May 2015

Silas turned 2!!!  We celebrated with a thank you party for everyone who supported us through Silas' open heart surgery and recovery. The party was a time of thanking God for all He has done this past year in Silas' life.  

We had a caked gifted to us. 

My sweet children!! 

Mark's mom Connie did all the flowers for the party. 

 Silas and Grammie-goo

 Silas and Mema

 A sweet friend of ours put together a video showing the memories of Silas' time in the hospital and recovery.  

                           Then we had a wonderful time of worship and giving thanks to God for the mighty deeds He has done in Silas' little life. 

We are really good friends with Silas' pediatric cardiologist and his wife.  They go to church with us and gave him a doctors kit....so thoughtful and cute!! 

 One year apart!!  Same suite. 

The girls got haircuts.....and bangs.  

 Lulu and I had a violin recital and played a duet. 

Isla May turned 4!!!  She got a pretty doll and matching dress......she was thrilled. 

 Four years old!!!  Such a fun age.

 Levi's been helping me in the kitchen a lot.  He loves to help.

 And our house is all dried out, now we are planing the repair/remodel.  

 First we need to remove the red wallpaper.  I had some amazing helpers.  

 Mark and I celebrated our 10th anniversary!!!  We celebrated the actual day by attending one of our required classes to become a certified foster family.  It was very sweet and in a way symbolic of our marriage and what God has done in the past 10 years.  

April 2015

My parents bought a house just down the road from us and moved to Idaho!!!  My mom moved first while my dad stayed back in WA to finish up some things there.  

 We had a flood upstairs that flooded our downstairs and started our adventure into remodeling the house.  

 This is our old formal dining room that we never used as a dining room but as a tumbling room for the kids since there was nice plush carpet....LOL.  This is is where a lot of the water damage happened.  Five rooms in our house were flooded!!!  Two upstairs and 3 down.  

 These lovely fans got to be in our house for a good week running day and night.....it was very loud.

 This is looking into Mark's office that got a good amount of water damage. 

 Here is a picture taken from in our homeschool room looking into the formal dining. 

We had a chandelier hanging in this room that became water logged and fell out of the celling the moment one of the workers touched it. 

All this water damage was from ONE load of laundry that emptied onto the floor and not in the hose....it wasn't running water, just the ONE load draining!  We never in a million years thought we would have this much damage.  

March 2015

March flew by so here's some pictures from the month.....

 Burning energy inside......jumping to music. 

 Date night to see the movie The Drop Box.  We had burgers in the van then enjoyed the movie.  What a powerful movie showing the value of human life and the power of Jesus in the life of those who are the "least of these."  Every life is valuable and created in the image of our Creator! People can deny God all day long but that will not change the truth of His existence and how we will give an account someday to Him.  

In my family alone there have been 9 known abortions.....just the know ones.  Nine lives that were not valued.  So very sad.  

"The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me." Mathew 25:40

 Lot's of outdoor play as winter turns to spring. 

 Lulu got to babysit my parents dog as they were here moving into their new home. 

 Working on their tan.....ha! Anyone see a scar???  It's hard to see which make me a bit sad.  I love that scar and I love what a testimony it is to what God has done in Silas' life. 

 Papa playing catch with Levi. 

 Tea party time! 

 Mark and Lulu went for a run! 

 We were introduced to Cash-n-carry......way too fun! 

 Did some sewing for the girls. 

 Started playing horseshoes.  

 We ended the month celebrating my 32nd birthday.