Florida 2009

Girls on the way!

Maci

Heidy and Eden

Donnie and Maci, Mark and Heidy and Eden

Baby Berkeley came to see us!

Berkeley and "Uncle" Donnie

Aunt Eden and Berkeley

Berkeley and her sucky fingers

Aunt Heidy and Berkeley

I love this one of Maci! Peyton and Heidy in the ocean! Venus Beach...
Skyler with Eden and Heidy
Mark in his favorite position at the ocean
The girls in their cover ups
Maci
The Farmer's kids... Maci, Whitney, Dillon and Peyton
Our kids... Heidy, Skyler and Eden
We went to an outlet mall and it was close to closing time and as we were checking out our girls decided upon themselves to be models in the window of Children's Place. Gina and I didn't know but a couple of ladies came in smiling and talking about the "models" and I ran to take pictures!

Heidy and Eden in their chairs on the beach at Siesta Key
The big and little kids in the ocean.
Daddy and girls showing off muscles!!
Went to Sharkey's on the Pier, the girls wore their pillow case style dresses that I made them.


Of course "modeling" them too
The Farmers....
My favorite of Maci!
All of us!
Mark and me
The girls

I love this one of Skyler carrying them and they are looking back at me.

This is the summary of the trip... all smiles!!!

Gina and her girls... Me and my girls
Daddy and his girlsSkyler and Dad

Heidy

Eden Eden and Heidy
Donnie and Mark
Heidy caught a crab

Heidy and her pet crab that we let go!!

Eden Our shade!!

Mark, the cook!

Donnie, the cook! The guys did great!!

Heidy

Eden

Heidy holding Berkeley

Eden holding Berkeley

Maci holding Berkeley

The three of them holding her...

Gina and the girls!

Maci
Eden

Skyler

Heidy

Berkeley in her shades!!

Dillon sleeping on the way home!!

The girls slept a lot on the way home!!

My entry way when we unloaded!! This was the best vacation EVER!!!!

Sleep over -- FFF # 46

The theme is Red, White and Blue, but we did that in the post below, so enjoy both......

Heidy and Eden had a sleep over..... Maci and Madi came over...

They had fun dancing around and doing gymnastics

Congo line..

The four Amiga's
Getting ready to sleep...

We forgot, we want pink milk aka Strawberry Milk.

The next morning, they were playing doctor... Of course Heidy was the Dr. She loves her Dr set and says she wants to be a hip surgeon, like Dr. Loder. We have given her old medicine bottles, old wrist braces, she has her arm brace for when they put IVs in.

They had a blast!! I was worn out from sleeping on the couch in the room with them....

4th of July

Hope you all had a great 4th of July!

We went to the Farmer's that night and had dinner, hot wings, porkchops and lots of other goodies!! We also made ice cream in a bag. Lots of fun and lots of shakin goin on!!

Here the girls are shakin the ice cream!! They had fun!
My ice cream with caramel syrup on it!!

FFF # 45 Home and a Heidyism on living...

This week I had to to go home for a sad thing for us and a happy thing for my Aunt Margie. She went to Heaven to be with Jesus. She is fully healed and her old self again and having fun in Heaven, seeing her mom and other relatives and friends she has missed. But most of all she is praising Jesus and will forever. Yes, we miss her, but would we call her back in her present condition, no way!

This is the 10 of us cousins that were there. The 5 on the left are Margie's kids. My brother and I are in the middle and the 3 on the right are my other Aunt's kids. It was good seeing them all!!

This is Heidy asleep on the way. After she woke up she had a lot of questions about my Aunt. What she said last was pretty profound for a 5 yr old. Here was our conversation ....

H: Mommy I like your Aunt Margie's name.
Me: you do?
H: Yes I really do. But why didn't she come back to life?
Me: Well, God has a time for us to be born and live and then He also has a time for us to die and go to Heaven with him, if He is living in your heart.
H: ok . No mommy our body doesn't go.
Me: Honey, the part of our body, the heart and the soul, that loves Jesus goes to Heaven with him. We get new bodies in Heaven.
H: Well, you know when Jesus comes back to town, we will all wake up and be with Him!
Me: Wow Heidy, you are absolutely right!!!

I never heard it put quite like that but the same principle is there. I think she "gets it" more than a lot of adults do!!!