Highlights from 2009

January
Adam turned 14

Jessica went from this..

..to this

February




Jessica and I went on the Girls' Getaway Cruise

Jasmine turned 8

Ty got his first job at the theater where Jessica works

Ty got his orange belt

March
The first weekend of March is always the Florida Christian Writer's Conference.


This year conference was in Lake Wales for the first time.


Eva and I had our name tags on so we could remember who we are.


Jasmine and I did an Easter egg hunt with the twins on a trip to Haiti.


The twins.


Destin


Destin



Destin--Jessica was brave





April


Wild Adventures water park

Jasmine with a kinkajou

Easter

T & J had to work on Easter so the rest of us went to the beach.

We had a flashlight Easter egg hunt

Dance

Soccer

I presented my Bible program to a group of 3rd-5th graders

Tyler's Explorer's awards banquet.

Tyler gets a promotion

Jessica and I went to the ECW conference in Pensacola.

ECW conference in Pensacola with Anne Kingsbury-Karen's mom.

With Karen

May




We took Jeff to Wild Adventures





and celebrated his birthday a week late.



My sister and her husband came down and we went to the zoo.








Got Jasmine ready for her dance recital--which was the same night as Tyler's high school graduation.



Tyler graduated.



Tyler's open house






Rick's parents went to the beach with us on Memorial Day



My sister and her husband went to the beach with us on Memorial Day




Jasmine had a soccer party at the end of spring soccer


They had a picnic for the soccer players and it was beautiful weather.



Jasmine off to church camp



June






Wild Adventure



This was my favorite ride by far!



Jessica went to music camp.


Adam went to mission camp.


Stone Mountain


Stone Mountain


World of Coke


















July






I took Jeff, Tyler, Jessica and Jasmine to Universal Studios/Island of Adventure


Seuss Landing was my favorite.













Finished Adam's room







Jessica redid the bathroom.


Tyler turned 19.



















August




Jessica's senior portraits


Jessica turned 18


Adam attended cranio facial camp with Jasmine
Beach fun

At the bay. This is one of the days we read Purpose Driven at the bay.


First day of Jessica's senior year


New friends for the kids


















September



Horse back riding (at the skating rink)

We got rescued at the springs.






October


Wild Adventures






Springs












November

Family pictures using the timer on the camera.





Disney with Rick


End of soccer





















Teamwork









December

Frosting Christmas cookies with the twins in Haiti.












New friends over


Everyone getting along on Christmas Eve.

New Year's Eve

We atarted out with Rick, Tyler and I playing Star Trek Scene It. I am really bad at it because I only know Voyager and I don't know the episode titles and can't remember what all the aliens are called.



Then Rick and Tyler played another game while the rest of us played ping pong.












This is my scary face : ) Isn't my desk a mess in the background? I have several projects going.










Jessica, Adam, Jasmine and I played Rummikub.












Rick and Ty still playing Star Trek Scene It.

Then we were all going to play Disney Scene It together but the game broke up because when too many people are all doing the same activity the personalities start clashing. I was the first to drop out because someone wasn't playing fair and it set me off.


The game broke up when two others dropped out and we went out and set off a few fireworks.



Adam, Tyler and Jasmine played Wii while Rick, Jessica and I watched three episodes from season one of Diagnosis Murder that I got from Netflix.





Everyone was in bed by 1:00 a.m. I got woke up at 5:50 and the others straggled out between 7 & 10.