Some of us


Alex and Alyssa --A rare moment of peace for these two :)


Classy Mari-Ange




Katrina's work of art


Ivan, Ethan (Ivan's son), Lani (Ivan's sister)


With pretty Lani -this girl has an AMAZING voice!


Cutie boy, Jaden (of James and Letizia)


James doing his thing


Us trying very, very hard to take a family photo
(I hope James got some good ones :)


Yummy wine :)




It was a fun night! Thank you Jesus for a wonderful home!

It's getting so cold! I actually don't mind the cold weather that much...but a little bit of warmth would be so welcome right about now! Thank you Jesus for good central heating and warm woolly hats--oh, and RAMEN!!! :D

just making up for the silence, heh!

Alex and Tisha practicing their Christmas songs. :-)

Here are my parents when they were pioneering Nigeria aaaages ago! And no, I'm not in that crowd of cute little black children so don't try to find me, hehe! This was before I was born (1976-77). I do believe my dear father is doing an Irish Jig. :-)



And here is my beautiful Mum! She's my angel!



Me and my one and only lovely sister. Dude! Check out my hair!! :-)

Yours Truly when I was one (um, I think this was after one of the MANY times my sis "trimmed" my 'fro :P)



My pretty older sister

I love you! You are one of the best missionaries I know! Thanks for always being such a good sample to me. I admire you so much! Thank you for rescuing mom when she was wandering around as a single with two little rascals for daughters, and for caring for us as if we were your own for all these years. I'm the luckiest daughter in the world! You're way cool! May the Lord give you a wonderful new year and bless you for your many sacrifices...and may we see you again (SOON!!)!
Te quiero, Popi! Besos!

(This is the only pic I have with my dad --I was 18--He has less hair now...I think I do too, hehe! :P)



PS: My dad is also one the best soccer players in the world (I can say that, he's my daddy!). He's awesome! --Used to play professionally before joining the Family!

(Here he is with one of his grandsons-both soccer freaks!! :)

If you've been having a problem viewing videos from You Tube ... starting to load, plays about three seconds, without sound, then freezes...something that worked was uninstalling Flash Player, Rebooting and then download and install Flash Player 10 (seems to be a problem with Firefox 3 and Flash Player)
Seemed to work for me!--At least for now, we'll see! :-)

I found this song on someone's blog today and it just fit perfectly with what I've been going through lately. It's a beautiful song...tx for the prayers! :-)

I had a fun "girls night out" last weekend...danced my heart out (and got serious blisters, hehe!). It was fun and I sure needed it. Thanks women, it was great. If you know me you'll know why I enjoyed the dancing so much! :D
Here is a pic of us that I stole from the beautiful Mia (Julz, moi, Mia, Liza...and we're missing Michelle who took the pic). This was taken after all the fun...so...yeah we're a bit tuckered and it was coooooold, heh!

We didn't make a jelly bean cake. Instead it was a carrot cake and the kids helped to make it. Here are a few pics of the cake making/eating :-)

Katrina hath updated her blog. :-)

I officially have no more babies...waaaaah! :-) Happy Birthday, Pumpkin! You have brought so much joy to our lives. I can't imagine my life without you! I love you too much!
She says she wants a jelly bean cake...we'll see how that goes! :P

Daddy is gone for a week. We miss him terribly!
We LOVE you!

The little guys here got to go the Legoland with their dads on Friday.
There were lots of fun rides (no pix of those) and Alex's favorite was the roller coaster! :D He had a blast! He also loved the fireworks at the end of the day (a not so good pic at the bottom. :D)