Fun Weekend with Auntie Tiff

We had an eventful couple of days. Yesterday, Saturday, February 3rd, Amabella had a basketball game at church at 10. Her team won their first win of the season, and she had fun. She also loves having one of her best friends, Danica, on her team and got to play against her other best friend, […]

Celebrating Adi Early

We had fun celebrating Adi early tonight. I bought her lots of fun baking stuff, and she opened them while the Superbowl game played in the dining room (as we don’t have a usable living room right now). After she opened the gifts, I walked into my room and Azri is stuffing a Lego set […]

Our Christmas Card 2017

Watching Home Movies and Reminiscing

We had such fun watching old home movies this evening. A favorite was watching as my oldest was 2 1/2 holding her 2 week old sister on my bed and watching that poor baby getting flopped all over the place. All while my 1 1/2 year old rolled around on the bed. My husband pointed […]

Christmas Sweetness

On Friday, December 23rd … “Today is our Christmas and I already am reminded of how blessed I am. Yesterday, as I was struggling with disappointment and sadness I knew that God wanted me to have a good attitude regardless of my circumstances. I prayed and then pulled my oldest daughter to me. I wrapped […]

Merry Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve from us to you.

Our Maker Faire Weekend

Saturday morning, May 21, 2016, we loaded up and drove toward San Mateo for Maker Faire. We parked in a town nearby and took a shuttle to the Faire. The shuttle was so exciting!  It was a really nice bus fully equipped with seatbelts.  The kids were ecstatic to ride a bus for the first […]

Azri’s Latest Hair Cut

So, early into my shift at work today, I get the following text and picture from Trevor. Ava on the loose.   I arrived home at dinner and asked Ava if she got in trouble. She said yes, but I didn’t ask Trevor how he responded.   Later, Avalina told me that she cut his hair […]

Christmas Card/Letter 2012

Sorry for the delay, our family Christmas Card/Letter will be posted here very soon. Check back.

The book of James: Spiritual Maturity

James 1 We are called to have no will of our own. We need to see and pause for God moments. That we would clay to be molded in God’s hands daily. 1 cor 6:19-20 Matthew 7:21 Ephesians 3:8 Luke 17:10 Luke 6:46 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 1 Timothy 1:15 Galatians 1:10 Servants: Called to serve […]

Christmas Wish Lists 2012

Here is our Christmas Wish Lists with some of our ideas. Some have already been purchased or are going to be purchased, so I put the name next to it and/or put a strike/line through the text to show it is purchased. Feel free to text or email me with questions or let me know […]

Special Presents for the Girls

In preparing for baby brother’s arrival, I picked out 3 different dress-up/role playing outfits for the girls to have someone give them when we were in the hospital. Well, Oma had thoughtfully bought the girls new flip flops and Great Aunt Susan had some special gifts of notepads and stickers for them, so they got […]

Time with Uncle Nathan

This evening, we had the privilege of seeing my little brother. The girls were so excited when they got up from their nap to head he was coming. Amabella got dressed up for Uncle Nathan. She wanted to look fancy, so she put on a fluffy tutu, ballet slippers, a fancy shirt, and a bow […]

“Top Pop” Father’s Day Survey

Yesterday at church, the girls came home with a “Top Pop” Father’s Day survey about their dad. It was both cute and hilarious to read Amabella and Adeliza’s responses. Below are the pictures of their surveys. * Chippeys is what the girls refer to poker chips as. Trevor also thought Adeliza was talking about Grandad […]

Theresa’s Baby Shower

Today I had the privilege of attending a baby shower for one of my long time friends. It was so nice to catch up with so many old friends: one I’m not sure I’ve seen since high school. My favorite part was simply getting to be with a couple of two of my oldest, sweetest […]

Monkey Pancakes

This morning, just for fun, we made monkey pancakes for breakfast. The girls loved them. 🙂 You might see my beautiful red tulips from mom in the background.

First Present for Baby Boy

On Wednesday, I received the first gift for baby boy. My sweet friend, Ros, bought him these adorable shoes that he’ll get to wear as he gets older. 🙂

Family News

As always, God continually brings new and exciting adventures into the life of our family.  We are so blessed to have each other!  God always knows what he is doing, and has perfect timing, even when it isn’t clear to us.  🙂 In mid January, my older brother’s first daughter, my niece, was born.  What […]

Officially Starting Home Teaching (A-C)

I officially started my home teaching of my girls last week.  We are using various resources both online and ideas I have had over the years. Below are some are some of the activities or lessons we did over the past week and a half. We made foods relating to the letter of the day […]

Amabella’s 4th Birthday: A Nativity Party

For her fourth birthday party, Amabella chose to have a Nativity Party.  I didn’t quite know what it would look like, but it turned out beautifully. I made my life easy and chose to buy a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting from Costco and place a Playmobil Nativity set on the top as her cake topper […]