Sweet Sixteen!!

Holy Cow!! McKendrie is 16 years old today!! When did I get this old? I blinked and she went from crusin around in her diaper to crusin around in the car!! I am so grateful to be her mom! and so grateful for her sweet birth mom who so unselfishly gave me the chance to be her mom and give her the things that she could not at that time.

I am proud of the young woman she has become and the choices she has made! Many happy returns sweetheart! I Love You with all my heart!

ps. She already has a date lined up! And so it begins!

Life Happens

For the past few months life's events have left me wondering if my very ordinary every day life events were really worth writing down. Thus the big gap between posts.

Other events have happened and I have begun to realize how important the everyday things are. I also find myself recognizing the miracles that happen everyday in my own very ordinary life. I began blogging because we have been asked to keep a family history. It is the easiest way for me to do that and at the same time keep in touch with people that I love! I write because I want my kids to remember and appreciate the things that happened in every day life both big and small.

Here is the last 2and 1/2 months in a nutshell.

We spent Thanksgiving in Anabella with the Sanderson's and Aunt Peggy's Family. We had a wonderful dinner, played games and enjoyed the company!

The next day was our annual trek up the mountain to find that perfect Christmas tree. We hiked all over with snow up to our waist's. I love the snow in the mountains.


The Christmas season was filled with Christmas concerts

party's and other activities.

Keeping with tradition, Grandma Sanderson came over for our annual gingerbread cookie making,

then Christmas at home this year, kind of looked forward to it after being away to Disneyland last year. We had a party with the Wrights on Christmas Eve. We played a hilarious game called Stuff Santa.

Mom and Dad came to spend it with us, the first time in ten years! It was so fun to have them!! The kids were spoiled (as usual!) we had an awesome Christmas! We have so much to be thankful for!!

Yesterday the girls and I gained a new appreciation for the Men and Women who serve our country as over 900 flags were held by High School & Middle School students and other members of our community on both sides of the road 3 and a 1/2 blocks long for the funeral precession. At the end of all the flags was the National Honor Flag the flew over Ground Zero after 9-11. We were there to honor and pay our last respects to Officer Josie Greathouse Fox, killed in the line of duty protecting others. I was truly proud to be an American, and gained even more respect for the people who are in harms way serving us as citizens.