Eagles...........

 
 
 
No I'm not talking about my Philadelphia Eagles I'm talking about real Eagles. Last week my sister Diane and some of the kids went down to Zeldenright's Church (sp.) and checked out the huge Eagle nest that the pair of Eagles has built. Momma Eagle I believe has layed her eggs. Some people who were parked beside us said that the one Eagle was sitting in the nest and would at times poke her head up so you could see her. We didn't see that. We have to go with better binoculars next time. For anyone looking for a nice little adventure for your family head on out to the nest. It's a nice drive.

We got a puppy!

Yes, we have an addition to our family. Her name is Gracie. She is part Corgi and part not sure. Edwin and I picked her up yesterday and brought her home to the unknowing kids. We kept it a surprise for them. Bella is already in love with her and Rico is tolerating her which is a step in the right direction for him. Bri is away overnight so she will be surprised when she comes home and Noah hasn't seen her yet he came home late and is still sleeping. Gracie did well last night sleeping in her crate and she's been sleeping in it today with the gate open for her to go in and out when she chooses. She's really cute and hopefully the 3rd will be the charm. We had two other dogs over the years and they didn't work out the best for us.

pictures.

rescued........

It wasn't easy but as you can see we rescued mom! My sisters and I plus Ian had a great time in Sarasota Fl. It was so good being with mom. We went to Jungle Gardens as you can see from the picture. We saw a lion show, did some sight seeing, watched a sunset, looked for shells on the beach, ate icecream at Big Olaf's, went to a Whole Foods grocery store, did some clothes shopping,played "Aggressive Skip-Bo", and ate out. The plane ride there and back were both good. TranAir came through for us good flights cheap. We spent time with our friend Lizzie too. She's down the whole month like mom is and is coming home with her. It's good to be home again but it was hard leaving mom there. And it was hard for mom to see us go. Tears were flowing as we said our goodbyes. But I'm so thankful we had this opportunity and I'm so thankful for my wonderful husband who so kindly let me go without a single complaint. I have to give props to Janie's husband and Diane's husband as well they all made it easy for us to go. So we had our week in the sun and now it's back to freezing temps. Well it won't last long and we will soon be hearing the birdies sing and see our slice of earth turn green again. I still love the different seasons.

 

Florida here I come.........

 
 
My sisters and I and Ian are heading to Florida to rescue mom. As you can see she needs us. No, actually the pic of mom was from two years ago when my sisters and I went for a surprise visit to my parents while they were vacationing in Flordia. So now once again Janie, Diane and Ian are going to visit once again but sadly it's only mom we will be with this time. Daddy was so good at showing us around and finding things for us to do. We will be missing his presence with us for sure. We are leaving Tues. for a week. This is the house we stay in. It's a very nice place and Mom and Dad have stayed there for many years. I'm glad my mom has decided to keep going a little R & R is good for her she works hard. Bye for now.

NASCAR

Tonight was our annual NASCAR dinner. We have a group consisting of the Mellingers, Kinderwaters, Dale and Carol Landis, Colly and Daryl Landis,the Bueche's the Smith's and Edwin and I who for the last 9 or 10 years have had a competition between couples to see who can pick the NASCAR drivers that will accumulate the most points.
The winner gets a nice dinner out paid with the rest of the gang. Jerry and Dawn once again were the winners. I think it's the third time for them. My mom graciously allowed us to use one of her 15 passenger vans so we could all go together to the Appalacian Brewing Co. near Harrisburg. We all said how good it was so we recommend it. It was fun to be together again and I think we all had a great time.

sephora.........

Okay all you makeup junkies out there myself included. Sephora is coming to town. Yes ladies all you could want and need cosmetics and skin care store is coming to Park City in April. Lancaster City has arrived ya all. It used to be you would have to go to King of Prussia to go to a store like Sephora. I'm pretty excited about it. It's a fun store to browse around in and try anything and everything on.
So keep your eyes peeled for the grand opening. I know I'll be checking it out.

stuff...........

