- Ray continued to travel
- Tamra suddenly had 5 kids
- Tamra has to get 5 kids up everyday, and get some of them to school on time
- Tamra picks up/drives a friends daughter to school 80% of the time
- Ray Traveled
- Ray continued to have early meeting on Sundays
- Tamra has to get all 5 kids ready for church each week... by herself (Supermom nominations have been submitted)
- We sign documents for Alexis and Lamaya
- Paperwork comes back faster than ever before
- We get excited, but once again, the agency delays
- Antwan has court date, and PRT occurs
- October comes and Ray continues to travel
- Tamra's parents come for a visit at the end of a whirlwind tour of the US visiting each of their kids.
- We celebrate Ron's birthday
- Trunk or Treat and the Ward Party
- We take Ron and Lynette to the airport
- We celebrate Lamaya's birthday (4)
- Ray's travel slows down
- We start to get ready for Thanksgiving
- Ray adds circuit to electrical panel and wires new outlets for computer to be moved
- Ray gets the Christmas lights on the roof before it freezes
- We fly the team to Utah to spend Thanksgiving with the McDee clan!
- We spend 8 days in Eric's home, with 35 others!!! (most of them under the age of 10)
- Visit Temple Square lights
- Hook up with the Lucky Clan for a few. (Too short, but worth it)
- Thanksgiving comes and goes with lots of Mexican Train, and eating, and playing games.
- Ron and Lynette head to the MTC to prepare for their mission
- We head home to KS
- Embarq comes out to relocate DSL line
- We start to unpack Christmas
- Get back into school and work for a few - no travel :)
- We head to an adoption conference that goes terribly wrong...so we leave
- Take the day off to see a movie and hang with the kids
- Second week home brings more fun and we dig out more Christmas
- Ray takes down Ethan's beds, and moves them into his room w/Kyler (girls were borrwing them for a little while)
- Ray puts together the girls' new beds and rearranges the furniture
- Kyler has first B-Ball practice
- Misses first game due to stomach flu
- We celebrate Alexis' birthday (3)
- Tamra gets stomach flu
- Ray travels...j/k I took off to care for her and the team
- Ray is now feeling sick
- Have home inspection for renewal tomorrow, since we couldn't finalize before end of 2009
Notice I haven't mentioned Christmas shopping. That is not in error. We have completed exactly ZERO shopping this year. We are normally 80% done by Aug., and all done by Oct. This is becoming a stressor.
So, we have pics of the journey of the last 3 months, and we might actually post them someday :) Keep the pressure on us. We have been very busy with our full house, so the blog keeps getting overlooked.
(Since this is a public place, I'll post the pics of the girls and Antwan to FB. I have listed most of you as able to see them there, so if you're not listed, let me know.)
Love ya'll
7 comments:
Can you add me as a friend on FB? I don't really "do facebook", but would love to see pictures of the rest of your "team". :) Love being able to stay updated! And we miss your parents in the ward already. :) Love ya guys!
I miss all of you. I hope you are all well now. Love you. MOM
I wouldn't be able to remember those three months to document them so that's impressive. Hence the reason I blog so often. I make it count as journaling:) As a mom with five kids getting them ready all week and alone on Sundays, I salute you as well. We need a special spot to sit in Sacrament mtg. (one where we can go undetected when the children erupt!) --Kaci
Great recap! It was SOOOOOOOOOO good to see you Tamra and most of the team in October!!!! You amaze me!!!!!! If you are cool with it, I would love to be your facebook friend. :)
Hey! I cannot for the LIFE of me find you guys on fb!! Hook me up! Friend me! "Dana Kiser Butler"
wow, you guys are awesome!
this is Meredith, not Ryan :)
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