Herbert Eugene

Dan's dad passed away while in Armenia on Friday the 11th. We got notified by the Armenian consulate on the 16th. He was in Armenia trying to find Liz's genealogy, what a brave hero at the age of 77 going to another country to strive and fulfill on of Liz's dreams that she could never accomplish. He died of a heart attack alone in his room. He was such a good generous man. He was the kind of man that was silent about his good deeds. He has touched many lives. We all have our time to go and I know he so desperately wanted to be reunited with Liz again, he missed her so much and felt very lost without her. What a great man who had so many accomplishments. We love you and will miss you so much! I will try no to be too sad for me and my kids because I know you are home now.

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Shane started Kindergarten and really truly LOVES it! He is learning how to read and quite to my suprise, he is so excited every morning to sit down with me and read. He is being so patient with it which is very uncharacteristic of him. Brock tails along and pretends to read too, it is pretty cute! He is really picking up on his letters and sound though! Transformers is all we really hear around our house right now. Brock is especially into them! His favorite quote is "transform and roll out". He is always pretending to be Bulkhead, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime (Optimus Brock sometimes too) and a few other I am blanking out right now. I love watching there little imaginations at work it so so cute! We went to Walmart the other day and candy corn is just about my favorite thing in the world and I let Brock hold the bag while we went to the check out line, as he is holding it he looks up at me and says, this is my mission mom, to eat all the treats. I cracked up, it truly is his mission in life, I swear it!

I am still pregnant and very miserable, the picture is of me at 30 weeks. I have made the decision to try everything (nonharmful of course) I can once I hit 36 weeks to get this kid out!!! My belly is so huge and it REALLY hurts this time around. I have always gotten really big with my pregnancies but this one is off the charts! I am very excited to meet this little guy and have him in our family. We are pretty much ready for him, just waiting now!

Dan still has not found any work, besides construction, but we are at least getting interviews lately. We just got notified that his last one went to someone else which seems to be the normal song and tune of our life lately, but he has another one on Friday.

The first picture is od my little sis Hillary and Dan after I did tyheir glitter toes, yes Dan let me do his toes! The third one is of Shane who fell asleep with Dan head phones for shooting on his head. That kid cracks me up!!!

We never got to move, which I was very very very...........sad about. The old lady that lives upstairs bruised her leg.....it is healed now but they couldn't move because of it. Go figure. I have been kind of looking for other places but I keep thinking we need to just hang tight and see if we can actually get some sort of a miracle and find a job. Maybe I am being foolish, every opportunity that has knocked on our door the last year has not worked out. I am getting tired of hoping.