Here I Am!!

Hey Everyone. It is so nice to read messages that I am missed! Sometimes I wonder if anyone would really miss my blog. Glad to see that some would :). Makes me feel that much more loved.

Anyway, we have been pretty busy around here. Of course there was Christmas. We had a wonderful Christmas! We were very blessed that another family helped us for making the boys Christmas good. Not that it wouldn't have been good if they didn't help but it's so wonderful that there really are Godly people wanting to help a family that is going through a rough time like ours. To me it made it more to do with the actual Christmas Spirit than materialism. I don't know who it was that let us have this wonderful Christmas but I and my family are very grateful!! I pray they are doubly as blessed!!

Someone else from our church had put in our name for a Christmas Dinner. So we got a ham, corn, stuffing, Scalloped Potato's and some little toys for the boys. I totally believe our family is truly blessed through these trying times. God has really been with us! We would have never asked for either of these things yet God provided!!

We also had Christmas at my mom's and then again at Harlow's sisters house later in the week. I love just spending time with family and if I do say so myself I think we have a wonderful family :) !!

Right after Christmas is of course the New Year. So we went to a friends house and celebrated there. It was a good time with friends. The boys had a great time too playing some video games LOL.

After all the Holidays on January 3rd we celebrated two birthdays! Harlow's and my baby boy! Can you believe he is already seven years old? I just don't know where the time goes. Even with me being a Stay-at-home-mom and a homeschool mom time still flies by! Hubby I can now call my old man till my birthday in June LOL. Not that I really would but I could LOL. When my birthday comes around though we will be the same age again LOL.

On Jan. 8th hubby started his classes. He's been a little overwhelmed and nervous but he went to lunch with one of our Pastors and another member of our church and talked with them the other day. He is feeling much more confident and better about things now. Please keep him in your prayers. I know this is something totally different for him and yes it will be hard but I believe (I know) he will get through this. I know he would appreciate all the prayers he can get.

So that is what we have been up to since I last posted. I hope everyone is doing well and had a wonderful Christmas and New Year!!!!! Here are some pics of Christmas and Birthdays!

Pics of Christmas at home

Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa's

Gifts from Grandparents and Uncle and Aunt

They were very excited about this that Grandma and Grandpa got this for them (my mom in the background)

Christmas at Harlow's Sister and her Hubby's house.

I do have more pics but a lot of them have family members in them so I don't know if they want their picture online. But it was a great time!

We didn't have a big birthday party or anything. It was just celebrated at home with some cake. Jarod had gotten his birthday presents early and later he got a gift from his grandma :). He got some Wii Attachments (for baseball, tennis and golf from her. From us he got some Batman figures he's been wanting plus a Batmobile.

(Please pay no attention to the mess in the kitchen LOL)

Here are a couple of just the boys being them LOL.

Don't know if I can totally catch-up but I will try and go to some blogs today :). I hope everyone enjoyed my pics!!!

Irene Saavedra

I was reading Julie's blog yesterday and it brought back some memory's. She was talking about a friend she had as a child and how they had lost touch and was just wondering where she was and what she has been up too. Her name was Irene Saavedra. I was an army brat so I had friends that came and went. Well in the 7th grade while my family was stationed in Germany I met a girl named Irene. Her family was originally from the Philippines. Her and I just seemed to click right from the beginning. We were always hanging out in and out of school. LOL I remember her and I used to write letters to each other during class. We had a "secret code" when we talked about boy's we liked LOL. Instead of saying or writing their names we would use either initials or make up a name for the guy we liked LOL. I even still had some of those letters before our fire in 04.

I think of her often. We actually stayed in touch through high school. My parents split up when I was 15 years old so my mom, brother and I moved here to Michigan in the middle of my 9th grade year. Irene and I wrote to each other which was shocking for me because I am usually horrible at keeping in contact with people. I would even write her during class when I was finished with my work or in homeroom. I actually stayed in contact with her up till I was married and pregnant with Chord. We would even talk on the phone at times. Then we moved and I had lost all her contact information and haven't heard from her since.

I wonder how she is. I wonder if she got married and had children. I wonder too if she thinks of me at times too. I would love to get in contact with her. I have tried over the many years of trying to find her even online but I can't seem to find her. There are sites I can use if I pay but I am weary of them and it's not a guarantee that I will find her. I hope like Julie does that maybe she will search her maiden name and come across this post? Maybe then we can reconnect. Here is one of a couple photo's I have of her. It was one we were able to save from the fire but I only have like two other pics of her and this is the best one. This is a pic she sent me in her Junior year. In the back of the photo it say's "Here's me in our Junior year. Wish you were here
Lylas (love you like a sis)
Irene Saavedra and dated Nov. '93'. So Irene if you find this please leave a comment so we can get into contact again.