Just like Ellis Island..........well close

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

This is the Line to become a Citizen of the United States of America
( look who is in it, my husband)

Waiting

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert HooverUS mining engineer & politician (1874 - 1964)

The actual OATH OF CITIZENSHIP

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Woodrow Wilson

28th president of US (1856 - 1924)

The elated family
We almost look like we could have been at Ellis Island
( who no longer has to pay the government for random papers, take tests, or prove anything income or otherwise !!!!!)

First Attempt..........Beginners Luck ?

My First Attempt at WW Bagels
AMAZING
they stayed moist and fresh without being frozen
i just need to work on the appearance next time

 

Sunday ,Sunday

i cant decide wether Jaxsons being like me is a good thing...................

i went into the boyz room to get their Sunday clothes ready and this is what i found
next i hear the shower go on, 5minutes later and up the stairs comes a fresh * clean * fully dressed * Jaxson..................... i guess it is good, the problem comes when he expects everyone to be ready the moment he is


They sure clean up nice

JAXSON'S NEW CLOTHES & KICKS

my MOTHER took JAXSON
SCHOOL SHOPPING



then to MCGRATH'S
JAXSON'S favorite food FISH




a brief sampeling of the CLOTHING they got
most from this NEW STORE i love NAARTJIE

WHAT A GRANDMA !!!!

*************THEY HAD SO MUCH FUN i COULD HARDLY BE JEALOUS***********

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL- ONE

Jaxson Started Preschool Wednesday This is the traditional first day of school picture
It was Jaxson's idea to get him actually walking down the stairs
Here we are at the bottom of the stairs
Finally, oh...............so cute, such a big boy

Primer Dia de Classes Dos

Front of School
Jaxson just finished with his first Day
Showing me his first school "project" which he got out of his BACKPACK
tHE TrOOpS :
Jaxson, Abbey, Catherine, & Seth
all happy and very tired from a long day (3 hours) at Preschool 

LIaM & THe bEE

cAN yOu SEe IT sTaRTInG TO sWEll ??

............so the kids are eating breakfast & I am doing dishes ( inches away) all of the sudden cereal is flying everywhere and I hear the shriek ( anyone who has had a child stung before knows this sound because it is different from any other sound your child makes) then I see it the stinger sticking out the side of Liams milk covered nose.......................

oF COuRSE LiKE aNy SElf reSPEctiNG cHILd hE NEedEd a bAnDAgE
IT only GOT worse AS the DAY progressed


Forcing us to go to the doctor ( after hours)
who said
"looks fine to me, it'll prob be worse tomorrow it might even spred to his other eye"
THANKS ALOT

OH WELL, all is well that ends well
Liam has his former face back and we have bought bee spray for around the house!!!

he actually thought we'd let him go to church like this

picture by Angelo

Liam put this little number together Sunday a.m.
It was good for a laugh, not so good for church

Stay tuned I have tons to blog

 

6 months and Chewing

Hazel Jane

Happy 6 months

at

11 lb 2 oz

&

27 "

She is a wonder!!!!

She; rolls, bites, crawls, sits, falls, laughs, eats , sleeps, & giggles

My Love,...............

" The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)




"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. "

Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist & short story author (1860 - 1904)




"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

David Viscott
How to Live with Another Person, 1974





"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."


Karen Sunde

 

oRgANic LiVINg

aBOvE ARe aLL tHE ORGANIC INgREDiENtS
FOr My FAmILieS New FAV dINNer
oRgANic WHoLe wHeAT pIZZa



My new cook book has really inspired me to buy organic
and use white flour & sugar sparingly
The best is that my family is diggin' it
from whole wheat bread, ww bagels, ww pizza dough,ww waffles & pancakes, to ww crasin cookies ( all of which are only organic ingredients )


the fam is happy
I am becoming a much better cook
we are all becoming healthier

Unfortunatley for Angelo the next step is extremely limiting our red meat intake
( at most once a month) I really don't know how he is going to react

 

I sent my boyz to take a nap....................

I ToLD mY BoYZ tO gO
dOWnsTaIrs to tAKe a NaP

I went in to give them a hug, no kids then I spotted them

YOU MIGHT be able to see them IF YOU LOOK REALLY CLOSE


tHIS iS wHERE i FOUnd THem


tHeY sLEPT THE entire NAp THIs WAY

LOL

******nEVeR A dULL mOMenT

 

Hazel's First Bottle

We wanted to try a bottle out with Hazel for the first time, so I pumped and Angelo got to feed her!! She just took the bottle and drank it like she knew what she was doing, she wouldn't even let anyone else hold it. It is always so nice when Angelo gets to feed them for the first time, he was excited.

I turned around after having taken these pictures and the boyz were trying something new as well

hmm................i think i will let it go

They are always so interested in what I am doing, i guess they thought they would try it out

Pioneers wished they didn't have too.........I love too

my hubby teases me about my manual wheat grinder

I absolutely love it !!!

I guess I feel as though I am really working for the food I make, and that it is really fresh

so, every morning and night you can find me in the shed with my little wheat grinder, grinding away!!!!

I made delicious bran wheat muffins this A.M.

one more thing I wouldn't want to live without

a little note

in High School I used to eat bran muffins and grapefruit juice every morning

we had that breakfast this morning, I am feeling so nostalgic

taste really is related to memories