Reunion

My daughter and me playing
and below is my sister Lori and I goofing off!!

The reunion was refreshing and really fun! My uncles were amazing. Thats all I can say. They all opened up like when I was a kid and remembered them being like. Family came I never thought would show up at an event like this. It was really a wonderful thing. I feel there may be some hope to come out of all of this. I am so excited that our family decided to start doing these reunions!

For those face book family members..I have these in the reunion photo album folder.

Family Reunion

Today is the first day of our family reunion for my mom's side of the family. Above are 2 pictures of my grandparents Walter and Pauline Gay. I am excited and will be taking pictures of course. We hope there is a good turn out. Hopefully families can put away their differences for a week-end such as this, that is important. Its time to move on..lets meet relatives and see our heritage..its our roots

Letter from my dad

Just go a letter from my dad. He sent me an old recipe book for "Guardian Service" food dishes. Has to be from the 50's. Really neat! I will hopefully remember to take pictures of it and post it here :)
He sounded like his old self. The part I miss about him. Not much else. Maybe, just maybe I have a feeling he wants to visit Oregon. Though I have a feeling it will be more focused on visiting family elsewhere more then me teehee..but that is ok I know he misses me..he did write Love dad and that means allow to me.

Prayers for Children...

Not to long ago our church had vacation bible school. It was really fun. As posted before I got the opportunity to take the pictures for the upcoming slide show for the last day of the event. There are so many blessings that are rearing itself since then. During the event one little girl looked at me and said "okay enough pictures now" I went to explain that I was taking pictures because she was going to be seen on a big TV screen (you know the ones in churches). She was like na ha. I said yes you will. She put out her hand so CUTE and said I bet I won't, and I put out my hand to shake it and when she had her picture on that screen she was so exited! (she was maybe Kindergarten age)
Last night in church was a special prayer service. The pastor tearfully talk about the children who attended and how around 17 of them do not have a place to go to, to learn about God and a few of the children are in homes that are not right (neglect/abuse) and how right after the event 3 (I believe) brothers/sisters were taken out of their home. The mother is a drug addict. He asked us to pray for not only those particular children but all the children who attended. He showed the slide show of pictures and asked each of us to let their eyes and faces burn in our souls and remember to pray for them. The little girl he(pastor) pointed out on the slide show was that of the little girl who was taken from her home, and the Lord gave me a heart for that hand shake in the event. Her beautiful image speared through me like a sword to my soul.

So as the slide show played each face came up my lip started to tremble, thinking about their souls. And after the slide show was over we were asked to get on our knee's for a special prayer for these children. I did and my body started to tremble..memories of childhood of watching my mom get almost beat to death came to me. God was allowing me to remember the this time in my life where I was so scared. Then He brought back that special moment when it was time to leave Oregon to get away from my step dad who beat my mom. My teacher Mrs. Wallas sat me in front of her and handed me a bag to carry my things and told me that I was special and she would miss me. She had so much concern on her face but kept her smile for me not to worry. We moved 2000 miles away with nothing but clothes on our backs. My mom with a beaten face and 4 kids who were scared to death.
When I moved back the 2nd time to Oregon after this I was already married and with kids of my own. I made sure to find Mrs. Wallas to thank her. She looked at me and started to cry . I hugged her, I let her know everything was alright and how the abuse stopped with me. She said Mary my husband is a preacher and all of those years our church prayed for your family. All this memory flooded back to me while on my knee's. I couldn't speak while leaving because when the Lord speaks to us, sometimes we are just silent. I am praying for God to show me how He wants HAIN to be apart of helping these children and praying for them as prayers once were prayed for me...Just had to get this off my chest.

4th of July

I have lots of beautiful firework pictures but don't want to post all 50 of them lolol they were so pretty what can I say :)

This is my beautiful daughter Julionna

There was a plane that dropped 4 sky divers that landed in a field close by. It was pretty cool

And this has nothing to do with the 4th except it was on a tree close by where we were sitting. A dragon fly.

