Silly Girl!

It is so hard to get a decent picture these days. When Cheyenne sees the orange light on the camera she yells "Cheese!" and makes horrible faces. See for yourself.

And you think you have bad hair days?!

This was Catherine this morning...Miss Wild thing! She had taken her pajamas off during the night...so she could sleep like Christopher!

Way to go Tigers!!

Congratulations to Christopher and the "Tigers" for a first place, undefeated season!! He is in the under 9 league, which is the first year they officially keep score and the first year they have to place 1st, 2nd or 3rd to receive a trophy. It was a very exciting season! Christopher scored 13 goals in 7 games. He usually splits the games playing offense and then goal keeper. Of course I get so nervous when he is the goal keeper...that is a tough position to play! Here he is showing off his trophy at the party last night. Who knows why he chose to hold it this way?! I guess because he could?!
Catherine posing with her friend Lindsey. Her twin brother plays on the team. With the exception of last season he and Christopher played together for 2 years prior. Catherine just loves Lindsey! Here is a picture at the last game, he was getting ready to play goal keeper.
I'm going to miss soccer games every Saturday...but Basketball will start up soon. Not my favorite sport to watch but any game is fun when your child plays in it. I have definitely found my competitive nature (never thought I really had one!!) I try not to get nervous or yell (good things, not bad!) but I just can't help myself.

Watermelon patch '06

Well, we have several watermelons in our impromptu patch so on Sunday we thought we would see how good they were...
They were so proud of their melons...They look pretty on the outside!How disappointing! When Christopher cut open the first one it was completely white inside and smelled like a cucumber.
The second one was just a little pink. They both tasted it, Christopher said it was good...but, it really wasn't! We will leave the rest of them alone and see what happens over the next month. Christopher had his hopes set on starting a watermelon business...maybe next year! We'll deifinitely have room for a garden at the new house!
The dry, hot weather over the summer must have been the reason for our crop failure!

Fall Fun!

Saturday our church had a family fun day at the farm. The weather was nice and cool especially after the sun set. Usually it is still hot, so it was a treat to actually have fall weather for our big fall event! Here is Catherine dressed as a "cowboy-girl"! Her cowboy hat didn't fit anymore so we had to improvise with a plain ole straw hat!
Here we are carving our pumpkins...as you can see cleaning it out is not Christopher's favorite thing to do!
I'm not sure Catherine actually did any work on her pumpkin but at least we got a picture of her hand inside, pretending to clean it out!
Our finished products! We usually carve pumpkins and make caramel apples the same evening but, we kind of ran out of time and now we have no apples as they were eaten and the caramels are still in the pantry!! I'll have to buy more apples and make them sometime...before Christmas, I hope.Catherine just loved "burning her pumpkin" She wanted it lit everynight. We did for a few nights until we ran out of candles.
Our house buying is still moving along, we don't know when closing will be yet, most likely the beginning of December. On another note check out www.ashleysstory.org baby Ashley had a multiple organ transplant and has not been doing so well over the last few days. Please pray for this precious baby and family!

Where did my little baby go?

That is Cody with number 4
Today was our homecoming game. We lost 21 to 9 but it was a good game. These pictures are in backwards order but I am to tired to redo them. After the game there was a homecoming banquet. Cody and three other students got to go. Elizabeth didn't go but here is a picture of her and Sami. Notice her new hair color....I love it.
This is Cody, Justin, Ashley and Sami. Ashley and Sami are cheerleaders

Don't these two look scarey? I don't know why they can't smile.
Watch out for number 10

photo session with Cat.

Catherine will be having her pictures taken on Fri and I was trying to decide if I liked the clothes I bought her, so I took some pix of her outside...she was such the little model, trying different poses! (you can see the tags on her new clothes! I didn't want to take them off till I was sure I liked them on her!)

ok, the dead plant behind her doesn't make such a nice background!

I am not sure that my camera is really fixed, the pix still are not very crisp. I've taken it in 3 times, so the next time I take it in, they are supposed to replace it.

Have a good day!

