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Off To The Fair

Posted by Heather Manning On August - 20 - 2011

Isaiah 50:7 But the Lord God helps me: therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.

It’s almost the end of the Iowa State Fair and we still have not been. Today is the day and I am really hoping that it stays cool out. One of those, please God, you know how much I hate the heat and the bees, let it stay cool today, type of prayers.

The kids love it so much though.

Pato loves it.

I just need to stay far far far away from the fudge selling vendor. They are there every year and it is the only thing I have always bought to bring home with me. Butterscotch fudge, white chocolate fudge, toffee fudge, pumpkin fudge, they make it all!

I’m not helping myself at all am I?

So, I’m thinking – food on a stick….. because that is what our fair is famous for, that and the butter cow, some games for the kids, the varied industry building – for the kids, walking around, good exercise for me, than off to my grandma’s house. I did not know there was a Manning family get together until last night. Today would be my grandma and grandpa’s 72 wedding anniversary, and my grandpa’s 94 birthday. He passed away on Dec 9, 2006, 7 days after Leecey was born. We were in the same hospital at the same time, on different floors and I could go see him. It’s ok. I was there the day he passed away. My grandma has been missing him a lot lately and I think having the entire family with her on their anniversary is a fabulous idea. Grandma needs all of us there with her.

Since I can’t keep a straight thought because everyone is up and moving and yelling and shouting near me as I am blogging I will sign off and leave you with a picture of what I call the 3 musketeers.

Fuzzy, but shows myself, Angie, and Danielle, best friends since we were 13. That was at Angie’s wedding last Friday. I have more pictures….. from my phone. I keep forgetting my camera. Remind me to take that to the fair with us today.

Have a beautiful day and may the Lord bless and keep you!

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School Has Started

Posted by Heather Manning On August - 19 - 2011

Revelation 4:11 Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.

I am so behind period. I have tons of pictures from my phone because I’ll admit it, I have been horribly lazy about getting my camera out, but I just got the HTC Evo 4G and it has something like an 8MP camera so the pictures are great, after I figured out that I could adjust the coloring on them before I took the picture. Jordan’s pic is a little washed out because I didn’t catch that until later.

My rock star off to 6th grade. His first year in middle school. His first year at the school I graduated from. (It used to be the high school, now it is the middle school.) I was so proud when he walked up there, I couldn’t hardly stand it. He is doing so well. Making friends, watching girls giggle as they talk to him, sit by him, bump into him on purpose in the hallway. I have been praying so hard for Jordan to not see a twisted reflection of himself in the mirror. I want him to see himself the way God made him, beautiful handsome Jordan. I want him to have confidence as he walks down those halls so that others can see that handsomeness, that confidence that God has placed in him. He really truly is an amazing boy…. I suppose I should say young man. Can you believe that Jordan is going to be 13 in February? 1 and 1/2 years until he can get his driver’s permit. I could cry. Seriously. Thinking about how fast he is growing up? It makes me weepy. I’m a very lucky mama.

My little gorgeous angel….. sometimes…. Katiana. She was off to her first day of 2nd grade at her new school. We are in the same district as before, but she goes to a different elementary. She just happens to now go to school with her best friend Olivia. They have been BFFs since preschool. They aren’t in the same class, but they spend their recesses together. Her teacher called me yesterday and told me Katiana is doing fantastic. She is happy and making friends and just being the beautiful Katiana that God is helping her to be.

I tell you guys, seriously. I am just so happy. I look at my children, and so much more often now, I am just amazed that God loaned me these precious little humans to raise and to take care of. All of my children are just so wonderful.

Now to keep on working on them respecting and obeying me.

I never said it happened over night.

Have a wonderful beautiful day!

I have missed you guys so much!

Leave me comments and tell me how you all have been!!!!!

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Katiana and her Birthday Pics

Posted by Heather Manning On April - 23 - 2011

This post gets me caught up on pictures, which is a good thing because I’m sure I’ll have tons of Easter pics tomorrow.

