Isn't She Lovely?

Last Saturday was Dana's Winter ball for school. She had the nicest date, her friend Jay. She looked amazing-my only regret is that I didn't get a picture of her by herself (we were hurrying) I won't worry too much b/c Prom is only a few months away (wow-I guess I should just plant a money tree in my backyard with all these dances! ;)

I Double Dog Dare Ya!!

Just when you think your kids are really smart.......

Leah went outside to go ice skating at the park across the street on Monday nite. Paul was watching her from our front window having a great time. The next thing he knows she is crying and blood is streaming from her face. His first reaction is that she knocked out her teeth (does the story of Cameron sound familiar here?), no, that's not the case!!!

Leah decided the "lick" the frost off of a metal pole, panicked, and proceed to rip her tongue off the pole. We just went over the results of doing such a dumb thing last week while watching America's Funniest Home Videos when someone else did that!!!

Needless to say her tongue is quite raw and painful!! We now call her "Flick"!!

Leah's Friend Needs Your Prayers

Leah came home this week and told me that a friend at her school (who was always so little and sickly) was at Children's Memorial Hospital. I guess she was bumped to the top of the list for a heart transplant. Her mom emailed me last night and told me she almost didn't make it thru the night. Today she is going thru a 12 hour surgery for a heart bridge (?). You can visit her website at Carepages.com The user name is Memorialfamily and the password is mustangs. Then it brings you to another password and that is Sharebearreed.

It's pretty sad since I know that I take healthy children for granted everyday. It makes you realize how good you really have it. Leah has always had a heart for this girl, her dad tragically died while cleaning out his gutters and fell. We are also thinking of ways we can raise money for her family so if you can think of anything, requests would be great!

So prayers for the family would be great also!! Thanks!!

Happy Birthday to my Legal Adult !!!

Wow-Dana is turning 18 tomorrow!! I can't believe how fast that went!! I also can't believe all the fun and great times she has brought us!! Yes, she had her share of being a "teen" but over all I think she turned out awesome!! Happy Birthday Dana!! And I can't wait to see what you do with the next 18 years!!! Love you!!

Tulip's First Christmas

It seems that Tulip loves Christmas trees! I have a little tree in my kitchen and she loves to cozy up by it. Then when we put up our official tree, she adopted that one as her own!! Look how cute she is all snuggled under our tree, like a little present!! What you don't see is her trying to eat my tree skirt and lunging at me when I try to get her out of her favorite spot!!

Happy Turkey Day~Part Two

This year we had Thanksgiving at my sister in law's church-it was great because they had alot of things to do for the kids. So we didn't have to worry about them getting into trouble! We had a great time and great food!


Dana and and her fav Uncle Ryan having a heart to heart in-depth conversation. By the way, Dana cut her own hair, at least 5 inches-she did a pretty nice job! I love this picture! You really can't tell they are brothers!
At one point, Dana and I started taking pics of each other!
I know these are all of Dana but Leah and Cams were playing most of the time and I never saw them! Here's Dana and cutie Brett playing a tough game of air hockey-I think Brett won!

Happy Turkey Day~Part One

It was time once again for our annual Thanksgiving Day Hike-I thought it was a wash out b/c it was so cold and rainy the nite before, but it was beautiful out in the woods. Dana had to work and make the big bucks so we went without her :( Please don't look at our mismatched outfits, I haven't had time to coordinate winter wear yet!
This picture speaks for itself!
I took this great nature picture-so cool!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BOY!!!

Cameron James Lagestee turns "9" today!!! Cameron has been such a blessing to our family-he adds the sweetness and thoughtfulness to our family!! We thank God for him today (and every day :) !! We are celebrating with a kids party today. We will have a pinata and we are going bowling!!

My kids decided to make a leaf fort on Saturday. Do you see all the leaves in my backyard? Those weren't enough they decided-so they actually carried piles from our neighbor's yard and brought them over to our yard in gargbage cans!!Here's the finished product!! Pretty cool!
The pics don't really do justice on how big the fort actually was!

Christmas!

I officially started Christmas season!! I wrapped my first gift! I hope to finish wrapping the rest this week! I also am 90 % done with my shopping! I need to buy the rest of my kids stocking stuff, but I can't get myself to actually buy candy yet! Let the holidays begin!!!

It's all over!!

Well, it's officially over-Dana is no longer a Rebel Volleyball player. We wrapped up her season with a banquet on Tuesday. She made All-Conference which is quite an honor, area coaches vote for certain girls in the district. So that was cool-here's a few pics from the night. The good new is for us that Dana might decide to be a walk on player at Olivet (we are hoping since we love the game so much!)

I put this picture in for Cameron who had quite a crush on this girl, Kelly. He flirted endlessly with her! Of course Dana and Kalli, this will be the last time they are ever on a team together! So Sad!
The Whole Team one last time!

TULIP TUESDAY ON FRIDAY

I didn't have time to post on Tuesday, so all of you who wrote-here's TuTu! She was a witchbunny for Halloween-scary!
Everytime I open the frig-she comes right in-I was actually organizing the pop (yes,I take every can out and line them up)!

TULIP TUESDAY

I have decided to make up my own day "Tulip Tuesday" where I will show random pictures of our beloved Tu-tu! I'm sure it will bore everyone but me and Leah! You can tell where she chews on our woodwork-real nice!

Thanks for the memories!

These have got to be the worst pictures! Anyhow-Dana's last game ever was Saturday and unfortunately she was soooo sick with the flu. She was actually still throwing up an hour before her game. What a rotten way to end her last season !! We will really miss her playing and are trying to talk her into trying out for college ball. We have been watching her and her best friend Kalli play since they were 8 years old. It's weird to think they will never be on the same team again, so sad! I have a hard time seeing things end! ( Well, there's alway Leah :) :)

PRE HALLOWEEN FUN

Yesterday we started our Halloween fun by carving our pumpkins, this was the first year that Paul didn't have to help with the knives. Cameron made his a cyclop and Leah's has a surprised look. Dana will be carving hers tonight. Even Tulip got in on the action! (I almost burned her tail by putting her so close to the lit pumpkins!)

Seniors Night

Some clever mom made all these banners-cute!!
This is the blurry picture of us escorting Dana thru the arch-good thing it's dark and blurry-no one can see me bawling!! (I think Paul even got choked up)
Dana and the gang!! These girls made an awesome scrapbook for each senior girl!
I love this picture!!

Here are the pics from Dana's volleyball Seniors Night. This is a night where the school honors the Seniors on their last home volleyball game. Paul and I got to escort Dana out on the court to accept her flowers and stuff. I lost it the minute I got to the high school and saw all Dana's coplayers with these really cool shirts on that they had made. The shirts said nice things about missing the Seniors. These girls have gotten really close over the past 2 years. Then I really lost it when they introduced Dana and us, I think Mel has a video of it, which she is probably going to blackmail me with it. :) Over all it was a great nite to honor Dana and her 4 years of volleyball!! One week left of playoffs, then it's all done!! Boo-hoo!

p.s. Thanks to Melanie,Aimee, Todd and Pam & family, and of course Grandma Kathy to coming out to share the special night! It really means a lot to us!!

HOMECOMING 2007

Last night was Dana's Senior Homecoming~I have to say that she looked awesome~especially after playing 7 games of volleyball! She said it was the best homecoming she ever went to~she was even home 2 hours earlier than her curfew, even better she got up and went to church,what a good girl! Dana and her friend Mike
Ahh-Dana and her Pops! How cute! Nice pose Dana!!

I can't believe how old she is already~time goes so fast!!