"helping"

kead LOVES to help me cook...mostly she loves "shredding" cheese, but on the rare occasion that I bake something its a happy-helping day for her.

this is pat

Here is an add on to the "family sick" post, in refernce to kead's joy at reading about pizza pat. It cracks me up!

pizza pat

pat my brother-in-law (with keje, whom kead calls "didi")

I just love that Kead gets so excited to read about pizza pat! I don't know if my bro-in-law pat is working towards such a full mustache, but it would be pretty sweet if he could pull one off! Love you Patrick!

I'm IN!

I opened my inbox and this was waiting for me...

Acceptance Letter Welcom to South Plains College

is it just me, or are you slightly embarrassed for a college that has a typo in the subject line of an e-mail acceptance letter?

is it just me, or are you also slightly embarrassed for me that I aspire to attend said college?

South Plains- here I come!

family sick

ways I know Kead is missing being around the family:

* whether in a magazine, picture on our wall, a book etc. ANY picture of a girl, including pictures of me, she points to and says "TISH" (aka- aunt trish)

* she asked for papa to change her diaper today. I would have let him.

* she found my baby sling this morning, put it around her neck and walked around the house yelling "Booooke...he go?" (Buuurke....where did he go?) over and over again.

* we have a book called "pat's pizza" and when we read it kead says "pat pat pat" over and over again, pointing to the little italian man with his big mustache...haha.*

* We sing a silly song about the denver zoo (thanks to kirst) frequently around here. This is how it goes- I sing and then kead comes up with an animal we see at the zoo and then we make the noise the animal makes together. Cute. BUT- today it went like this:
- me- "its the denver zoo for me and you and..."
- kead- "TAI!" (aka Lita, aka my mom)
...no noise making...I don't know what sound a Lita makes. :)

it was a lot of fun to have so many people who just adores the girls around for so many weeks and it makes my heart melt that she recognizes their names and faces!

*this is funny because my brother Aj, my Brother-in-Law Pat and a friend of theirs and currently in a "stache-off" meaning they are competing to see who will keep the mustache the longest! oh, and funny cause he is italian. :)

family christmas 2008

ok- I know this is totally cheating...but we took all the pictures of family christmas on Kirst's new camera and, in typical jord form, I didn't get them before I left! SO- check out her blog; the glorious middle for the holiday fun!

5, 5, and 3

A friend of mine did this on her blog and I loved it!

5 things I hope to accomplish in 2009
1) start my graphic/web design courses at SPC
2) read/study the bible with a group of ladies
3) finish the patio in our back yard
4) walk in the park with the girls for exercise.
5) start international/redeemer playgroup.

5 things I am proud of accomplishing in 2008
1) having sayla grace
2) helping start redeemer
3) learning how to spend time as a family.
4) starting KoJo
5) starting the Redeemer Mentoring Program and the great people we have met through it!

3 things I am not so proud of in 2008
1) our stinking kitchen is STILL a weekend away from being finished!
2) not reading more...
3) not keeping in touch with friends in the Middle East very well.

I am really looking forward to 2009. I hope you will do this post too, it is fun to think about what happened in the last year and look forward to a new one!

LOVE these guys!

We got to see some of our favorite people in whole world on their trip back to the states. We met these guys in language school and Vic and I were pregnant together (the first time around). She got to be at Kead's birth and I got to be there when Josiah was born. I feel like God gives everyone a precious few life friends that you know will just be around no matter what, that you can always relax with and that no matter how much or little you get to talk everything just picks up when you get to see each other. For us one of those couples is John and Vic. It was great to hang out, catch up and see little Josiah, even though it never seems like enough time. :)

gotta love west texas

when we moved to the middle east everyone kept telling us how bizarre and different it was to experience a sand storm...but after living in west texas for a couple years it just felt normal. maybe someday we will live somewhere that doesn't get more inches of sand per year than it does water.

Drew got this great shot of a sand storm moving over our house a couple days ago:

back in business!

Horray for Cyber-Monday! We finally bit the bullet and got a new computer! Drew is so sweet and will be taking the old one to work and I get to keep the fancy new one with me. Although I must admit that I am kind of stressing out about having to re-learn how to work my computer after having the last one for 5 years (which is really long in computer years!)

I am looking forward to being able to keep in better contact, and update the good ol blog more often plus help my rockstar sister with our kojo blog more than once a month!

all bundled up

and ready for the cold!!!

(for those of you who don't know- I LOVE cold weather!)

happy birthday to you...

happy birthday to you...


happy birthday my kirsty...


happy birthday to you!


happy birthday best friend, big sis, awesome mama, craft buddy, Godly woman...I love you so much!

thankful

we had a great thanksgiving/christmas with drew's family in dallas. I am so thankful for them!

three things

1) sayla is looking forward to a career as a gansta

2) as of thursday she is 12.2 pounds and is in the 85% for weight!

3) i love this little raider outfit from julie. (the first pic is sayla at 10 weeks, the second is Kead when she was almost 6 months. yep- same oufit!)

NOT amused

haha! girls with at-ti-tude!


sayla is still not into it...i don't think she likes hats.

beautiful

I love every picture of Kead in this fun hat that Evette made. It just makes her eyes pop. I am also excited that it is getting cold enough for hats!