Devin was presented with his Wolf badge and I was asked to pin it on him. Then he was given a little Wolf pin and asked to pin it on me. He thought is was cool that I was given a pin to wear too! He was also awarded with a gold arrow badge and SIX silver arrow badges! I am so proud of him, he worked so hard. I think that it is obvious that he was pretty proud of himself too!

It was kind of special that he was able to get his badges in front of his friends instead of having to wait until we moved and be in front of strangers. Great big thanks to the scout leaders who work so hard for the kids!!

Kristina, Dixie, Heidi, Devin, Jacoby, Kendra

My favorite little guy and I. (Favorite under the age of 8!)

My Birthday Adventure. . .

These are some pictures from my 30 something birthday this last summer. Don and the kids took me to McCall for the day. We played in the water, went ice skating for the first time ever, and went out to dinner. It was a blast! We ate outside at a Mexican food restaurant on the balcony. Below us was an art show with live musicians playing. The kids even had the staff sing happy birthday to me while I had to wear a large sombrero!

Kristina and Devin made me birthday breakfast muffins! My favorite.

We forgot to bring swimming suits so Don had to taxi the kids to out to the rock. They couldn't believe all of the fish they could see. Nice legs babe!!

It's a good thing they provided buckets for the newbies. Devin's favorite was having us push him around while he sat on them! Kristina took to the skating like she had been doing it since she was born!

Crabby Patties or Cool Cucumbers?

I don't think that Don and Devin were really crabby, but they sure look like it! This was last summer at the park watching a group of entertainers called Rhythmic Dogs. They were really cool. They made music out of banging on things. For the rest of the summer I was 'lucky' enough to have the kids treat me to my own private armature concert almost every day!!

Sweet Summer

These were taken last summer during our New Mexico trip. The look on Devin's face seems to say it all!

This is from the day that we closed on the sale of our house. I have a picture of us at the same place the day that we bought it too, but it is a paper picture. I so miss my nice, newish, big house. Granted we couldn't live it and move to New Mexico at the same time, but I still miss it! *Sigh*

As you can see, Kristina is posing for the camera, as always! Dianne Jurries was our agent. She was the best! Here goes another shameless plug for one of my Weiser favorites!!!....

We had never met Dianne before listing our house with her. She was wonderful, going above and beyond for us. I would not hesitate a second to recommend her to every one I know. She was so great that I now consider her a true friend. Thanks Dianne for making such a sad thing for me a little bit brighter!

If you are looking to buy or sale in this neck of the woods I strongly urge you to check her out at Creed Noah Real Estate co. www.creednoah.com

Pancakes and Prayers

The kids and I made up a batch of apple cinnamon pancake snackers (mini cakes) and delivered them to a couple of families that we are really going to miss when we leave. Below is the message we shared with them when we made our deliveries. We each had our lines to read, but Kris had to take over for me when I choked up! The bible tells us that faith is to hope for things which are not seen, but which are true.

That means to believe in something that we can't see.

Our hearts tell us that our faith in God is true and right.

Our hearts also tell us to have faith in many different things through out our lives.

Friendship is something we can't see, but also believe in.

Our God is a kind and loving God, and we believe that he gave us friendship to better our lives.

We find love, joy, and peace in our friendships.

While our friendship with you may change over time, it will always be there.

Something we can't see, but will hold dear to our hearts forever.

Book Club

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Here you see some lively discussion at my book club meeting. It was a great last meeting for me. We read Snowflower and the Secret Fan. Don't remember who it was by, but it was a very good book and led to a great debate.
As promised to Jen W. I didn't post the funny faces picture!!!

My 2 cuties! Showing off their new outfits. We only have 9 more days until we see Don and 11 more until we pull out of Weiser for the last time!! I am constantly trying to fight off the tears now. Sunday, at church was really hard! We are so going to miss all of our friends and family!

Subway

I was taken out to lunch today by two of my most favorite people, Tara and Brayden! We went to Subway and I ate up every minute of it! It is so fun to watch kids at this age, they find every thing so fascinating and try to mimic you constantly. Thanks guys for the treat!

Brayden had a little trouble trying to give kisses while wanting to look at the camera at the same time!

One of the Pohl cats had to take a trip to the vet a few days ago. Poor Thomas! Was a cat bite that got infected, so the vet had to cut away the bad skin. Gross! He is forever getting into cat fights. I guess his name fits, Tom, he is a true tom cat!!

Devin's doesn't look so enthused! But it's obvious Kristina sure loves her brother.

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My dad

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My mom and Tillie.
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Kris and I shortly after we moved to Nebraska.

Check out my big hair!

1999

Helping daddy shave.
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Kristina playing with Devin's feet.

Little did she know in just a mere 8 years, his feet would be bigger than her own!!!

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This is how Don and Kristina would tend to our little strawberry patch. Don would pick them and hand them over to Kristina for safe keeping, but she would always eat them, thinking he didn't know what she was doing!

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At the Litte Miss Nebraska Pagent in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Kristina took 5th place!

Summer or 2000

Kristina sure loves her Aunt Jackie!
March 2000

Granikins and Devin. We sure miss you guys!!!
March 2000

This is the day that Devin was born. There were 5 babies in the hospital at the time. Devin was the only one that was in NICU, which just happened to be at the other end of the long nursery room. That's how it's done in small town Nebraska! :)

March 27, 2000

Little Love Bugs

I found some old picture on some disks today. It was a nice, tear invoking, surprise!