Birthday Pictures!

I got a little behind on Aidric's and Isabella's birthday pictures.  The weather on their birthdays was not so good for pictures.  So, finally I got them done.  I am pretty happy with most of them.  Aidric did awesome on posing and he is so good at following directions now, but then his smile doesn't always look natural.  Then it was Isabella's turn today.  It takes several of us to get a straight on picture, but she is very happy and all natural.  Danika took some of me and each of them and I just love them.  I love each of my children so deeply and am so thankful to the Lord for giving me each little blessing.  Now we have our first grand baby and wow, the love we have for that little guy!  If we love our children so much just imagine the love the Father has for us.  God is so good!

Have a great day and I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Loving this spring weather,
Alicia

Easter, Birthdays, and More

God is good and our lives have been full.  I have felt unmotivated to get to my blog lately but I finally found some time and a little motivation to share the last few weeks.  I think I shall share in a picture show.

My Birthday with family and fondue.  We even got to Skype in
Alexander and Ivy for the presents

Latisha made me a beautiful and just as delicious orange cake

Our cute little Grandson helping Grandma with her presents. He's getting
so big, crawling all over and pulling himself to a standing position

I got a frame for my next quilt, won't need to tape up the ping pong table

Aidric had a great plane birthday at the local pizza/play place

He was very happy with his gifts

Silly birthday boy on the Merry Go Round

August enjoyed it too

For our 26th anniversary we took a trip to see Alex and Ivy and also took a day
trip to Leavenworth, WA

The adorable newlyweds

roof top dinner

Gelato, ohhh yeah!

Love the European looking buildings 

Then had a fun day playing my first game of frisbee golf.
Here I am with my son.  It was so good to see them and
see all they have been up to.

David 

Alex, different form but both a lot better at frisbee golf results
then mine.  I do much better with a plain old frisbee

Ahhhh. Then there was Easter and such a lovely family to spend it with.
It was a little early Easter so my flowers weren't all in bloom yet, but
the grass was green.  It was also a bit chilly

Isabella found the Easter egg hunt pointless

Aidric loved it and would run past several eggs to get to the
one he had his eye on.

Cassandra, now one of the big kids got to get the more difficult ones

The kids after the hunt

Me, with my parents and siblings.  I love my family

Easter this year was on Isabella's birthday and after all the activities of the
day she was quite uninterested in the cake and presents, 

Our remaining family at home

Isabella did brighten up a bit when we filled her ball pit with more balls

Aidric also had a blast with the balls

So that is the happenings at our home as of lately.  School is going well and we just started our last semester and are looking forward to summer.  Hope you are all well and blessed.  Have a great day.

Alicia

Happy Valentines Day

So, much to celebrate in a weekend, plus.  With Chinese New Year, Valentines Day, Presidents Day and Brent's birthday (as you have already seen), what a week we had.  We enjoy celebrating Chinese New Year even though we have no heritage there.  I guess any excuse to eat Chinese food is good.  This was especially fun as we got to celebrate it with my friend Lien and her her family.  Lien was born in Vietnam and blesses us occasionally with Vietnamese food.  They live out of town but their children had activities here, so they were able to come to town and we got to have real Asian food for Chinese New Year.  Lien really out did herself and brought plenty of food.  I added a little with some help from Costco and we had fun.

Lien's bow ties and my "blessing" cookies

Next we had our annual Valentine's Family dinner.  It was lovely.  We have a fun time dressing up, cooking a special dinner, and sharing small gifts and cards with each other.  I am so thankful for the gift of family that God has given me.

Breakfast, red, chocolate chip, strawberry pancakes for breakfast

Dinner with family

Latisha made a wonderful Mocha Cheesecake

 

David and I 28 years ago when we had first started dating at a Valentine dance and now.

