Congratulations Aaron

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR MASTER ELECTRICIAN

Aaron passed his master's exam and is now a master electrician! We are very proud of him! He works so hard everyday and definitely deserves this! We praise God for His faithfulness to Aaron! This is such a blessing for him! Way to go Aaron! We love you!

Sorry

I have been trying to post about Jayna's 7th birthday, but I can't retrieve the pictures from out computer for some reason. I am sorry. I have a few posts to do, but each of them involve pictures. Maybe I can get it working this weekend. Aaron is going to have to look into this one. Keep checking, we will be back soon.

Our Newest Family Member

Meet Sean. He is our newly inherited son. While Sean has his own original family, he has decided to be a part of ours too. He says that since Aaron will never have a son of his own, then he will fill the role, and he does this quite well. He fits in perfectly. He and the girls even pick on each other like real siblings. (Notice he is wearing Jayna's pink hat in the picture...what a brother!) We love Sean! We also love his friends that hang out here. (Now Sean will feel like a full part of our family since he is on our blog.)

4th of July

4th of July was a busy day for us because we were running a garage sale at Grandma Hess'. We had a fun day, but really didn't feel like going anywhere after that, so we had our own little celebration at home. We had a campfire, where we roasted sausages and marshmallows. The kids had a ball playing together! Then, we had a great fireworks show thanks to Aaron and Sep. It was very nice night.

Look at this beautiful smile!
Tucker and Autumn each had their own ride. This cut down on the arguments.
Jayna loves playing with Tucker and Toby. Toby enjoyed the show very much. Here he is raising his hands in approval.
Autumn spent the whole time saying "all done." She voiced it and signed it. I think she thought this would make her point more known. At least she had her grandma for comforting.
Tucker and Jayna sure enjoyed the sparklers. It was fun to watch them!

The Library Cards

Here they are, two sweet girls with their new library cards. They each got a book and are busy reading. We have lots more to share, so I will try to get to posting. Stay tuned...

Summer Days

O.K. here is my second attempt at this since I ruined our site with the last one. I am super blessed to be a teacher, so I get to spend my summer days with the girls. The first week was Jayna's surgery, as well as VBS in the evenings. The second week I had a class all day everyday (I need to take six credits this summer to keep my certificate.). Finally, this week seems as though we are starting our summer. I thought I would give you a glimpse into our fun days together.

On Monday, we had to go to the Dollar Store, flower shop and a friend's house. While at the Dollar Store, Autumn provided us with entertainment. I needed something on the top shelf and couldn't reach it of course, so I got a stool and stretched as far up as I could (no short jokes please). As I was doing this, I heard Autumn's little voice, "Caresul Mommy. Don't sall." I had to get down because Jayna and I were laughing hysterically. As you can see, she has heard this before...

Yesterday, Jayna had an appointment with the surgeon. She got her new orange, writable cast. She is super excited and wants everyone to sign it. She even had her Dad's Bible study guys all sign it last night. She is healing perfectly and will get her cast off for good on July 29th! Praise God for healing her! Also, yesterday afternoon we had the privilege of playing with Tucker and Toby while their mom got her hair cut. We had a super fun time!

Today, we are going to the library (if I can get this post done), so Jayna can get her own library card. Then, after lunch we are heading to Grandma Hess' to set up for our rummage sale. Come by on Friday if you would like some of Jayna and Taylor's yummy cookies and lemonade. Here is a picture of my beautiful reader...

*Sorry, Jenny. Your comment deleted when I deleted the last post. Thank you for your sweet message though.

Jayna's Arm

As we told you, Jayna broke her arm on June 5th in gym class. She had her first surgery that night to set the bones and clean out the open wound. Her arm was then put in a full arm cast and a sling. She spent one night in the hospital and came home. She was super brave and calm before and after the surgery! We were so proud of her! We went back to the surgeon the next week and found out that the bones were not set anymore and further surgery needed to be done. She had this next surgery this past Wednesday. Dr. Goethe put in elastic titanium nails in each bone. He had to make an extra incision than planned for the radius bone because it was off so bad. She spent another night in the hospital. Once again, Jayna was super brave and calm. She has done an excellent job with all of this! Now, she is recovering and feeling better everyday! PRAISE GOD ALL HE HAS DONE FOR JAYNA! Thank you for your prayers! July 1st is her next appointment. This is when she is supposed to get a PINK cast (still full arm) that her friends can sign! The nails will be surgically removed in 6-9 months. Here is what she has been up to lately: cuddling with her sister...
enjoying visits from special friends like Amber and Michelle... working on a memory book with people like Grandma Ellie...
playing school with friends like Aric...
and doing art projects. She also gets on the computer, reads books, plays games and goes outside as much as she can tolerate, along with many other things. This hasn't slowed her down too much, but there are times when she needs a rest. She is a champ in our books!