Katiana turned 7 on April 6. We had the family birthday party that night and she had a slumber party on the Saturday after that. My family came to that too. We had so much food as I had planned for 10 girls but everyone had plans except for (thank goodness!) Kat’s BFFs.

Kat and Alyce

Nano

Jordan

Kat wanted fruit pizza for her birthday and cake for her slumber party. This is the pizza. I forgot mandarin oranges which amazes everyone, including myself because that is my favorite.

Blowing out her candles

I think I need to make some more. That was so good!

Some of her presents – helmet and roller blades from us. Pads from my sis and her family. Her big presents wasn’t ready that day. She had to wait until Saturday to get her iPod touch. We bought it used (she’s 7, though she does take better care of her stuff than Jordan), the only thing wrong? The screen was cracked. Pato knows someone who fixes screens for like $40.

She loves her roller blades! And her helmet which means we can take the training wheels off her bike finally.

Her birthday party cake. She picked it out.

Alyce, Kat, and her BFFs Olivia (from preschool – I love that they still love each other) and Faith (from school). Olivia and Kat will be at the same school next year since we moved from one elementary in our district to another (there are 5 or 6 – I can’t remember). We’ll have play dates with Faith because those 2 adore each other.

Kat, Olivia, and Faith

And again, Olivia, Kat, and Faith.

I think we need to have another slumber party with the girls. They were so good and had so much fun!

Have a great day!

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Des Moines St Patrick’s Day Parade Part 3

Posted by Heather Manning On April - 22 - 2011

Final post on St Paddy’s day. Thank goodness. I’m tired of looking at these pictures now. You don’t even know how many pictures I took that day. You know, that’s the benefit and problem with digital cameras. You just keep shooting, never worrying about running out of film. Then you have 700 pictures of a 2 hour period to go through.

The Deer Slayer

Cool woman on a tractor

One of the belly dancers

Another clown

part of the Green man group?

Pulling the bus

Loved the hula hoopers

And her outfit. I want those pants.

She’s fun!

Tricks on bikes

Another biker

Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

People in green

That’s it! That’s all the St Paddy’s day pics I’m putting up. Tomorrow…Kat’s birthday pictures. Then I shall be caught up on pictures. I didn’t take a lot when I didn’t have my desktop because I knew I wouldn’t be uploading them anytime soon. It is time to get it all back to normal.

Have a great day!

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Des Moines St Patrick’s Day Parade Part 2

Posted by Heather Manning On April - 20 - 2011

I think this is going to take at least another post. I have more pictures to go through still. Must share the fun ones!

Let’s get this party started since I have a boatload.

Dudes on bikes in green

I love this guy.

And that guy

He (she?) is just fun! And I want those socks and shoes.

scooter? Bike? Big Wheel?

Nano and his mohawk

The clown who terrified Nano.

A pig in a truck

See Junie in the back?

Nano saying NOOOOOOOOO!

Move back says the guy in the green shirt in front of the truck…they didn’t listen long.

Ducks…or patos if you speak Spanish.

Greyhounds – that one in front is really really skinny. They aren’t supposed to have their ribs out like that are they? Rescued?

Love the kilts!

Love her outfit!

We all need a motorized cooler

Loved listening to this group.

Alright, off to edit more! Ready for part 3.

Have a great day!

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Des Moines St Patrick’s Day Parade Part 1

Posted by Heather Manning On April - 18 - 2011

How often do you see that title in April? I’m going to say not often. I’ve got to get caught up on pictures though. I think this is going to be a multi-multi- part post because of how many pictures I took. I’m not posting all of them but it was hard to choose between all the parade attendees!

Junie Bee – after she calmed down because she saw….. DOGS! She isn’t actually a dog you know. She’s just a person on 4 legs.

I made her the bow that morning because I didn’t have any green clothes for her. (I know! Can you believe that? So much going on after the fire I didn’t think about getting her a shirt until last minute and I couldn’t find one.)

Junie

3 of my 2 legged kids. Jordan was at his dad’s and didn’t want to come to the parade. Love the faces.

