Sienna's Birthday - June 11th

Happy Birthday Sienna!!! You are such a blessing we love you!!!


Daddy and Sienna by her birthday count down sign


Sienna by her birthday castle cake!!!


Sienna and Sayer


Sienna and Seth


Sienna and Stasia


Sienna and Sabrina


Sienna and I


A Birthday Prayer

Remembering Jamestown

I can't believe that it has already been a year since we went to Jamestown. That was such a wonderful week and one that I will never forget!!! Remember Jamestown and the great things that God has done!!!

This video is of the fireworks during the closing ceremony of the Jamestown Quadricentennial celebration June 16th, 2007. I hope you enjoy them as much as we did. I just love the National Anthem playing in the background!!!

Very Exciting News!!! Praise The Lord!!!

We have some very exciting news that we wanted to share.

Mommy is going to have a baby!!!

She is due the beginning of December. We are all so excited for this wonderful blessing that the Lord has given us!!!

"Behold, children are a gift of the Lord; The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. How blessed is the man who has his quiver full of them!"

~ Psalm 127:3-5

Family News Update

Well, once again I am desperately behind in blogging!!! Time seems to be going by like a whirlwind!!!

We are so thankful to be able to say that mommy's ankle is doing much better and that she can walk on it again now.

We are now getting about 70 eggs a day on average!!!

The weather here has been unusually hot!!! We have been getting a lot of severe thunderstorms. A few weeks ago, one storm produced 7 tornadoes just to the east of us. Then last week, we were without power on three different occasions due to all the storms we had! I love the thunderstorms that we get and greatly enjoy tracking them with radar!!! I am our families' weather girl (in case you didn't know that already :) and I love to keep us updated!!!

Well, I hope everyone enjoys the new posts that I FINALLY got around to publishing. :) I'll try to post again soon without letting another two months go by!!!

~ Savannah

A Very Nice Visit With Cousins May 30-June 2nd

We had a very nice visit with Daddy's niece Lori and her husband and kids. We were excited when the baby, Marcelino started crawling for the first time!!!


Left to Right: Lori, Andres, Julian and Marcelino


I think this is such a cute picture!!!


Going...


Going...and..


He got it!!! Yeah!!!

Stasia's Baptism May 25th

Sunday, May 25th was a very special day. As a testimony to her faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, Stasia Grace was baptised. Justin Southerland was baptised too. It was so wonderful!!!


Before the baptisms, Daddy and Mr. Southerland both shared a little.


Daddy and Stasia talking about why she was going to be baptised.

Daddy baptised Stasia in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.





After church, my younger siblings played in the swimming pool.

A Wonderful Visit With The Southerland Family May 24

May 24th, the Southerland's spent the night with us. We had a wonderful time fellowshipping with them and it was a lot of fun!!! I tried to snap a few pictures which didn't turn out, but the following one is of Brittney teaching me to ribbon embroider. It was very enjoyable!!!

A Wonderful Visit With The Ockers- May 18th

The Ocker Family spent the night with us and church was at our house the next day (it is at our house for the month of May). It was a very nice time of fellowship. I regret to say that I forgot
to take any pictures!!! We were having to much fun!!!

Mother's Day

Here are some pictures of mommy's Mother's Day flowers. Happy Mother's Day Mommy, We Love You!!!

Sayer's 3rd Birthday May 5th

May 5th was Sayer Stonewall's 3rd birthday!!! He is such a precious little brother and brings so much joy and laughter to our home. We love you!!!


Daddy and Sayer in front of Sayer's countdown sign.


Sayer enjoying his birthday dinner.


Sayer getting ready to open his presents.


Seth and Sayer


Stasia and Sayer


Sienna and Sayer


Sabrina and Sayer


Savannah and Sayer


Daddy putting Sayer's new car thing together.


Other people enjoyed Sayer's new toys too. Sabrina and...


Daddy!!!


Sayer blowing out the candles on his birthday cake.

My Surprise Birthday Celebration May 4th

The Sunday after my birthday, our church family held a wonderful surprise celebration for me!!! We had another birthday tea party too!!! I had no idea that they were going to and was so excited. Some friends of ours who aren't normally at church joined us for the celebration too. It was such a happy day. Everyone was so good to me and I still can't believe all that they did!!!


The beautiful tea table


More pictures of the tea table


Yet another picture of the tea table!!!


The women preparing the food.


Everyone did so much for me!!! All of the gifts were things that I can put in my hopechest and save for my own home someday.


Getting ready to open gifts. Brittney Southerland sat by me and recorded what each person gave to me.


Daddy spoke a little about what he had talked to me about on my birthday. The 7 missions of the Christian home.


The onlookers


A birthday hug


Mommy then gave me one of my gifts. A recipe book with memories to go along with them. She arranged for all the ladies in church to give me one of their family recipes and a memory about it. Mrs. Ocker took it a step farther and surprised us with recipes from friends across the country. Thank you to everyone who participated and helped to make my day a special one. I greatly appreciate it!!!


Below I'll review just some of my gifts...

Our church family all got me a beautiful sliver tray. They had inscribed on it our church name and my birthday. It is so pretty!!!


The Southerland family got me this beautiful table runner.


The Walker ladies made me this fun apron. I love patriotic colors!!!


Melinda Blevins and I


Opening my gifts


The McCurry family and I


The Walker ladies and I


Selah Ocker and I


The Ocker family gave me this beautiful tea set.


Sabrina made me this wonderful travel sewing kit holder!!!


Getting ready for the cake. Mrs. Blevins made it to where each of the girls pulled a ribbon with a charm on it out of the cake. Each charm represented the character of a women from the Bible. The women and character qualities represented were as follows: the faith of Sarah, the loyalty of Ruth, the wisdom of Deborah, the courage of Esther, the prayers of Hannah, the joy of Elizabeth, the strength of Abigail, being helpful like Pricilla and the heart of Mary. Mrs. Blevins also made me a beautiful charm bracelet with the above theme. It is a reminder of the wonderful character traits of the Godly women in the Bible that are important for women to still follow today.


It was such a happy day!!! Everyone was so good to me and blessed me more than words could tell. Thank you to my dear church family for making my 16th birthday so special. May Our Dear Lord Bless Each of You Richly!!!