The Kids and Mark are reading a book on Christmas eve. The kids are wearing their matching pjs I made them for thier x-mas eve gift . If you look closely the kids pjs all have frogs of different colors on them. My kids yes including mark have a fish tank were they keep frogs and tadploes.

Collin and Koko

Collin's best friend other than his brother Parker is our cat named Koko. Last fall Koko claimed us. He showed up one day after our cat Yumyum disappeared. The kids prayed and prayed that yumyum our cat would come home. After a few weeks the neighbors asked us if Koko was our cat, because he just showed up in the neighborhood. Koko looks exactly like Yumyum except yum yum is a girl Koko is Boy. He kept hanging around Finally we call the animal control to see if he was someone elses cat. He was not. Koko has been a part of our family ever since. The kids decided that Yumyum was unable to so home so heavenly father sent Koko instead. I am grateful the lord answered the kids prayer and brought them a cat just like their old one. Their faith has increased because the lord saw fit to answer a prayer over a beloved cat.

Parker at christmas

January 14 2009

All parker wanted from santa was a "red light saber". He was one happy kid christmas morning.

meg n sariah teeth

January 9, 2009

Sariah 6, lost her two front teeth just before christmas. Needlless to say "all she wanted for christmas was her two front teeth."Last week she lost another tooth on the bottom left. She talks pretty funny since she has no teeth to talk. Meg, almost 4 in a few weeks, had to have her picture taken of course, but it turned out cute so I am glad I took one of the both of them together.

January 1 2009

We have just added a built in dishwasher to the kitchen. It didn't have one when we bought the house almost eight years ago. Here is mark's brother scott helping with the kitchen torn apart(left), and mark getting ready to put the dishwasher in the newly put back together cabinet. (right). It only took them three no four trips to the hardware store for parts. Then the used dishwashre had a leaky part . We bought the part on line and waited for almost a week with the kitchen torn apart trying to do dishes from the diswhwaser houses. We ruined our new laminate flooring from all the hose hook ups leaks from dishwasher. We will have to replace it when we do the new family room bathroom tile in a few years.