Jackson/Hazen wedding

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Claire's 1st Birthday 11/2011 & Amelia's 4th 4/2012

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Claire's dedication

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Corbin and Mazy are 3!!

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Welcome to the family

Today at 10:05 eastern time, our niece Juliet Susan was born weighing in at 8 pounds 5 ounces, length unknown.

I got to thinking...

I really haven't been including all of my "family" on this blog. Sure I have the animals, Ben and I, our families. But I am forgetting about some other very important poeple in MY life. The kids I sponsor through Compassion International (http://www.compassion.com/) I orginally started sponsoring with Compassion back in July 2002 when my mom, a friend and I decided to sponsor a child together. So we choice Phil Andrew.  Phil Andrew lives in the Philippines with his parents.  When we started sponsering him he was only 6 years old.  As you can see in the picture he is doing really good.

Then in December of 2002 I felt led to sponser another kid.  So Mugisha, age 10, from Rwanda, was chosen.  Unfortunetly in May of 2006 he moved away from the Compassion area.

In January of 2003 I still felt a tug to sponser more kids. I chose another 4.  Daniel, age 6, from Tanzania, Sibomana, age 8, from Rwanda, William (Wilbert), age 6, from Tanzania, and Suleman, age 8, from Tanzania.   In October of 2010, I was informed that Suleman was no longer enrolled in the Compassion program.

Daniel

Sibomana

William

Then in December of 2010 I felt led to sponser on older child.  So Emmanuel, age 20, from Uganda, was chosen.  Emmanuel will actually graduate from the Compassion program this December.

Emmanuel

We'll see what the future holds for my compassion kids.

Coming soon!

So Im a little behind, coming soon will be, Claire's 1st, Amelia's 4th, Corbin's 3rd, Mazy's 3rd, and some pictures of Iley, so stay tuned!

Zeke's first trip tp High Cliff State Park

I'll probably post this in the travel site as well, because it's a day trip. But I consider it family so I'm posting it here.

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Well

We never did get to look into that old farmhouse, so I guess it was God's way of saying it wasn't for us.  But I'm beginning to think, that Ben not wanting to move is a sign also.  I guess I should get more comfortable in the house we are in...but I am so ready to go when it is time.

Oh the adventures

So Ben and I are looking at houses, I don't know if we'll actually buy one but there are some potentials.  With the hope of expanding our family in the near future and I don't mean of the furry kind, I feel more so then Ben that it would be nice to have a bigger house then trying to raise the family in our current home.

One of the houses that we are looking at, we have yet to see the inside hoping to do that later this week, is an old farmhouse on like 9.5 acres.  It has a barn that possible might have to be razed, though I was thinking it would be cool to turn it into a guest house.  But we'll have to wait and see!!!

News flash

Not only do we welcome Iley to the family but Susan and Joe are expecting their 3rd in July.  We are so excited,  we now have more reasons to go visit MI!!!

Our New Neice

We have a new addition to the family.  We are excited to annouce the birth of Travis and Kristi's 2nd daughter Iley Jo.  She came into this world at 7 pounds 14 ounces and 21 inches in length.  Welcome to the family Iley!!!!