Is she cute or what!!!!!!!!!!

These were taken during Britt's graduation Ceremony. There were lots of tears shed.
Britt is an amazing young woman and you can see God has His hand on her!!!!
We have come to love her very much and cannot see where God takes her in the next 10 years!!!
this is Britt's uncle doing the "commencement"

Minnesota trip con.....

I know you will all be reading this backwards but its too hard to figure out what can first last and so forth so I am just going to start here.

We thought that this picture was comical. The church used to be called "Joy Free" it is now new joy! Look at what the sign says!! LOL

Here is a picture of the church that the Livesays attend. It is very nice and cozy!

We were helping set up tables. These two pictures are kind of neat. I was setting up desserts on the centerpiece and the sun was shining right on it.

Minnesota

We saw some beautiful rock formations in Wisconsin! I didn't realize that it was such a pretty state.
We crossed the bridge below coming into Minnesota. I had also taken a picture of the sign as we passed it but of course my camera chose that moment to shut down.

We are having a great time so far. Diane and Tori went to visit Ikea and we took the kids and spent the day in the pool and at Cabela's which is right down the street. I did get pictures of that but I will have to upload them later.

We talked to Troy and Phoebe and Hope are sick. Pray that they are well for tomorrow. We are very excited. Troy and Tara are coming to get us around 8:30 in the morning and then we get to go help set up for Britt's graduation!! Cool!!!

We finally left at around 4:30pm yesterday. We had a very smooth drive and we made it to the Wisconsin Dells around 11:30pm!
We stopped at this Super 8 motel. It was very nice and VERY cheap!!

The kid's sleeping arrangments the first night!!

The kids actually did very well in the car on the long drive!
The crazy thing is that for some reason we realized that there was
was someone that kept following us everywhere we went! :) We couldn't
seem to shake them at all. You can see the car in this picture! The strange thing
is that they are right next door to us in the hotel room too???

We our 1st ever Trunk or treat last night at our church!!
It was such a fun night and I was happy that so many people cam out for this!!
this first picture is of Caleb and you can see Heather in the back ground. I regret to tell you all that somehow the rest of my children pretty much escaped being in pictures!! However enjoy some of the pictures I got from the night!!!

Heather and Katie are doing puppet team this year
they had so much fun!! Katie is the puppet in the yellow scarf
Heather helped with the haunted house in the background! The
message was "fear not"!! It was very cute!!

This is my friend Melissa from Church!!

More trunk or treating pictures!!

More trunk or treating pictures!!

17 years ago today!!!

I cannot hardly imagine that is been 17 years since Nathan and I
were married!! It is only by the grace of God that we are where we
are today and I am so blessed that God gave me such an awesome man
to be married too!!! Thank you honey for you who you are!!
I love you so much!!!!!!!!!
Brenda - age 19
Nathan - age 21

October 24th 2002

I missed posting this yesterday.

Hard to believe that 5 years ago on October 24 we were approved

by a very tough judge in Irkutsk, Russia to adopt our 4th child!

Ekaterina, We are so proud to have you in our family!!!!

My favorite all time song

Some of you know that I was adopted when I was a baby. God gave me the best parents in the whole wide world. Growing up and not knowing my heritage when I was younger was difficult at the time. Even though in reality it doesn't really matter much to me because I am a child of God and that is the only heritage that I care about. Growing up my favorite song has always been "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes. Imagine my surprise in learning that I was part scotch.

I just wanted to share my favorite song with you today!!

This was the best one I could find on you tube.

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!!!!

Caleb has finally lost his two front teeth!!!

More Phoebe pictures

Isn't she just the cutest thing!! My kids had so much fun
with her visiting! She loved to be outside and she helped us
rake up leaves!!

Phoebe

Phoebe is such a good baby!!! She actually slept until about 9:45 for me!! Which I believe would be 8:45 for her back home but still!!! She has not cried once and just gives such big smiles!!

Thanks Tara for sharing her with us!!!

Troy and Phoebe!!

Troy and Phoebe arrived safely!!! His flight was
Actually early!! We went to our favorite Chinese
Buffet and just got home a little while ago!!
Phoebe is just a doll!!! She just went down for the
night and has not made a peep at all!!!

Funny things kids say

Heather is quite something. She is my writer and loves to write stories. She gets this from her Grandma Yonker who writes very good stories and we believe should have some published.

These are just a few of the letter she has left on the counter for me to find in the last few days.

I love you mom so much that I could eat a rocket!

or

I love you mom so much that I could eat an elephent!!

Love,
Heather!

How cute are those!!!!!!!!!!

What kind of chocolate are you??

Laura inspired to me to do this!! This what is says I am! LOL

You are Dark Chocolate

You live your life with intensity, always going full force.You push yourself (and others) to the limit... you want more than you can handle.An extreme person, you challenge and inspire the world!

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OOPS!

I gave the wrong website for my survey spree.

It is actually survey spree and its www.surveyspree.com I just checked it my self!!

Not much else going on today over here! Quiet day with all the kids in school!!

I actualy get to stay home tonight! Yee haa!!!!