4th of July is one of my favorite holidays. It is the celebration of our independence here in America. Thank you Soldiers and their families who keep us safe here at home.
Thank you Past, present and future soldiers who keep us free, independent and safe here at home!

Clay Pigeon Shooting

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Few shooting pics. We had fun! All the kids but Paul tried the shotgun. Fun times..

Vacation Bible School

This week we were involved in VBS. It was pretty fun. Our kids had a really good time. The theme was Australia and Peter, you know the one who denied Christ 3 times. It was good and the kids learned so much.
I took pictures for the final slide show on family night. Kids were awing and excited to see themselves on screen. It was neat.

Paul jumping to get ball. He may be a natural Basketball player :)

Gabe in Blue shirt making things

And Julionna with her best friend

Eggs

I posted one other time about a small egg with in our eggs..well here is a photo I took of an odd shaped egg, another small one. And a very larger one compared to the regular size egg.


Weird huh?

2 of my pets gone :(

One of my cats disappeared. We think a fox or something like that got her. It was not like her to leave. AT ALL. We had Muffy for 4-5 years. Bam Gone

And this morning Brian found one of my other cats who I cherished and loved killed by a car. Baby she was an all black cat. It was not like her to go in the road. I think Buddy one of our dogs chased her. I do not have a picture of her. She will be missed terribly. If its not one thing, its another.
I am starting to feel that once all my animals are gone, I am not sure I ever want to own anymore. I can't handle the heartbreak of losing them. It hurts to much.

New Baby

Say hello to our new buck.. he is a sweetheart. His name is Opie.

I bottle feed Opie 4-5 times a day. Milking the goat 2 times a day. From 5 am to 5 pm. I feel like a new mom and am tired. But he is so cute. He runs to me when I say his name. He is almost a week old.

Birds

So we thought they were all female Mallards...one is not apparently..Its molting and its colors are changing!! HOW COOL IS THAT?Anyone want a Mallard duck when they have babies?

If you look closer you can see baby chicks eating and drinking with one of our bunnies. They get along great.

Babies and momma outside for the first time together. So fun to watch!!


EDITED June 26th
This morning I found mom with a bunch of feathers missing and her baby chicks all gone. We are not sure if we have a weasel or a fox but whatever it is has been eating our eggs and some of my mom's chicks, pulling them through a whole. Not sure if its the same animal as the one doing it to my mom's chickens or not. Whatever it is only goes after the babies and eggs.

Family Get togethers

My son Gabe and his cousin Shania goofing off..I remember my cousins and I having fun times like this. Both of these two are clowns.

Brian holding our nieces son James

Gabe and me

Visiting my youngest sisters grandma, and who all I ever knew as grandma growing up.

Beauty of Spring

The beauty of Spring is here. Above is a close up the tree we have in our yard. The far away shot does not do justice for this tree of what you actually see in person!!! BEAUTIFUL!

Fishing

We had fun fishing this week-end. It was perfect fishing weather. We also went swimming in the Calapooia River but I did not take a camera when we went there. I wanted to get wet too ") It is so beautiful here in the spring/summer

Goodbye Beans

May 25th, 2009 My little beans snuck in the dishwasher while we were loading it and we did not know. My heart is broken though it was an accident the guilt is so strong at times I feel I can't breath and just cry and cry. This little ferret touched our lives in a joyous way. We will miss our bean bean forever!

Beautiful creation of God

This was Foster Lake, they are draining the reservoir so they can fix a crack and then going to allow the water back in. Took these pictures while visiting the park. It was a pretty site!

Family time at park

Julionna holding my nephew James, Paul, my nephew Cayden and Gabe in the back

Testing out the waters

Playing in small water fall

God's beauty and awe..Gabe

Julionna and my nephew James

Walk 4 Life

Brian and kids and my oldest sister Lori, her boyfriend and niece Ashlee behind Brian and tons more other people walking too. Great turn out this year!!

This church has this neat little memorial they put out every year for babies memory whom have been aborted.

Fun times

Celebrating my niece's 20th Birthday. We had a back yard fire (this was at my sister Kim's house) Good times when family is together. The top picture is me holding my niece Ashlee's baby, his name is James.