Joylynn is 27!

Harlan and I have tried our best to honor God in our lives. One of these ways was to raise our children to love and serve Him also. Each of our kids has a name plaque with the meaning of their name and a life verse from scripture.

The name book we used to find Joylynn's name had the meaning as "overflowing joy" the name plaque people interpreted it as "source of joy".

She has been the source of all kinds of emotions but beneath them all is that joy.
I've included a few photos on this post. Here is one of her, Jess and the kids.

At Christmas Time

With Danika

Pajama time. With Jess.

Close to Mother's Day

Joylynn and Genevieve leaving church, May 2009.

With Genevieve again.

The R-fam during party for Har and Logan.

Everyone needs a "mini me" Genevieve is Joylynn's. She looks so much like her mother did at that age.

Helping Danika go up unto the big slide at the play place for Danika's 2nd birthday.

I'd put a picture of Joylynn from Wyatt's first day of school yesterday but she was a bit weepy.

It's a mom's perogative to cry on the first day of school.

Twenty-seven years.... in many ways it seems that long but in most ways it's gone by all too fast.

We dedicated Joylynn to the Lord when she was entrusted to us and we are trusting that He will continue to work in her life.

Phillipians 1:6 ~

"being confident in this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."

Happy Birthday Joylynn!

May the year ahead be filled with God's grace and blessings.

Our Labor Day and week prior

Just a little update post.

I have always like the siamese type of cat. Our Peanut-Butter is a lovely siamese mix.

She is friendly and not too much of a pain.

Gotta love technology

They kids send me photos from their phones to mine. I don't have a super fancy phone so the photos always are too small to see.

Harlan taught me how I can forward the text/photo messages to my gmail account.

Now I can enjoy the photos that are sent and even share them here!

This one is for Lindsey. It is the only picture I got of Rowan this week. :)

SCHOOL DAYS.....

Just one pic this time. A science experiment in progress here. We didn't have pennies so he is dropping jellybeans into a cup and seeing how many the piece of spaghetti will hold before it breaks. I like this type of experiments better than the messy kind. :)


OSU adventure...

Har and I brought Ry down to the bus station to see him off for a trip down to Corvallis to take a little trip down memory lane and to attend the PSU/OSU football game.

If you have missed all of the construction and the fun that made for everybody :P ...

We now have an extension of the yellow Max line that now goes all the way south to PSU.

The new green line starts up this week. North and South in town and then all the way East and then South again to Clackamas town center.

It's fun to take a jaunt on the Max every now and again. Beats trying to find parking downtown.

Our weekly outing took us to Burgerville again.

I've been hanging out with guys alot lately.

It's a change from back in the day when I had 5 little girls in residence.

Sweet potato fries are back! Along with Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Starbucks.

I can almost feel the weather changing. :D

I'll finish this post with a picture of Cam.

I like his sparkly eyes.

A little bit of mischief here maybe?

Two years have flown by...

August 2007 Wyatt

August 2009 again Wyatt





August 2007 Genevieve August '09 Genevieve

And then there's the August birthday girl...

Danika 2007


And we will be celebrating her 2nd birthday this Saturday.

Here she is on the eve of her second birthday.


Still cute as a bug!






The pictures of Wyatt and Genevieve were taken today too.


I took a whole bunch of Danika though and couldn't decide which ones to post so you'll have to suffer through a few...


Uncle Hayden took this one of her. He had her take the plug out and she "cheesed" for the camera.

Sitting patiently near the impatience.

The only birthday "girl" in our family of boys born in August.

She can be silly sometimes. Has a ready smile whenever she sees us though.

She is mostly easy going, tries to repeat most words when asked and is doing well with potty training. Two years has gone by so fast.

We sure love our little Danika Dolly.

Happy 2nd Birthday!

A bit of a birthday-ish blog..






Tried to find the oldest August digital picture I had of Hayden. The one here is from 2005. He was 11. I think he has changed just a bit.

I think one of the "milestones" this year is that he drinks coffee drinks now. I don't know if that is a good thing or not :P

We finally got to take him out for his "Birthday Dinner"....
he chose:

We had never been to Typhoon before. Hayden always researches "best" restaurants in Portland and chooses one. I think he made a good choice this year. It was tasty.

The traditional picture outside of the restaurant. I think he's going to be taller than his Dad.



Here are a few more pictures of some of my favorite people.

The whole R-fam clan eating shared meal with Pastor Gary this past Sunday.

I love these kids~ dirty faces and all!

Classic Rowan. Bike in the background and soccerball on his shirt.

Danika and her curls. She's a dolly!

Genevieve wanted me to take a picture of her and "Po". She is such a loving little girl.

My first "best boy", Wyatt, is going to be in Kindergarten in a couple of weeks! He is so ready. Gramma not so much.

Our littlest best boy, Henry. Growing up on the East side of the state. Hopefully vehicle problems will be solved and we can get to see him in person often. He is so precious.


The youngest half of our kids were with me at Fred Meyer. I, of course, had my camera....

They were very tolerant. Or at least didn't give me too much trouble.
It's fun to still have these guys around the house.
They will be on their own before I'm "in a home" though. I hope.

A La Grandeoso Time

We are still in La Grande. Having a "grand" time.

Harlan and I have played a bit in between getting to know Henry.

Kiel and Cherise recommended a coffee shop in the downtown area.

Joe and Sugars

Yes it is.

Their food and sweets are really good too.

We have gone for a couple of walks around the neighborhood. Harlan did miles of walking while Cherise was in labor.

His new t-shirt says "She says I don't listen or something like that" :P

I went for a bit of pampering at:

Eclipz Salon

This isn't the best picture of my new "do" but it's a cute picture of the sweet stylist: Tiffany Garrison. She did a great job. I have a new sassy haircut!

Our main objective here is to enjoy watching Kiel and Cherise start out on their road to parenthood and to bond a bit with Henry since he lives so far away.

Grampa has the touch to relax those little ones.

Just like cousin Rowan needing to do chores by helping wash the vehicles...Henry went out on an errand yesterday.

He had to mail all of the baby announcements.

I have a feeling LaGrandians are going to see a lot of this scene in the months ahead.

The official first outing.

Grampa talking to his "little man".

This morning Har and I got to spend a couple of hours alone with Henry while his Mom and Dad slept a bit more than he allowed them to during the night.

He did join his mom for breakfast.

He got his first.

He is quite observant at this stage. Likes to be talked to.

I guess you could say we like him.