My tooth is healing nicely although my stitches came out after two days. I don't think that was supposed to happen. But my tooth never really hurt or was very sore after being pulled. Thank you Lord! Although I do have this flapper type thing where my tooth was hopefully this will close up.
Last night Edwin and I, Rico and the girls went to see the L.S. Lady Pioneers J.V and Varisty play against Manheim Central. Wow what a game! We won and are solely in first place. Brianna had a game earlier in the day but there team didn't do so well against Manheim Central they lost. Bella has a game today that we are going to. I really enjoy watching b-ball that's a good thing since we go to a lot of games. I also enjoyed that little bit of snow we got. The girls built a snowman that night it snowed. They took a lot of time decorating it but alas till morning poor snowman's head had fallen off and was on the ground. Here's to more snow!

Mark Walker

Some of you may know of the Walkers. Very close friends of the Haughery's. Yesterday Mark the husband of Marie passed away after a lengthy illness. Please pray for the family and all who loved him so much through this tremendous loss.

crackalackin....

Today I had my first tooth pulled as an adult. A couple days ago the left side of my jaw started hurting. So a trip to the dentist ensued. He said well it's cracked going to have to send you to another doctor to see if they can save the tooth through a root canal. I'm thinking man not a root canal they cost at least 800 dollars. Amazingly I did not get charged for my dentist visit. Next I went to see Dr. Samii a nice quiet doctor. He said yup it's cracked vertically and there is nothing he can do for me. No charge there either except for the xray. My dentist doesn't pull teeth so I was sent to a third doctor the oral doctor to have my tooth pulled. Thankfully they got me an appt. for today so I wouldn't have to go through the weekend with a hurting tooth and jaw. I must say I was pretty tense after they stabbed me in the roof of the mouth with the needle. I sat in the chair trying to calm myself. Big breaths in out in out any minute he's going to come back in the room and yank this tooth out. Okay Jesus please help me and please make sure it's completely numb before they do the deed. I here the door open ahhh he's coming. Here we go. First he cracked up the tooth a little and then he said sorry I'm going to have drill a little. Okay it's not going to bad I don't feel anything but the whole time I'm thinking any moment a searing pain is going to occur. Praise God there was no pain but there was a lot of tugging on my tooth to the point where you think please give tooth and then it did. I'm telling you the roots felt like they were a foot long. I should have asked to see it but I didn't. And the best part of the story is there really was no pain during or after. They offered me Vicadin but I said no. My first doctor had already given me Tylenol with Codene and it was working fine. What a relief it is to have the tooth out and it's amazing how good I feel and the tooth is way in the back where you can't see it anyway. Actually my experience is that pulling a tooth is easier then getting a filling. Grand total 330 dollars.

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.

Christmas 07 Lapp

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.

Christmas 07 Malpica

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?

 

solo..........

Sunday night Nov. 4th, was one of those nights that was just kind of magical. Noah had his first Choral concert since being in college.
The concert was held at the St. James Episcopalian Church. Beautiful church. My older sister was debating on whether or not to come to the concert she had been away for the weekend and was tired so she asked if Noah was soloing at all. I said no so that kind of made up her mind not to come. No problem so just Edwin and I and the kids head to the church.
If you've ever been to that church you know that you sit in these box type seats about 6 people can fit in a box. It's pretty cool. Anyway the concert was very good the singing was excellent. The ladies group sang the mens group sang the whole chorus sang. During the time when the whole choir was singing it was time for a song that had a solo in it for a baritone. The guy who was supposed to sing the part could not sing it that night do to a voice problem at the last minute. The choir director is saying all this to us all. Then he says so he's going to ask someone else to sing it on a whim. He wasn't sure who he was going to ask and he said that's what makes it exciting. So he's just kind of looking around at his students and then he says Noah would you like to sing the solo. And Noah boldly says "yes". Edwin and I looked at each and smiled in surprise. We didn't have time to get nervous for Noah. Noah sang the solo beautifully. It was the best I have heard him sing yet. I did record it with my camera. But it doesn't do it justice you would have had to have been there. After Noah was done singing the audience was very enthusiastic in there applause and the choir director said some very kind things about Noah. It was just a really beautiful moment. A wonderful blessing for Noah and for us.

Check the video out here.

2007-11-04 Noah's solo