Happy Shining People: February 2011

Happy 6th Birthday Douey Girl!

I am not sure if it is normal to want to eat your kids but it is a real sensation for me and seems very normal actually. I have only met one other mother that can relate to this intense desire... of course I never would but oh, these children are so yummy! I have it bad with her, this sweet as sugar angel child. She is delicious to me in every single way. Her spirit is engrossing and extraordinary and SO desirable to me. There is an attraction that I have to her that only my spirit can translate. Oh my, it is fabulous and beyond any thing I could ever explain or describe. Perhaps it is in part that she is my only daughter and may ever be but she is unyielding in her appeal to me. "Love" is so entirely inadequate when describing the feelings I have for her.

Happy Birthday lovely. You are a gift of infinite proportions!

Birthday Extravaganza in Dallas

Our crew was graciously invited to go to Dallas to visit Ben's parents for a birthday extravaganza. Within a month there are 8 birthdays within the family so it seemed apropos to celebrate together. We had a great time, as always.

The ritual... Costa Vida. Everyone is so nice to always indulge my love for Costa Vida

The birthday crew!

Blowfish. I love Jadas reflection, giggling up a storm at the view.

Ben and his mom at the bowling alley.

Sweet Liz, was about to pop! She was a trooper.

Beny Lovers Birthday

Isn't he precious in every way. I already dedicated a post in honor of him for his birthday here
but here are a few birthday pics. Love you sugar!

Never mind that Douey and Burger have swapped pj's.. and were quite happy with it. They are funny little kids and very best friends :)

Doueys Buckle Fracture

In gymnastics one day in January our little bouncy, hopping girl twisted her ankle running of the mats and hurt herself really bad. It ended up being a buckle fracture in her fibula right down by her ankle. That resulted in her wearing this 250$ gadget for a couple of weeks. Sweet little trooper. She is a tuff cookie.

BIG 13! Eddies Birthday

Hard to believe we have a teenager. Time is bound to fly from here... so I am told. I ache inside everyday as I see my sweet children growing taller everyday. If it were up to me I'd keep them little and yummy forever. With that said, I have SO enjoyed every stage of being a mother. It is magic. Being a mother to lots of boys (soon to be 5 total) bestows it's own magic. They are my sweet boys. They are becoming the most incredible human beings and I revile in watching them bloom into their own beautiful beings. Loving them and nurturing them through this journey of adolescence in hard, challenging and strategic work but OH so rewarding and a wonderful joy to be apart of the magic.

1/12/98

This one child in particular has his own special spot in my heart. He was the 1st. He was the one that revealed to me the mother inside. He brought out the intensely passionate mother that I had no idea was hiding beneath her skin. He has taught me the most about who I am, why I am here and what my purpose is here in the wonderful thing called life. He brought that calling with him the moment he quivered in my womb. His first breath captivated me and assured me as to what it is that I am here for, being a mother is one of those fantastic things and I am so eternally grateful for the privileged of being his mother. He will alwasy be my baby no matter how tall he grows.

This boy, young man is tender, sensitive, sweet, gentle, eager to please, a peace maker and happy all the time. He is such a pure pleasure to have around and we love him crazy like.

Yep... Dr. Dre's got replaced.

CHRISTMAS Season 2010

We had a wonderful Christmas season this year. Filled with wonderful memories, traditions and lots of rich meaningful family time. We had the boys with us this year and those are always the best ever. Unfortunately part of the collateral damage of sharing a camera with your husband is that pictures can easily get deleted without your approval or knowledge :( That is what happened with our Christmas photos (boowoo). I am all puckered up with grief because of that lose. OH it hurts! Our videos etc... gone....So here is a snippet of what we did manage to have via iphones and our other camera from the holiday season 2010.

Hackings Christmas Party

Eddies little Christmas get together with friends. Aren't their footsies silly. Funny kids!

Burger Boys Christmas program at preschool.

Christmas morning train down the stairs.

True to form. Our sweet little selfless Burger didn't even acknowledge that he had a pile from Santa too. He was SO interested and excited for Douey showing her all of her things. It wasn't until we told him that he had somethings also that he noticed. It was precious in every single way!

Post Christmas we traveled to Utah to see family. On our way we had a sad little experience in Albuquerque. Some of you know the sad story. We pulled into a brand new hotel in west Albuquerque. From all appearances it seemed to be a safe area but it was dark, about 11 pm at night. We literally just grabbed our toiletry bag and my purse and in we went. Right...?? why would we bring in everything for a family of 7 for just a few hours sleep..? Well, never again. We got a call in our room at 10 to 7am saying that they "regret to inform us that our back window had been broken" we gathered our few things and rushed down. Sure enough it was broken and everything was taken. ALL our luggage. Everything, gone. It was so sad. Eddies new 300$ Dr. Dre headphones = gone. All the kids coats = gone. All their new Christmas clothes = gone. It was really just so sad. And what jerks would do something like that? Scum. Anyway... needless to say we spent a small fortune this Christmas. We had nothing... in fact some of the kids didn't even have any shoes. SO once we did a little recovery shopping at Target and got our window replaced we traveled 10 hours to New Harmony into the loving arms of family. Such a relief but we all carried that experience with us for the week. Like a little monkey on your back, such a violation. Upon our return we had to relive it again as we all realized again the missing things we once enjoyed. Thankfully it was just "things" and we were all safe. People are MUCH much more important than "things" and they didn't take our car so all things considered we were blessed and our theme song for that trip was appropriately "Count Your Many Blessings".

Day one travel - Pre-break in

Post break in

Upon our arrival at the ranch we loved every minute of it. Being with family is fantastic. It was SO cold. The kids loved playing in the snow, and playing with cousins.