My boy

Here are a few pictures of my smallest boy, Daniel Josiah. He is such a little blessing. He doesn't talk much, but he makes himself heard. He makes car sounds, animal sounds and sounds of joy with he laughs. His eyes are strikingly blue though that does not really show in any of these pictures. I was counting today and realized he will be 2 years old in only a little over 2 months. It does not seem that it could be true, but I know that it is. (And along with it will come Joshua's 19th birthday.) Am I really that old? I guess it is true, I am. But boy oh boy am I greatly blessed.
I know that I have let my blog get behind as I have been busy with the new year. Perhaps here soon I can catch it up a little. I am also a bit behind in my photo journaling. But yesterday I starting trying to catch up on that. Life is just busy with schooling, church, and Darrel being out of town.

Life gets busy

We are sort of on a company binge. We have new friends, the Beamers and we have had them over 3 times in less than three weeks and we had some other friends Friday night and we are having two families tomorrow. Keeps things busy but lots of fun.
Darrel and Jonny worked on Jonny's new truck.... Darrel's old red truck. Jonny has decided to fix it up. He got two new tires and a battery and now it is in the shop getting a new transmission. Jonny is so eager for it to get out of the shop so he can do some more things to it. I of course love them working together.
The kids have basically lived in the playhouse since we got home from Lubbock/Slaton. They love it! Tomorrow cold weather comes so they are bummed.
I started trying to eat better on January 1st. I pray the Lord will help me with self control.
I know I need to post pictures, and I will when I get time.
We start school on Monday so that needs my attention tomorrow after the company leaves.
Company plus my family will mean 6 adults and...18 children... and the weather will be cold so the kids can not go out... what was I thinking? It will be fun and I will get lots of exercise cleaning up after they leave.

Update on playhouse

Sunday was 83 degrees and so after church and lunch the boys worked until sun down. (CRAZY thing is Monday was a high of 28 degrees)

Christmas letter

After running out of ink... twice and getting postage and.... oh the list goes on, but anyway I do believe that today is the day that the Christmas letters will go in the mail.
Christmas Letter 2008
Joshua designed the pages for us.
I am very sad that I do not have a family picture this year. Perhaps we will soon get one together. In my mind I am very sure that we need one before Darrel leaves in early January for Ohio and Israel.

Has anyone told you Merry Christmas today? Merry Christmas Ya'll!!!!

November Newsletter pdf

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Playhouse Update

Darrel went back to work and the playhouse is not complete. It really really disappointed him, but he knows that he and the boys worked hard. The windows will not come in until tomorrow. They plan to work on it on Friday as it is Darrels AFO.
A new family visited the church yesterday and really wanted some fellowship, so they came over for the afternoon (2-8) while the guys worked and then stayed for dinner and fellowship. So you may see a few faces that you do not recognize in the pictures.

Playhouse

For Christmas the boys and Dad are building a playhouse out back for the younger kids. Actually if you ask the kids they are all building it. It has been a fun adventure so far. Day one of the actual building (after days of planning and re-planning and a large trip to the lumber yard) was digging the holes. The ground was solid! They had to rent a machine to help them. But the machine had problems. Then there was the cement..... it's done so let's not talk about it anymore. Day two.... after shooting about 20 nails, the nail gun died! So we had to track down and borrow another one. Day 3 we get a surprise visit from Grandmother, she and Sunny came to see the progress on their way from Plano to Lubbock. It was nice to hug her neck, though the kids were very sad she didn't stay and eat. But she needed to get back on the road for the trip home to Deedo. We now have the frame built and one side has two panels up! It is looking great. The boys and dad are working very hard and are disappointed that they don't see any way to finish it before Darrel has to go back to work on Monday. One thing they may not have noticed is how much fun the kids are having playing in and on it right now. I think they could stop where it is and the kids would have a blast playing for a long time. I believe tomorrow is the rest of the siding and the top deck. The windows do not come in until Tuesday.