new for me just because they do not show horse but Llamas!! They are a great show and loved it!!  Jessalla got Grand Champion!!

#18 for their favorite Youth Pastor!!

Eammah fish for the afternoon
she was a little sad that Layton would
not cook them up for her.

August - A week of fair at Evart, was not as much fun as it was as I remember it as a kid!!  lol  They had a great time we were able to be up there and see some of the teens from our youth group show their animals.  Take in some rides eat some treats and show their llamas!!  They had a great time at the fair and can not wait till next year!!  We had an over night with the youth group at a cabin out at a lake.  They had a great time, swimming, fishing Bible study!  Eammah spend one time we were having lake time just fishing.

September - We are now back into school for a month and going strong!  We are homeschooling again this year.  Awana is starting back up, and so is youth group.  We got some great bike rides in.  Not as many as we would like, and will try harder next year to get more in.  The girls had their last show this month.  It was just a weekend long.  And all I will say I'm just glad this was not their first show.  I'm so Thankful for the help I have this year at Awana!

October it's fall!!  This year is flying by in many ways and going so slow in others.  This is the second year that the girls have loved on both of our pastors for the full month!  Each day they did something for them.  I'm glad we are back in town.  Cards, baked goods, homemade things.  The girls were back dancing for a few weeks again, after having the summer off.  And we got two old dance outfits for Halloween!  They went as pink ladies!!!  I love that movie!!  We spent a lot of time raking, and raking and when we were thinking we were done we raked some more.  We only have 8 to 10 tree but they are BIG trees.

November it should be cold, right?  It was so nice here in Michigan.  Birthday dinner, family time, and more dance.  We have a very full birthday month this month!!  9 birthdays!!!  And I still did not get them all!!  I got most so it's all good!!  The girls wanted to both dance for the Christmas show for we had extra dance this month to work on that.   Our church does mission month also so we have different missionaries in each week to talk and let us know what they are doing.  It's so much fun and we all enjoy it.  This year we had a family come that we just click with so well.  And have been able to stay up with each other.  And they home school also and use some of the same things we do.  Just a nice gift from The Lord that I needed.  Thanksgiving week our church does a big dinner on Monday!  It's always a great time just to sit down and talk with people that we see each week but may not have time to talk to, or get to deep.  Thanksgiving was dinner at my Grandma Bills.

December was still nice out till about the 11th!!  Then we got a snow, and I think it will stay around for awhile.  On the 10th we had our first Christmas of the year!!  I know so early, it was back down to my Grandma Bills.  The girls love have that time with family.  I need to work hard to get them together more.  We have only 1/2 a tree this year.... the girl's papa Scott gave them a kitten who has made it her life goal to kill the big green monster that has taken over her living room!!  So this years Christmas tree is a hot mess.  lol!!  We are okay with it for the most part.  Other than that we have nothing up and it's the 16th!!  Phil and Dixie will be in tomorrow till the 26th!  I hope to get some things up before they get here. TOMORROW!!!  LOL!!  Who am I kidding!! We have 1/2 a tree!!  We have kinda full week why they are here... I tried not to make it so bad it just did not workout that way.  On the 18th our church is doing it's Christmas play with the kids.  And both girls are in it.  We have plans to give back at a store around here.  The girls have speech class on Tuesday, Dance on Thursday and also Art class then.  Friday we are going out with our church to sing. Christmas eve we are at home but have family food chop going on with dinner that night. Jessalla will be reading again this year on Christmas eve.  We are planning on opening a few things Christmas Eve.  Christmas morning we will get up and open up whatever Santa leaves us and make it to church by 10:30.  Both girls will be singing Christmas morning.  I know we will get some good time in with them.

Not sure where we will ring in the New Year.

Eammah - is 7 and in 2nd grade.  She went to camp this summer over night!  That is big for her.  She is growing so much trying new things with camp, showing llamas, and even new dance class this fall.  She is doing great in school!  She started off 2nd grade not reading much at all and now just a few weeks in reading so great.  Pickup any book she can and just reading it.  Can not wait to see what is to come for her this next year.

Jessalla - is 10 and in 5th grade.  She went to The Springs Camp 2 times once over the winter for an overnighter and once this summer for a week.  She is getting so tall and becoming a beautiful young lady!!  She takes a full load of dance, taking all she can and asking for more!!  We both love that her dance teacher is willing to help her grow, as a dancer, a young lady and in The Lord.  She is doing great in school this year and working a head in some places.

Matthew - is taking college class at Baker, still working for the USPS.  Looking at another job, we hope to know more on that in the new year.  And working on the house as much as he can.

As for me.... I keep myself busy.  With school for the girls, running them to 4-h, church, and dance things.  I teach cubbies at church on Sunday nights over the school year, and help with the youth group as much as I can.

This year has been a hard year, we lost 9 people in a short time, we made a move into a house that we are working on.  We are not all into Christmas this year with good reason.  But even in all the bad we had going on.  God showed us his love, and the love of others.  God has given us the people we need to help us make it.  We may have felt all alone but he never left our side.  He is FAITHFUL always!  As we close out this year we pray for each and all our friends and family that you have a great 2017!  We look forward to all the good that God has planned for us each and as a family.

Grandma Jean 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years from Our Home to Yours!!

Me and Mama Beth summer 2015

 Both will live in our hearts always!

If this is your first holiday without a love one, our heart and prayers go out to you.