Bri's birthday.........

 

 

Yesterday was Brianna's birthday. My 3rd born came into the world at 7:35p.m. on a Friday, Dec. 30th 1994. She is now 13 and she is officially a teenager. What!!! We started the day off with baked oatmeal and then church. Came home and I made her a Chinese meal with shrimp. She loves shrimp! Later we opened her gifts and had her cake and icecream. Then my good friend (the other white Carol) and her son picked us up and it was off to the IO party at Prince St. Cafe. It was very crowded but it was a very fun evening. There was a lot of good thought and hard work put into the night and we all benefited from it. Plus we had all the coffee, cookies and pizza we wanted. A good time was had by all I think.

Hairspray............

Bella and I just finished watching "Hairspray" the musical tonight. I know I'm a little on behind seeing this movie since it's been out on DVD for a while now. But we laughed it was a fun movie to watch. Also the other day was my birthday the 26th to be exact. Edwin and I went out for pretty much the whole day. It was so nice but the day went so fast. Started the day off with with a great latte from Prince St. Cafe then it was on to the movies, shopping, and dinner. So my next question is do you all like to go out for New Years Eve or stay home. My vote is stay home. I like to watch movies and have great snacks and watch the ball drop and then bed. Maybe that's boring to some but for as long as I can remember I have never cared for going out for New Years Eve.

Christmas Day

Christmas morning woke up around 8. I made baked oatmeal and sausage for breakfast. We opened our gifts with the kids first. Edwin surprised us all and got us a Wii. It's lots of fun to play. Then later Erika, Hector, and the kids came over and they opened there gifts. Later in the day we headed down to mom's for our family gathering. Bella and I drove seperately. Before we got to mom's we went to visit Daddy's grave. Just about the whole way I was fighting back tears but finally just gave in at the grave site. This season was definitely harder then Thanksgiving was. Got to mom's and we all cried some more. But as my good friend Joanne said it's a good thing to cry. Mom made ham for sandwhiches and we had salads and snack foods buffet style and we munched through out the day. Later in the day we exchanged our $5.00 gifts.
Our family friends Lizzie and Naomi came over as well as later in the day my Uncle Glenn and Aunt Fannie and Jerry and Dawn and there family came over as well. One big happy family. In the pictures you will see mom crying. I gave her some old pictures of Daddy that I had gotten framed for her as well as I had the only family photo of us that we know of when us kids were little restored. The picture turned out great. We all had a good day together. But it definitely wasn't the same without Daddy.

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Christmas eve

We spent Christmas Eve at our church service first. It was beautiful as usual. It's such a beautiful time of worship and pondering on the miracle of Christ's birth and the sacrifice that was made for us. Only one thing I would do different next year and that is lose the battery operated candles. I would rather not have them at all then hold those candles. Cast your vote are you for or against the fake candles?
After the service we went to Edwin's mom and stepdad to get together for our meal and the kids exchanged gifts. It was a fun night with lots of people and singing christmas songs and eating lots of food as you can see from the pictures. Christmas day was spent here in the morning opening gifts.

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today...............

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Care group Christmas dinner

Our caregroup had a lovely evening at the Boronow's home. For the last two years we have been doing a simple but delicious meal of soup, salad, bread/crackers and dessert. I think Karla's idea of keeping it simple is a great one. Anyone else do any caregroup dinners? What did you have or do?

Eagles over Cowboys.....

Eagles laid down the law and took the Cowboys to school on Sunday. Oh yes it felt soooooooo good. In an otherwise dismal season this win made there record not feel so bad. It's always a fantastic day when we beat the Cowboys. And what was even better was we beat them in there own house. And the cherry on the top was Litto Shepard all over T.O. and held him to very little yardage and zippo TD's.
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!!!!

Mrs. Phoebe Mellinger

This past week my forever friends mother passed on to be with her Savior. I don't have any pictures of Phoebe so I posted a pic of Joanne and Eric. Phoebe was one of the sweetest and kindest people I've ever had the priveledge of knowing. If you were at the memorial service you heard many wonderful things about her and I can attest to knowing first hand that what was spoken was the truth. Phoebe would have been embarrassed probably by her family and her dear friends glowing testimonies of her because she was a humble woman. What is a blessing to me is that Mrs. Mellingers many wonderful attributes are alive and well within Joanne. Joanne is so much like her mom. Mrs. Mellinger definitely passed on her graciousness, kindness, enjoyment in simple pleasures, greatfulness, faith, hope, trust, peacefulness, and her assurance in her Savior on to Joanne. What a wonderful heritage. Your mom will be missed very much by so many many people. I pray God's grace to you my friend over your tremendous loss.

 

cuties.......

I'm happy to hear some of you want some more of the Miranda Experience. Sorry I haven't posted in a while. It wasn't that there wasn't much going on there is that's why no posts just a lot of busyness. My shopping is going well. Every year I try to get done early so I can take the time to enjoy the season. This year I'm feeling pretty good cause I'm pretty much done. As far as updates go on here I really can't remember much of what I've done to post about it since my last post. Something to do with getting older, to much on my mind, and menopause or as some say "going through the change". Ha! those words make me laugh. One thing I do remember is the other night we had the blessing of watching some really sweet kiddo's. Here's a picture of them. Do you recognize them?