Prayers

Hi everyone,
Please keep Rob and Becky and the Brower family in your prayers. Bob passed away tonight at around 6:15.
Roni

Happy Birthday Calixto

Yet another Fall Birthday...
ok I posted this this morning...where oh where did it go?? Anyway...
"Happy Birthday Honey...one more year until the big One!"
Yesterday was his birthday but we were not home all day to post a birthday message. He had all day alumni meetings/gatherings at LeTourneau and the kids and I had Christopher's soccer tournament. His parents came in and we had a nice dinner with them last night.
Happy Birthday to a wonderful husband and father...We love you!

Happy Birthday to Calixto!!

For some reason I can't post a picture this morning! Yesterday was Calixto's birthday! We weren't home much at all so I was unable to post then. Calixto spent all day at alumni meetings at LeTourneau and the kids and I were at Christopher's soccer tournament. We did have a nice dinner with his parents last night. And now we are off to visit a different church in town, so we feel like we aren't at "work". Have a great time of worship today!

Happy Birthday to Calixto!!

miscellaneous pictures

Christopher's birthday party at Kid's Station. It is a pretty cool place run by a local Methodist church. It's kind of like Chuck E Cheese only bigger and better. They have individual rooms for your parties and they take care of everything from invitations to the cake. That was helpful since we got back into town on Fri evening and he had both a soccer game and his party the next day.
Some kind of animal skin on his head?! Don't know why someone brought that to the party?! But since it was there...you might as well put it on your head!
My sweet friend Toni, we used to be neighbors until they moved back to South Dakota. God has blessed me with a wonderful godly friendship that continues in spite of the distance. (Her husband is an associate pastor in an EV Free church.)
Oops, forgot to rotate the picture of the chocolate faced girl!
These are a bit out of order...It was nice to rent a car and visit the country side in Minnesota and not just stay in the city. Our other pictures of the trip are on a throw away camera, for some reason I can not get the pictures off the cd to post them...I think I erased them or something...I'll keep trying.
Visit our personal blog at thearces.blogspot.com or the site is linked from this page too.

A Belated Happy Birthday to Roni!

Wow, lots of fall birthdays...Hope you had a good day...I pray that you would see God's blessings everyday of this new year! May you feel His presence as he leads you through this journey of life. Praying for His guidance and provision for you over this year!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Christopher! Hope you had a great day.
Love Aunt Roni and kids

IT Finally came and it speaks for itself

Sorry it is not so clear. It is black and very shiney but it is beautiful and Bruce would have approved

Happy Birthday Brenda!!

Happy Birthday! How old are you now? Just so I know how young to make myself on my birthday!

Hope you had a great Day!

We love you
Roni and kids

I Love the baby

Miss Cheyenne just loves our baby birdy. She even loves for him to sit on her now.







It is all I can do to keep her out of the cage!
Do notice the Dora Jammies again!

Can you say BAD hair day????

This was a very bad hair day. She has these often











This one was just cute and do notice she has the same jammies on. She loves her princess dora jammies!

First Day of School

Don't we look so happy and excited! We really love school!

















Really we do!

Catherine's Birthday Party

Catherine's party was so much fun. We had about 23 kids and a dozen or so parents. We borrowed a big inflatable water slide from a friend. Everyone had a blast and the weather was wonderful. In fact the kids were a little chilly standing in line once they were wet. Here are a few pictures of the fun day...
The Princess dress Mom-mom made for her...it is beautiful! She will wear this Saturday at a friends Princess party.
I made the pudding & cool whip frosting...everyone loved it except Catherine, she wouldn't even eat one of them! She liked the regular frosting I made last week though (it was much sweeter!)
The kids were so excited to give their presents to her...it was fun to watch, I had to step away as I was getting trampled!
Any picture I take of Christopher now and this is what I get...pure silliness!
Abuelita even came to the party with Tia Lupe and Uncle Julian. You can see some of our finished landscaping in the background of the pictures, it looks great!

Look at the booboo face!

Cheyenne seems to be following in her daddy's foot steps. We were getting ready to go to Bruce's grave and she decided to kiss the concrete in the church parking lot. She was fine after I cleaned her up. She just looks so pretty.
Roni

One Year today

It is hard to believe it has been a whole year.

Where has the time gone? Honor God today in Bruce's memory. One day done is a one day closer to meeting again.

Roni