Mark's Families Christmas

The day after Thanksgiving, we went to Mark's folks up by Springfield, Illinois. We had our family Christmas because they had so much bad weather last year that we didn't do Christmas until EASTER!!!
Jordan, the oldest grandchild, reading the Christmas story from the Bible.

Mark's parents.

All of the neices but Milady, she and Chad didn't get to come home for Thanksgiving, but they will be here for Christmas!!!!

Grandma and Grandpa and Heidy!

Waiting to open gifts!!

The hit of the day!!! Her Dr. Loder set. Dr. Loder is her surgeon that has done her hip surgery. So it wasn't just a Doctor set, but a Dr. Loder set!

Look Mommy a shot thingy!

My sister in law fixed the scrubs and the bag to be just for Dr. Heidy.

All the neices and Rachel, Jordan's wife.

Shannon, Heidy and Chloe

All of us, but Milady and Chad :-(

Thanksgiving Day 2007

On Thanksgiving day we went to my Folks in Kentucky.
Doris, Heidy and Skyler with Josie, who went with us and her mommy too.

Heidy and her Pappaw having a discussion about something.

The girls playing Uno.....

Me, Carla, Heidy and Josie.

The bird!!!

This is Heidy's outfit for the day......

Pre School Thanksgiving Feast

The day before Thanksgiving, there was a feast of Pilgrims and Indians and Turkeys, at Wee Kare Pre School. It was really fun to go in and help with it.


Heidy's placemat!! I didn't let her eat on it because I wanted to keep it!!!
Aren't these the cutest turkeys you have ever seen???

Here are some of the Pilgrims.. Heidy is about half way up on the right.

Some of the Indians, TJ the little guy in front, I used to babysit, he is still my buddy!!

Pilgrim Heidy.

Fall Leaf Fun

A couple of weeks ago, Heidy had asked her papa to make some leaf puddles for her to play in, He was confused... Leaf puddles??? She said yeah Papa leaf puddles. Mark was still like PUDDLES??? Heidy looked at me and said, What's that word mommy? I thought I knew what she meant so I replied, Piles? She said YEAH that's it piles, will you make me some leaf piles, Papa, to play in? and of course he did!!! He is a good daddy. We have so many fall leaves for the girls to have fun in. And this is sort of how it went.....
Getting it ready for the girls to romp and jump in!!

Heidy is getting ready to JUMP!!!!!!!

Look Gina, this is how you do it!!

I love this face!!!

I love this little ones face too!!! Maci is a sweet heart and so special to us!!

Throwing the leaves!!! Yeah Gina, some more!!!
Heidy jumped in and about got covered up!!! She was having a blast!

Now Maci on the other hand, wasn't too sure!!!

So Heidy got the Gator out and made a small pile of leaves for Maci....

And it worked and Maci got a little more into the leaf playing and started having more fun!!

Come one Maci pick up leaves to throw at your mommy!!

Like this!!!!

Good Maci!! Let's do it again!!

Maci ended up having lots of fun in the leaves too!!Now Gina, I'm not to sure about......

Like me? -- Another Heidyism

As some of you know, I really want to adopt a little girl from Ethiopia and we ARE praying about it. If we do, we would like to adopt a little girl close to Heidy's age.

Every day, Heidy prays for "my sissy from 'Afaca' named Eden". She will pray that her sissy isn't "crying for her mommy and daddy". She will pray that Eden has food. But most of all she prays Eden will come home. Heidy wants her to be age 3 or 4. We were cleaning up her room the other day and making beds and rearranging her closet (yes, to get all the clothes and shoes in!) She was helping and we were just talking, and she said, "Mommy, does my sissy in 'Afaca' have brown skin like me?" I said "Yes she does" Heidy started jumping up and down clapping and cheering, "YEAH!!!!" She really liked that fact!!

I just smiled.

Born in My Heart

Heidy knows she was born in Guatemala. Heidy knows she was born in my heart.


My friend Gina (Maci's mommy) was sitting with us at church the other night and she leaned over and told Heidy this song is about you! We started singing and came to the line in the song.... "You took this orphan in and placed me right in a family" Heidy says "Like me!" I said "Yes, like you". She then said, "I was born in your heart" I said "Yes you were" And she said, "Guatemala in there??" I started laughing and said "No sweet pea, Guatemala isn't in there" She is right in some ways, Guatemala will always have a piece of my heart because she was born there. She is a funny little girl and we are very blessed!!

Simon says.....

Tonight on the way home from church, we were taking a couple of the exchange students home. Heidy was playing Simon says with them in the back seat, and she was saying "Simon says to be quiet", we did. "Simon says to turn on the light" they did. "Simon says clap your hands" they would. She would tell us things her teacher at Pre school says when they play "Simon says". One of the guys said "Simon says to turn off the light" and he turned it off. Heidy didn't like that, so she said "JESUS said turn on the light!" We started laughing and they turned the light back on and I told Doris, our exchange student, who was up front with me, Heidy pulled out the big guns on that one!! She knows who rules!!

Heidy - Post surgery

This is the hardware they took out of Heidy's leg. It's not a great picture but you get the idea. The plate is about 2 1/2 inches long and the screws are between 3/4 and an inch long. Mark thinks it looks like a piece out of an erector set!!

Here she is the evening of her surgery at home. Trying to smile.

This is the next day, with her balloon from her pre school, Wee Kare. I thought it was very nice that they sent her something! She had someone else bring her a vanilla milkshake and friends came to see her, she is loved. :-) Here is a little better smile..... But if I heard "Mommy, come HERE" once I heard it 500 times the past two days. Ok maybe that is a SLIGHT exaggeration, but not by far!!!!

Her bandage that we can't remove at all for a week. I have to give her sponge baths and wash her hair in the kitchen sink. She loves that part!!

Look Mommy, I can walk!! She finally decided to put weight on it, she was scared to do that before. I don't blame her though, I would have been too. But once she decided, Oh I can walk she is walking all the time. She loves the Elmo balloon and this is a real smile!! Oh and notice the shirt???? "It's all about me, me, me!!" This week that is true, it has been all about her!! :-)

Pray for Heidy tomorrow..... on November 7th

Tomorrow on Nov. 7th, please remember Heidy in prayer. That is the day we get the plate and screws out from her hip surgery. I added pictures of the two casts she had and the brace. She won't have either tomorrow, thank God!!

In her orange pumpkin cast.....

Her Christmas red cast.....

Another of the red cast, but she was getting around so well!!

And finally her brace, which she broke and started walking befor she was supposed to!!

Pictures by Sissy Skyler

Skyler loves to take pictures. I think she will be a photographer someday!! She is very good!! These are pictures she has taken of herself and Heidy.


Without glasses...... Isn't she pretty?
The Stinker....
I'm thirsty.....Having fun in the outback.... (of my house)

The babies, big and small.... (Bubby Chad, Milady's husband)

Peace out......

I do, I do, I dooooooooo.....

Kissing Cousins posing .....

Sometimes.....

Heidy's version of the "olly"

The artist and Cub fan among all the Cardinal fans..........

Don't you all agree, Skyler is good at taking pictures??