17 days

             This is Devin 17 days after surgery and feeling lots better.  He is pain med free in these pictures.
     

 
Look at those Chubby legs 

name that tune

Eric was asked to be the D.J. for the Youth Dance.
He thought the youth might enjoy some games to play at their dance. This is one of the games Eric made. It is called Name that Tune.

He spent several hours and 3 very late nights putting this game togehter.
The game is made of a 6ft x 7ft piece of card board that is cut in 6 sections and then taped together to fold compact.

Eric came up with 6 different categories: Country gold, At the Movies,
In the Tabloids, Performing Arts, Dance club, and Guitars and Drums.  After deciding on the catagories he then found the music to go with his categories.  The Youth enjoyed playing this game and the other games that night.
Some of the other games that they played was the Limbo, Cinderella, Snowball, Polka Challenge.


Eric was an awesome D.J. I over heard my Teenagers commenting on how fun the dance was and even the grownups were impressed.





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11days

                    Here is Devin 11 days after his cleft surgery.

                                                   Devin is dazed from the strong pain killers.

 
If you look close at Devin's upper lip you can see a white line those are his stitches.
Devin has lots of stitches inside of his mouth. 

Devin after Cleft lip surgery. He had 5 wires and tubes attached montoring his breath, oxygen levels, heart rate, IV, and temprature.
He came home Wednesday 12th at 9am. He is feeding well now and is doing well!

Thank You

Tonight I am sending out my deepest most sincere Thank You.  I am saying thank you to all of you that have prayed for Devin and the rest of my Family.  I can feel the power in your prayers and I do feel the comfort of the Lord at this time.  I can not imagine facing Devin's surgery all alone. Your kind words, prayers and support have meant so much to me.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

New Years Eve

                             New Years Eve was a day to remember....

• Eric turned another year older (33)!
• We reminiced about our dating years and our engagment (New Years Eve 11 Years earlier)
• We had a yummy dinner of ham, baked potatoes, green beans and pinapple.  For desert we had Birthday Cake.
• After dinner we decided that it would be fun to go to the New Years Eve Dance.
• So Eric and I quickly showered.
• I put on a dress just for him I even curled my hair and put on make up (a rarety these days). 
• We put the children in there best clothes.  
• We even thought that it would be a great idea to take a few photos.  
• We started taking pictures well after normal bed time (9:30).

I think we may have lost our marbles to attempt such a fleet so late at night!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                      

All in all I think the Photos turned out to be a success.  If only the dance would not have been canceled!!!

After driving for well over an hour trying to find the dance we came home and decided to light up the cold night sky with our 2 year old fireworks that we had been saving for such an occasion

We bundled up the children all except for Devin who went to bed, and headed out into the frigid cold (-27)  for a few rounds of fireworks the fun kind that go way up in the sky.  The fireworks were a great ending to a great year.

CHRISTMAS MORNING

                                    SANTA CAME AND FILLED OUR STOCKINGS

                                  After opening our stcockings we paused for some pictures.

Devin's First Christmas and only Christmas Day Photo
Devin slept in the swing most of the day.

Happy New Year

From our Family to yours Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I need to get busy putting Christmas away and focusing on my New Years Resolutions.