A little help from friends.

Well, We have had some dramatic times with our van this week. After all the shaking and rattling and belts falling off on Thursday we drove it home tonight. So far it seems to be working well. Janet and Ryan Hay are friends of ours. Ryan does all kinds of work on cars and helped us out tremendously. We were looking at having to buy a new engine. We may still have to do that in the future, but praise the Lord, at least for today we have only spent $45. Of course, while the men were out working on saving our poor van, Janet and I were working hard at socializing in the house. She has 6 beautiful children. Her little boy, Conner, had a great time scaring Hailey. He is three and such a riot. Their youngest is little Seth. I fell in love with him. Here are a couple of pics of him crawling around. I love being able to still have such wonderful friends from my childhood.

I thought I would start actually trying to post pictures once in awhile (Now that I have found my camera). I'm pretty proud of my first attempt at entering the new era of technology. The girls slept in curlers on Saturday night. They love to have curly hair for church. I hope you are all having a wonderful day. Love ya
Jackie

Cheri

Just to let everyone know, Cheri's Computer is dead. She can not play Scrabble or anything. She is taking it to someone tonight. He said she will likely lose her pictures for the last year. Love you all Mom/Sylvia

Hello Friends and family,
Life has been very busy around here and most likely won't slow down until the end of the school year. I wouldn't trade it for anything (Except for a full night of sleep). I love what I do. In my wildest dreams I wouldn't have guessed how much I would love working with the teenagers. They have absolutely blessed my life.

I do have a story for you. (my real reason for writing tonight). For those of you who know Rachel, you will know that this is very typical for her. For those of you who don't, please enjoy a laugh and know that my life is very interesting with her around. First let me say that I have no idea why she has been getting up in the night, but she is getting hard pressed for good excuses to be out of bed at three in the morning. I'm not at the peak of my patience at three in the morning either. Well, I had already been up at about one because Hailey had made a river out of her bed. (That is not an exaggeration either.) I had gotten her cleaned up and by then of course she was in my bed. Having Hailey in bed doesn't make for the greatest sleeping accommodations. She kicks all the blankets down and we spend the night pulling them back up. So you can see that by the time Rachel made it down at the lovely time of three I was not in the mood for anything. Rachel came in crying (as usual) telling me that she wanted in my bed. (Did I mention that Hailey was already taking up three fourths of the bed) Anyway, there was no way. She proceeded to tell me how scared she was. I asked her what she was scared of. (I'm not completely heartless, I was slightly concerned). Rachel told me that her cheek was making noise and it scared her. I guess it doesn't matter what time it is, it takes awhile to process many of her statements so I asked that stupid question, "What did you say?" She said, "My cheek is making noise, Listen." She made some noise and started crying. So tell me, What would you do? I sent her to bed and told her I would listen again in the morning. she never did go to her bed. She slept on the couch. I guess her cheek was quieter downstairs.

Happy Mother's Day Moms!!!

Happy Mother's Day, Mom, Cheri and Jackie.

I love you all very much.

Resident Writer!

I have to brag again about Scott!!
I was just reading the weekly Oak Harbor school district breifs and saw this:

WIWA Announces Contest Winners Oak Harbor student writers did well in the annual Whidbey Island WritersAssociation (WIWA) 2008 writing contest for middle school and highschools. Awards were made in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Winning submissions are displayed in a special binder at each Sno-Isle Library.Oak Harbor winners included: Grades 9 through 12: Fiction - 1st SCOTT McPHERSON (OHHS), 3rd Cristin Lode (OHHS). Non-fiction - 1st Adrianna Royal (Home Connection) Poetry - 1st Samantha Beville (OHHS), 2nd Adrianna Royal (HomeConnection), 3rd William Hammond (OHHS), HM Meijiao Jachning (OHHS).

I did not even know he was entered in a contest!! I wonder if he knows, he has not said anything! I'll surely be asking questions tonight!!

Birthday Celebrations!

Saturday Beth and her kids came up to help celebrate John and James birthdays! We had a nice time even though it was raining!! We had pizza and cake and even walked down to the beach for a bit. Here is a group picture of all the kids and Beth!
Today after Church we went to eat Mexican food and the went Deception pass state park and checked out their beach. It was a beautiful day today!!!! When we got home I gave John a berry pie for his b-day. He LOVES berry pie!!!! Enjoy the pictures!!
Pie and Chocolate!!! Ritter Sport Chocolate!!

Someone built a little fort out of drift wood. It was really cool!!

Tim came over today to do something with my computer and then climbed the mango trees to help us get our mangoes down before they all spoiled up there. While he was up there he spied this very active bees nest and soon decided it would be best to come away and not to disturb the little critters.