Saturday

Well, the weekend is here and I hope that you all have a wonderful time! I am missing Marlee - yes, I am missing my TEENAGED DAUGHTER with all of her drama!!! :) But I am glad that she is gone! I am glad because she is at Acquire the Fire with the church youth group! I am excited for her. She called me this morning to let me know she was having a good time, but she was not feeling very well last night. I have had a virus all week and Sydnee now has it and Marlee is feeling some of the same symptoms. Unfortunately it spreads like wildfire in a close family who hugs all the time! :) But anyway, Marlee is having a good time in spite of feeling badly. Larry and I took Kalee out to lunch today and we went to Sweet Tomatoes. Larry LOVES that place. It is ok to me and Kalee enjoyed the mac and cheese and soup. She was not too big on salads today. It is often hard to believe that I can leave Drae to babysit and things are always fine. It is hard to believe that the little boy that came to us so "damaged" as some say is now so trustworthy! God is good and He gets all the credit for that! Drae has become an amazing pre-teen! We are very proud of him!
We have been blessed by a neighbor. He asked us if we would like to move our horses to his pasture. He said we would have to repair the fence and all, but that they could move over there and graze to cut out hay bill down! We were extremely excited and took him up on his offer. Larry and Bryce took about 3 days this week and repaired the fence and the horses were walked across the street yesterday and must have thought they were in Heaven with green grass about ankle high!!! Then we brought them back home last night. That is our plan to let them graze there during the day and bring them home at night for their nightly feeding and to sleep! We feel blessed that he has done this for us!
Update on Keara and Brianna: they are adjusting well to their new mommy and daddy! They have done great in school this past week. Their mommy - Patrice - emails me daily and calls fairly often as well. We feel blessed in that area, too. I mean they could just shut us out, but they have chosen to maintain relationship with us and that is just awesome!!! So keep them in your prayers - it is working - all is going well!
Kourtnee started her job full time this week. She missed Sydnee - of course - but she knows she is in good hands :). Meme and Pappy adore her! She likes her job. She is teaching 3 year olds. She is still waiting on a job with the school system so keep that in your prayers. Sydnee is growing like a weed as they say!!! She was 10lbs and 10 ounces today!!!! She is getting so big so fast!!! She is smiling more and more everyday and cooing so much now!!!! Love this age!
TJ and Drae won first place in First in Fitness! TJ won the 100 yard dash and Drae won the Shuttle run. So in April they will compete in the county wide competition! we are very proud of both of them!!!
Kalee is getting taller by the day and I swear she is going to be like Drae and be taller than me by her teens!!! Geesh!! Although, I am short so that doesn't say too much :)! She is doing very well in school and getting better all the time with Claire (her pony). All 3 kids are planning to audition for the talent show after Spring Break - I will be sure to let you all know how that goes.
Kristofer hasn't changed much. He is actually getting much better about his fit throwing and we are hoping he is outgrowing that stage! (Thank GOD!!) :) He is so cute with Sydnee. He loves her to pieces!! He rides in the barrel races now. He rides Superman his pony - Kristofer Reeves on Superman - kinda catchy huh :)!!
Well, Larry and I are good - enjoying are family and especially our grandbaby and grandson, too last weekend! I think I fall more in love with him everytime I see him with Sydnee!!! That is one of the reasons I fell in love with him - his love for children and how he is with them! I love my man! I love my family!!!!
Have a blessed weekend!!!!

Catching up - My apologies!

Wow! I guess you never know who is reading your blog until you fail to blog for over a month! My apologies to the loyal friends who do read this! I cannot believe it has been a month since I did this! I know I am busy but geesh! I will TRY to do better but absolutely no promises! :) Life has been busy but wonderful here with The Reeves Bunch! Kourtnee and Sydnee are living with us now and we love having them both here. Kourt has a new job and it seems to be going well. Sydnee is growing so fast, we can hardly believe our eyes each day! She is becoming more and more vocal and smile all the time. All you have to do is look at her and say anything and she gives you the biggest smile ever! She is absolutely precious!! We were blessed this Easter Weekend to have all of our kids and both grand kids with us! It was an awesome weekend, with one exception. Saturday Keara and Brianna left to move to their new home with their new mommy and daddy. Don't get me wrong - we are thrilled about their new family, it was just very difficult watching them go. Keara had a very tough time leaving and that made Brianna have a tough time and it took a while for them to get in the van and go, but they eventually did. I have since talked to their mommy and have heard them in the background and all seems to be going very well thank God!! They have a very bright future and I am so happy for them. We also had Haven and Trinity with us on Saturday. Haven is a young lady who we had in our home for a very short respite while she was in foster care. She was pregnant and now of course has the baby. We had lost touch with her, but now are back and she has been here the past 2 Saturdays since we got in touch with her. We have just "adopted" them both so that is another daughter and grand daughter! we told her that once you enter our home no matter how long you are here you are our child forever!!! Alex, Angela and Aiden were here also. Aiden is getting so big, walking and talking some and just so adorable! We miss them, but are happy to see them when we get to/. Alex and Angela are doing well they are so happy and in love just as they should be! The other kids had a great time seeing their big brother and nephew and they enjoyed Easter. Saturday we had a big egg hunt here at the house and we had about 15 or so kids. we had 2 hunts one - under 4 and one for 4 - 12. It was a big hit. It was so last minute due to the plans for the girls departure that we were unable to invite everyone we wanted to invite. We also had Bryce, Maddy and their mom Penny from our 4H group with us. They have become family as well. I really think we should have membership cards for our family. If we charged membership fees we could get rich!!! :) Nah, we could never do that! We just love people! We love to share our Love and our joy and the blessings God has given us with others! So to recap the last month:
Larry and I celebrated our anniversary in Feb., Kourtnee and Sydnee moved in with us, kids are doing great in school, Barrel season started and Kristofer had his first run, Marlee is training a new horse - Sooner- for barrels, Easter came and went and we had a house full and a wonderful time, Ke and Bri have a new mommy and daddy - a forever family- and we love them! We are blessed!!!
I hope you all have had a wonderful month and I will do my best to blog more often.
Remember God is good all the time!!!