Hb2u Neil!

Neil - Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!


Hope you had the BESTEST day ever!!!!


♥
Darren, Corey, Hailee & Braden

happy Friday!

I don't want to do a double post - so to see what my family has been up to on a HOT day in Oklahoma you can click {{HERE}}

Anniversary Photos!!

Here are some pictures of our trip that we took to celebrate our 1 year anniversary! We went over to Leavenworth, WA a little Bavarian town and stayed in Mountain Home Lodge. It was so much fun and thanks everyone for the anniversary wishes! The weekend turned out to be beautiful perfect for hiking!

Jen:)

HB2U

♪HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR DAAAAAAAD!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! ♫


wishing a most terrific birthday DAD!
♥ Corey, Darren, Hailee & Braden

too late...

I forgot to post on the 17th...

Neil and Jennifer: HAPPY 1ST ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fly Boy!

If at first you don't succeed,

Fly, fly again.

Shish kabobs

Tonight we made a delicious meal of shish kabobs! We had a great time making them as you can see!

Jen :)

Great Baby Buys!

We've been researching furniture and combing the internet for the nursery.

Last week, we bought an awesome, old, substantial, and super comfortable rocking chair. We wanted the old-fashioned kind: wood, with actual rockers (vs. the gliders or overstuffed versions). Here is what we found:
And it is anatomically perfect for me!

Then, tonight, we bought a dresser. We had been looking at Babies R Us, Target, and JCPenney, trying to find good quality (something that would last) for a reasonable price. Then, Parker started looking on CraigsList, and through a series of random events, found an awesome, quality piece of furniture that is exactly the style we wanted, and right in the middle of the range of prices we had seen at the stores listed above. The crazy thing is, this dresser is from a high-end children's furniture store! We paid less than 1/4 of what it sells for, and it was only used for 6 months by the original owner, and it's in great (almost perfect) shape.

Here it is:
The front part of the changer you see extended hangs out about a foot over the edge of the dresser, but also lowers down below the regular part (similar to mom's old kitchenaid shelf). The whole changer piece comes off as well, so that it can just be a regular dresser once we are done with diapers.

Here is a side view:

And here is a much better front view:
Oh, and Dad, don't worry. The drawers are dovetailed, and the entire thing is solid wood!

We also ordered white picture frames for the walls that look like multi-paned windows. We're going to fill them with baby pictures of family and friends, and photos of lambs and red barns.

So in the next ten weeks, we will be moving out 3 large bookshelves full of books, a hide-a-bed, and the gameshelf-of-fun, then painting the walls light blue and maybe, possibly putting up white chair rail.

Thus far, we're well on our way to outfitting the nursery VERY nicely and VERY inexpensively! Yay!

Next on our list of purchases is a bookcase, so we can raise a little reader. I'll keep you posted :)

Love you all,
Briana

8 days

So we just received a message that for every 3 births in Seattle every year, there is one abortion. In addition, $5 million of taxpayer dollars in WA State are put toward abortion related procedures.
So to give a history on abortion and birth control. Abortion and birth control were invented by Nazi Germany in respect of a philosophical idea called eugenics (an idea widely embraced by feminism and the founding philosophy behind planned parenthood). This is the idea that some have the right to choose if others have the right to exist, reproduce and live. They would literally abort babies of Jewish women in order to prevent the ongoing "lower" breeding. It was invented to prevent Aryan blood from mixing with that of other and thus ruining the pure and perfect German race. We now have many more developments the Christian faith has taken a stand against such 1st trimester abortion, the morning after pill etc. The morning after pill was invented by the feminist movement, and is simply a stronger dosage of birth control. Abortion is a very bizarre concept to me. It falls in line with human sacrifice, child molestation, human trafficking, pornography and prostitution.
I am writing that you may sign a petition asking everyone you know to eliminate tax payer dollars from going toward such evil behavior. Who knows, we may see $5 million more in taxes supporting education, military and welfare expenses. This is vital, especially because we know a heartbeat can be detected after 8 days. In the end Jesus will triumph and for all those who oppose Him in the end they will be violently crushed. Until then, let us practice our politics similar to that of Daniel.
The link is http://prochoicewithmymoney.blogspot.com/
Please email to all of Antioch as well thank you.

cobbler and such...

So, I made a blueberry cobbler for a group of students the other day, using the Perfect Scones I posted last week as the crust (since I don't have mom's cobbler recipe, and I was functioning last minute). It wasn't as good as mom's, but it was good! 1 recipe covered a 13x9 pan just right.

The interview went well, but I did get a call from them saying they wouldn't be asking me to campus, which means that process is over. Disappointing, yes, but it was quite different from anything I've done so far, so I can understand how they could think I wasn't the best fit.

We've been touring hospitals and signing up for classes lately, and making tons of lists in preparation for our nameless baby girl! She had a quiet day the other day, and scared me half to death. She usually moves around so much that it worries me when she doesn't, especially for almost 24 hours. She's been back to her old self since then, though!

Love you much!

It's his birthday today!

yay! my little guy is 3 today!


tomorrow we will be celebrating with friends and a Wall-E cake!