Now we have a day to celebrate our Presidents.  As a nation we have had some amazing men that have taken on the task of leading this great Nation.  My heart is very concerned for the future of our nation and I pray often for this next election.  May this country find a man of integrity to lead our nation in a righteous path for the next four year.  I ask you to please seek God as you prepare to vote, and please do vote.

Speaking of this great country and the men and women that have made it what it is, I just want to thank those who sacrifice so much on a daily basis, in protecting our country.  My nephew just left last week for  his second deployment oversees.  My heart broke as he left.  I am not sure why, but it is sad to have him leave the safety of our soil. It is easy to take for granted the sacrifice many have made as they leave their family to go oversees to protect our country and our freedoms.  Let me just say a huge thank you to all who have served and are serving this country.

God Bless have a great day.
Alicia

My nephew a few years ago when he started in the Navy.
Remember our military men and women.

Brentie

Happy birthday to my favorite son-in-law! It is Brent's birthday  or Brentie as Aidric likes to call him.  We are just so blessed that God put Latisha and Brent together.  Brent has always been a blessing to our family, since he and Alex were friends writing songs together and performing them in their band to his relationship with our daughter developing into a lovely marriage and now our first grandson. Thank you Brent for your hard work and love and commitment to the Lord and our daughter.

Last night Latisha threw Brent a great birthday party complete with curry chicken and crockpot chocolate cake.  It was delicious and we enjoyed celebrating Brent's birthday. It was fun to get together with the in laws and spending time with little August is always a joy.  By the way August is crawling now. Move everything up Mom and Dad  :).  Good times ahead.  

God bless

Alicia

Brent opening presents at their home.  

The cute little family at our home for super bowl.  

Never a Dull Moment

We have been considering getting Isabella a Service Dog.  A dog that could alert us to when Isabella is having a seizure or when Isabella wanders off or when she is in something that she shouldn't be in.  The other morning Isabella woke up to a seizure.  Sierra alerted us and began the timer.  Our little poodle began to bark in the other room and wanted out of the room he was in.  Danika let him out and he ran into Isabella's room and jumped on her bed and began sniffing her.  I pushed him off and he ran to her face and began to lick her.  I had Sierra remove him.  This poor little dog, that has had quite a hard time becoming the perfect dog we would like him to be, has a natural, God given sense that alerted him to Isabella's seizure.  Maybe we have our Service dog and we just didn't realize it.

Unfortunately her seizure went over 5 minutes, I had to administer her medicine, and David called the ambulance.  This was the first time I administered her emergency medicine.   We were told by the doctor the first time we gave her the medicine we were to call 911 and get her to an emergency room. Thankfully the medicine did it's job and we probably didn't need to go to the hospital but we did as we were told.  Poor little baby was so tired and exhausted.  Then she had to give 9 vials of blood.  Once we got home we were notified that they goofed and needed two more vials for testing the Geneticist wanted done.  I told them we were giving Isabella a break.  Giving blood is very traumatizing for her and they had to poke her three times.  Yikes.  She is doing better and we pray that is her last seizure.

The day after the seizure I had to run to the store.  Isabella was still a little wobbly but Danika was walking with Isabella.  The store was very busy and we were headed out.  Aidric and Cassandra were both talking to me and I didn't even notice Isabella had tripped and her legs were all tangled up with her boots.  Danika was hovered over her on the ground trying to protect her from the onslaught of carts trying to get around them.  Cassandra yelled, "Mom, Danika!"  I turned and was appalled, not one person offered to help her and I was upset with myself for not noticing she wasn't right behind me.  I was so worried one of the the shoppers would run over her hand with their cart in their hurry to exit.  I ran back and quickly got her off the ground.  Things like that make me check my own heart to make sure I am more aware of those who could need a little help around me and aren't in to much of a hurry to walk by someone who could just use a helping hand.

Anyways, God is still good and we are all back to normal.  I hope you are all having a blessed day.

Alicia.  

Isabella at the hospital with Daddy

She just really wanted a nap

Out little sweetie "reading" her book