Tuesday, June 2, 2009

What are we up to......

Here is Tiffany our master picture taker. I finally got a few nice pictures of her. Here she is with our dog Luke. He was a gift to us from the our friends the Lotka's when we came home from Africa. We have been enjoying the warmer weather over here. It's nice not to have the kids bouncing off the walls not being able to go outside.


We always have to have a large collection of animals around no matter where we are. Today as we were talking to Jakin we got to talk to Dr.Phil our families' pet monkey in Liberia. I hear he is doing good unless he gets loose and causes lots of trouble with our neighbors, behind us but they shouldn't complain as they have a chimpanzee that will sometimes get loose and get onto the roof of their house and throw rocks into our yard!
Anyhoo....above is Daniel with our cat Snuggy, a gift from the Forsman's when we came home.

Here is Nathan our miracle child with Mr. Peepers, a gift from the Housman family. Nathan is a miracle to us after surviving cerebral malaria last August.


Emily and Daniel are both 7 until June 23rd when Emily will turn 8. They are very close. It's very clear Daniel is the boss but he is very gentle with Emily. It is so cute...he just loves her.



Here is Daniel and Luke.


Emily and Luke.

It's been a long winter of waiting.......waiting......waiting.......waiting for Jakin to come home, waiting for our baby to be born, waiting for God to direct us, waiting and more waiting. It's been good, I've learned alot and I can feel our waiting is almost over in a spiritul sense but I can't point to anything physical to prove that.

I made this Tiramisu Blanket for the baby. I am convinced it's a girl and it better be because everything I made has been for a girl that's how sure I am. I got the free pattern off ravelry.com . It was fun and quick to do. I actually made two of them the other one is darker brown with a cream ribbon.


This is one that Tiffany made for her hope chest and also for the county fair.


Here is one I did, I got the free pattern off of Lion Brands website. It is called Pure Appeal.


And....we are milking goats again Praise the Lord! What a blessing that is! Here is our newest goat Chiqua she was a gift from the Firezar family and we are so grateful for her! She gives enough milk that all of the kids are able to have milk every day! They love it!


Here is Mini, isn't she beautiful?!!? I am so impressed with her. Look at her great markings! She is a purebred Nubian, we are looking forward to increasing our milk production next spring. We also got her from the Firezar family.


Here is Gilgamish....he is the cutest thing. We let him run in the yard with kids he is a Nubian breeding buck. He's cute now til he gets all big and stinky.....