Forever...

It has been forever since I have updated.  I check the blogs I read a few times a week and I would tell myself I needed to update my blog but seemed to always have a reason to put it off.  Sorry!

Important news first:  We have adopted Timothy!  He is ours...forever!  So excited that our family is complete now.  He will be three next month and in August will start preshool in a special program designed for kids that are deaf, hard of hearing, or have cochlear implants.  I am sure he will thrive in this new environment, once he gets over the change.  He does not like change very much.  But he is so cute and we love him.  He is almost as big as Dietrich now and still growing.

Savannah is a fun loving three year old now.  She loves all things girly and snuggling with mom and dad.  She is the most prone to sickness out of the five, but even when she is sick, she can still make us smile.  We are starting the wonderful potty training journey and hope that it goes fairly smoothly.

Dietrich is a big five year old now.  He is very excited about starting kindergarten in the fall.  He loves Lego's and Ben 10 and all kinds of pretend play.  He has two best friends and is just a great boy to have in our family.

Evelyn is seven and a half, that half is very important!  She is almost done with second grade and has done well this year.  She is turning out to be more of a tomboy than I first thought she would be, but she does still enjoy the girly things too.  She is very excited about getting baptized in a few months when she turns eight.

Devan is sixteen already!  And has his license and a car.  Oh my, how the time has flown.  He is looking for a job now to help pay for the bills generated by having a car.  He did Ovation again this year and had a lot of fun with it.  Not sure if it will fit in his schedule next year, but we will see.

Jessie and I are coming up on our fourteenth anniversary!  I can't imagine my life without him or the kids and am so happy that we started out on this crazy path so long ago.  The choices we made, the places we've been, the people we've met have all helped us get to this crazy yet wonderful point in our lives.  Thanks to all of those that have helped throughout the years.

Anyways, got to get back to the kids, half-day today so they are home already.  Till next time...

Day seventeen...

We are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond. ~Gwendolyn Brooks

So Jessie had to work from home last night and I was unable to access to computer to post.  But I did get my pictures done and on the computer.  This is my great-great-grandfather Valentine Stephan and his wife Jane Easterfeling(Isfording).  Last October I got very into doing family history and was finally able to identify who these folks were.  I was very excited.  I also connected with a distant family member who had a ton of information about this line.  With all of it, I made my mother a keepsake book of The Stephan line.  It was one of the coolest things I have ever made and she has really enjoyed it.  Now that I am done with that project, I am trying to get back into doing more family research and finding more names and connections in the family.