New Driver In Training

Watch out world! Let the fun begin.

Well. I'm not sure what to say about today. Really.Where has the time gone? Today we headed to Marshall after dropping off the other two kids at school (no waiting in line and so worth the drive)for Jared to take the written portion of the test.

 Well, he passed and got his permit today.

 Legally, he could have done this six months ago but we are the mean parents and made him wait until he was 15 and a half ;)  And, legally, he could get his drivers license in 6 months, on his birthday, but..... yeah, we will see about that.

 We have been working with him over the past 6 months, letting him drive the back country roads to Nana and Papaws house about once a week.

 

 In all honesty, we are so excited for him, and scared. Scared, because of all the crazies out there, but excited he can start running errands for us! Ha!

 For the first time, today, I let him drive home this morning. I drove us to 968 in Marshall and he took over from there. He really did a great job! Very few cars out at 10am, but we did come up on a small construction crew. It was the perfect scenario for his first time behind the wheel. 

 

Pray for us! Lol!

Snow 2015

Our street one week before the kids were out of school for spring break. Caden walked out front with me to look around. It was so pretty...

 

 

 

 

Caden worked hard on our snow family. He did a great job...they look just like us. Lol

Random Pics

Over the past few months I really have not taken many pictures. But here are a few that I love! 

 Grace is the one at the mike holding the Japanese flag. All the kids did such a great job!

 

Sweet girls!

Love

 

We got a nice surprise delivered to our door! Thank you friends ;)

I met up with my parents in town to pick up the boys. The boys helping Nana get out of the van. So sweet! Side note: if you think about it please pray for my dad. He was in the ER all night last night. My heart hurts for my sweet parents.

This crazy kid  at her valentines party! Love her silly self.

One word. Precious!

Daddy Daughter Dance

These two were so cute. They look forward to the dance every year

And what do you do after the dance on a 28 degree night?....

Go for a Dq blizzard!

Caden's Baptism

 On Feb 8th Caden professed his faith in Jesus Christ!

 I can not tell you how blessed we are by our church! This was scheduled for March but with Mom's health being so fragile the church scheduled his baptism within just 24 hrs of us contacting them! God is good!

 

Warms my heart to see this.

Friends supporting Caden. What a great group of young men.

My Poor Blog

I'm back! So sorry Mom and Dad.  There have been a few reasons for my lack of blogging. One is that life is just busy!

School, homework, Church, Jared's surgery, more doctors appointments, youth, helping a friend with a memory book of memories of  husband and son who passed away is taking a lot of time as well, did I forget to mention school? Jared is on the computer most of the time during the day. I have the BEST intentions to post but it just hasn't happened. Facebook is too easy to post little snapshots of our lives. I can post from my phone.  ; ) My poor blog. ; ( I've got a lot of ketchin' up to do. But Dad, I promise I'll try to do better

The past few months have flown by.  I can't believe it's 2015!  

Since my last post we had a little girl turn 7! The first of August. Wow!

 

 
August 2014- the first day of School

After ELO (Extended Learning Opportunities) the kids had a back to school party!

 

Happy 12th birthday Caden! Love this picture

Jared and cuz Caleb went out for Jared's 15th birthday

October we went on a little weekend getaway with friends

 

Great Football Season Boy!

Grace and the Bobcat

Thankful for friends. Awesome football season Caden Luke! Won all but one game!

Oct. 21st Jared's surgery day. And my 10 year anniversary of still being alive and well after my brain aneurysm on Oct. 21, 2004. Jeff and I were going to celebrate but we were back at Regional again 10years later. Kinda odd. Jared had several friends, Aunt and Uncles and Grandparents stop by to talk or pray with us. Very thankful for them, Jared enjoyed the visits, it kept him distracted.

 

Thanksgiving with the families

The St. Romain Family

Took this with the tripod. Not to bad of all of us!

Us at my brothers house for Christmas. It was a great day!

 

I had a wonderful birthday! Another year older, 39 whoohoo!

 This year the boys worked on decorating the house for Christmas. They asked us to stay inside until they were finished. They did a wonderful job! I even got teary eyed

Our Family tradition is going to look at lights on Christmas Eve. And again on Christmas day at Santa land. Well this year we skipped Santa land after we heard of mini Santa land in Longview. Oh my goodness it was wonderful!  

We drove through it several times

 

This one made me laugh. Christmas morning 2014!

They are serious....you better watch out! ;)

Over the Christmas break Papaw called and asked if Grace would like to spend the night.  With mom being sick, Grace was 3 yrs old the last time she stayed with them. Grace was so excited!

I found this tonight. Oct. 2012 the last time Nana held Grace. So glad I got a pic of this! I remember Grace did not want her Nana to leave so she climbed up into the car and got in her lap:) 

 

In December, I had my first baby photo season. Precious little one.

 

School is about to start back for Jared so I may not see all you, (all my 2 followers) for a while. But I will be back. I must journal for our family or I will regret it.