Nature Walk

We took a pitstop on the way home today and took a nature walk at the Bolsa Chica wetlands.

I like to plan ahead but today I thought hey let's go for a nature walk!
My Aunt Debbie used to take us kids on nature walks when we were kids and it's still one of my favorite memories. We would try to find many things that God made on our walks .
My aunt is a state away but I am carrying on her tradition and we had a lot of fun! Especially Jo who took his clothes off and started running through the wild, hehe.
We saw various plants, birds, bugs, squirrels, a rabbit and even *gasp* a rattlesnake! He's hiding in a bush in one of the pix (bottom right corner)
Here are most of my other pix from our walk.

My 3 Sons

Big brothers Jake and Caleb love listening to baby brother no name and feeling him move. By listening I mean hearing my belly growl. Caleb told me today that he heard the baby "fart". What can I say? Boys will be boys!

They keep asking me what the baby's name will be and offer their suggestions. Jake likes, buzz, woody, Jesse, Michael Scott and smelly cat, not necessarily in that order. Caleb doesn't have a name choice as he insists that it's a girl! Most days he is excited to have another brother, other days he insists it's a girl. wouldn't it be funny if he were right? We shall have to wait and see. Baby no name has about 13 weeks to arrive (Dec 5) . Lord willing, of course.

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Wedding Workshop with Barnet Photography

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This is a photo taken by Joe Barnet of Barnet Photography. I went to a wedding workshop a few months ago and I got to model for one of the shots showing how to get a blue sky. If you ever want to take a photography workshop you should definitely see WWW.barnetworkshops.com I had the best time, learned a lot and have a ton of notes to prove it! They definitely inspired me in my photography career.

Win an Ergo Performance Baby Carrier from Heavenly Holds!

what a great contest and I hope I can win for baby #5 that is due on December 5! check out the contest and feel free to enter (and gift to me if you win?) Hehe. http://www.heavenlyhold.com/pages/contest.htm

Vote for Brethren!

Please take some time to vote for Brethren Christian Jr & Sr High in Huntington Beach, CA
We are currently in the process of enrolling the girls (Lord Willing) and they are a small private school who would love to build a gym!

Life

Well Jason is back home. He made it home safely Friday at 10pm and we got to spend the weekend together. Tonight he is coming home early to help out at the church hopefully for our women's ministry kickoff (helping with childcare). He might be close to home hopefully for the next week or so, which means he is only gone a few nights of the week.

As I mentioned, tonight is our kickoff meeting for our new women's ministry. I'll tell you the name later, we're keeping it a secret, revealing it tonight. I am helping in the communications arena of it, blog, facebook, pictures, etc. I'm also helping design flyers, graphics etc. It's been crazy but rewarding! I am so glad that God saw fit to bring us to Life Church. Whenever I think about our church and our women's ministry, and youth ministry - I get so excited, I can't explain it besides that feeling you get when you are "in love". Aww. Praying for His blessings daily (and receiving them gladly)

My Hubby

Just in case there are some family and friends out there who still don't know what Jason's new job is or where he is, I'm going to try to keep this site updated. In as much of a "Tiff Nutshell" as I can do here goes:

Jason and I decided to revamp our working situation. With the economy being what it has been our business just wasn't paying the bills. In fact it was costing money to keep it going. Money we didn't have. We were blessed by a friend from church having a job opening for Jason and J's business partner Ben at a company called Total Safety. Basically they are trained in "Confined Space Rescue", among other things. They take readings at the sites where the maintenance people there do work, making sure it is a safe environment and are ready to go in if they need to rescue anyone. Jason is certified to teach CPR so he has also been doing some classes for Total Safety in that, and he has been teaching other classes too (I forget which ones - it was fun helping him make his Powerpoint though) :) They have been at an oil refinery and a chemical plant (both in Long Beach area), and now an oil refinery in Texas. Jason is leaving after his shift tonight to Oklahoma to train a new team and then he will be with that team in Oklahoma for a month on that job. Other family has now joined the team and they are with them in Texas. Dustin Remy (my sis-in-law's bro) and James Santa (J's cousin). Sorry I don't have more details but the few minutes that I get to spend talking with my hubby get eaten up quick. All the info here I have been gathering since Thanksgiving LOL. I can hardly keep up with it, it seems like it changes almost daily but I will keep you posted as much as I can, for whoever cares anyway. :) Love you all and thanks for all your prayers and support. We are so blessed.

FB

Facebook people! It's all I've been doing lately. I am so behind in Picasa'ing my pics and keeping up my blog! I have plenty to add. More later...

Mother's Day 2008

Some photos of our Santa Family Trip to San Vicente Lake.

Jake's 3rd Bday May '08

Long time coming...

Wow I haven't been here in a while...soon to come I will put up some slideshows from past events and hopefully catch up with some posts. Currently I am praying for a new job. Keep me in your prayers. :)

On the Boardwalk...

Yesterday we got to spend some time with visiting family down in San Diego. We drove down and met them at the hotel and went swimming and then walked around the beach and then Marie Callenders for some awesome pie :). It was so much fun, man I haven't seen them in so long. It is always nice to catch up with family and you know me, always fun to take lots of pics! I'm putting up a photobucket slideshow and a small picasaweb slideshow, you can click on the small one and it will take you to my picasaweb where you can download them full size for free.

Scrapbooking Wahoo!

Life Church Scrapbooking FUN!

We had our first scrapbooking girls night last Sunday night it was so fun. I pretty much just organized/color-coded my paper (I have a bunch I got a great deal from costco a while back) and hung out with the gals and we had such a blast. I can't wait until the next one! It was my friend's first time scrapping and she did so good, it is so intimidating when I think about scrapbooking but she whipped out 3 pages! Go Veronica :)

My Blog

Well I have promising to start a blog for a long time now so enough procrastinating, here goes...:)

What's going on around here is craziness as usual. For those who don't know we have all been sick with one thing or another since February 12th when DD Michelle brought home the stomach flu, then we had the respiratory flu make it's rounds too. When Caleb got the stomach flu he lost 1/2 pound and his appetite along with it. I have been asking for and receiving advice from many people and after a lot of hard work and prayer he is finally gaining weight and will continue to do so (Lord Willing). I am thinking that he may have lost his appetite for a while, who knows?

Right now I am taking fenugreek seed for increasing my milk in the form liquid drops (or I should say liquid nastiness - it was cheaper than the pills, but now I see why, blech!) Also I'm drinking tea that has fenugreek seed and it's ok tasting. His nursing has definitely increased (he won't drink formula I've tried them all in all different bottles, even bought the bottle that goes around my neck that has tubes that tape to breast so he gets formula when nursing, but he comes off and makes faces).

Also he is finally eating 2-3 medium sized jars of baby food a day and I put about 3 scoops of formula in there and some oatmeal baby cereal (210+/- calories each sitting in addition to breastfeeding).

I cannot tell you how happy I was when they told me he gained a pound. I should also mentioned that his weight gain was from Saturday to Wednesday, that is amazing and is a total answer to prayer. We go back in one month for a weight checkup, he is heading back up on the percentile chart for his weight, hopefully he will be back to 50% soon.

Slideshow January '08