Double Digits. . . again

  Happy Birthday to Mom and Bethany!

 Bethany turned 22 and Mom turned 39 (ish).

Happy Birthday Mom!

Oh, and Happy Birthday  Bethany!

Wow, it has been forever since we put something up here. We are in our 5th month of having Gary home all day.  Bethany came home in October from Florida, she has transferred her license to Michigan and is now looking for a job up here. Abby also came home in October from being at camp all summer. She is babysitting at different times of the week and is busy looking for another job. Nathaniel is in his senior year of high school, he only has three classes so it is an easy year for him. Sarah is working at our local Library in town. I have not changed my duties or standings in the house. Jacob will be graduating this December from Pensacola Christian College.

 Random pictures below, will add Jacob and Bethany once I find a nice one of them both.

We  need  to update this more often. Bethany has left for sunny Florida. Lord willing she will find a job soon. She will be living with a young couple she met during her years on campus.
Jacob, Sarah and Nathaniel are all working at NBT this week at our Church. Nathaniel is a assistance for grade 5 & 6. Sarah is known as a floater, helping were she can. She started off doing registration during the first part of the week and has been part of the skit they are doing each day. Jacob is a main person in the skit and he is in charge of the children activities outside.
Abigail is at Camp Joy working in their kitchen and loving every moment. She is so good at her job that she will be staying at least two week more then scheduled.

PS...These NBT pictures are from last year. Will update this year once kids put on computer

Abby at Camp

Abby is having a great time at Camp Joy. 

She calls occasionally when she feels like it ;)

                                                  Abby and her friend Grace.
                         (They both work in kitchen together)

                                                         

                                         

                       They went out to the island one day and ended up
      running out of gas so it took them a while to get back to camp.

                                                   Congratulations to my two Seniors.
                                    Bethany from College and Sarah Rose from High School.

                                         Bethany graduated from Pensacola Christian College
                                         as a Nurse and will take her State test first part of June.
                           
                                         Sarah graduated from High School and will be working
                                           for a year before she goes off  to College.

Abby's Birthday

I'm not a teenager anymore! This past Tuesday I turned 20!

Kyla made me a cake. She was so proud of her work!

 Rachel and Joanna took me out to a Mexican restaurant, just so they could laugh, when these three guys sang and put whipped cream on my face. I'm still not sure why they did it, but it was fun. =)

I got to spend the day with Kyla.

 Kyla makes everything interesting and fun!

Easter Pictures

I hope you all had a great Easter! =) 

Sarah's Birthday

Lydia tried to surprise Sarah for her birthday, but let's just say that Sarah is too smart... lol

 Lydia and I set up a scavenge hunt, so she could figure out what her birthday gift from Lydia was...

 Sarah was a little confused...

 Finally after about 20 minutes of laughing at her, she figured it out.

Her gift? A trip to Chicago...

Happy 18th Birthday Sarah Rose

The Many sides of Sarah Rose

 A Few of her friends

very special trio

Indoor sliding

                                          
 Indoor slide anyone?? I had nothing better to do and it was wet and cold outside. Bethany was leaving to go to Texas later that day so I thought we could send her off after she had some fun. I enlisted Nathaniel and Bethany to help me.... Yep. extreme smarts going on over here! come up with a great idea then get someone else to do the hard labor to make it happen! We underwent many renovations to get the perfect slide, but after arduous work.....We had some fun!

 It was always a daunting task to climb back UP the stairs..er uh well, there wasn't stairs to climb on so more like it was a daunting task to climb up an incline simply using smarts.....There were a few not to bright moments when we ended up falling and sliding back down backwards after having a epic fail of climbing. =/

Once at the top, sliding down was simple. All in all we had a lot of fun. Oh, and did I mention that we managed to do this all while our Mummy was taking a nap?  Light bulb.

Happy 16th Birthday Nathaniel James Koski

 Abby and Sarah got up early and put balloons on his bedroom door.

 Sarah even got up before the sun, this is very unusual for this girl to do.