My nephew Carter – who made it into the paper with that hair.

My cutie patootie niece Taylor

My SIL Shelley

Showing the backside

Ok, seriously, that dog is not spoiled or anything.

I wore the green too.

The DM PD ride in style

Guys in kilts w/bag pipes

Dancing an Irish jig

I love him – I don’t know why, but I do.

More wearing paid

Salute!

Who doesn’t love a matching golf cart?

The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick

All hail the Queen

The DM FD

Yes, Junie did wake up for the dogs. She had to let them know she was in the crowd too.

This little fuzz bucket is so cute.

What’s the purple hat mean? He’s in charge of this group obviously.

Yeah, you should have seen Nano’s reaction to the clown.

That will be tomorrow’s post.

Have a great day!

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Pictures From February

Posted by Heather Manning On April - 17 - 2011

Finally. I know, you are all so excited! You’ve been waiting for this. Haven’t you?

Ok, maybe I’m so excited. I’ve been waiting for this.

My desktop is set up.

I pulled over 800 pictures off my SD card and my camera thanks me.

February pictures really only consisted of the boys’ birthday party.

Jordan turned 12 and Nano turned 2 on February 23.

I went through all of the pictures and narrowed it down to a few.

No fancy dancy editing because I need to fix my monitor calibrations.

It’s all screwed up.

So, if the color on the pictures look wanky, you now know why.

I figure every couple of days I’ll go through some pictures and share them. It may take me awhile. But boy it feels good to be back on my desk top. It’s home baby.

Christiano opening the adaptor to his MobiGo – don’t ask why the adaptor and not the MobiGo – I had 2 kids to take pictures of.

Jordan’s new soccer t-shirt

A tad backwards – opening the t-shirt.

Jordan and one of his friends.

Again – we are backwards. Daddy opening Nano’s Big Wheel

Tell me you can hear what he is saying here. Mama!!!! Thomas! His new Thomas the Train Big Wheel.

Nano and the girls

I didn’t actually get that many pictures of them opening presents. There were more. Jordan’s big present was a Kindle. When your kid asks for something that isn’t a video game, you jump. May I say, I’m jealous. I like his better than mine. I have a Kindle 2. He has the newest version of mine and it is so much easier to read – and I thought mine was awesome. His can be read in the sun. Mine…not at all.

My little prego sister who is due in July.

Mr Nano

Taylor and her a-hem – boyfriend.

MJ has been family approved – he did Michael Jackson The Experience (on the Wii) with my sister and everyone else. Love that kid!

The birthday cake – the 2nd take. It looked bad the first time they made it.

Nano blowing out his #2.

Jordan blowing his #12. Yes, that is a huge stain down the front of my sweatshirt. Nano spilled strawberry pop all down me.

So, that was the boys’ birthday. Next up…St Paddy’s Day parade!

Have a great day!

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Zuleica

Posted by Heather Manning On March - 25 - 2011

What would you do if someone offered you a free Chihuahua? (i don’t know if she is pure bred, she is smaller than Junie and Junie only weighs 8 lbs.)

Yeah. Me too.

That’s Zuleica (Yep, I edited that – I looked at her tag and figured out how to spell it.). The Chihuahua who hates me. I need some tips. She is extremely scared. She let the kids pet her in the car on the way home but now that we are here she’s just hiding in a pile of clothes that I need to go through to see what is good and what needs to be thrown out.

She spent the night jumping to the door handle on my front door, like if she could just get up there she could get out.

She can almost touch the door handle.

I didn’t know such a small dog would be able to jump so high off the ground without a running start.

Junie keeps trying to hump her.

For real.

I would think after what Junie went through at the puppy mill she would never want to subject another dog to that.

Guess she’s so happy with us she forgot.

I told the kids if she doesn’t calm down and stop trying to bite me, she’ll have to go back. She only does it when you try to pet her. If I have the leash in my hand, she’ll stand there rigid letting me put it on her to go outside. She’s definitely different from Junie. Junie has been my shadow dog since we got her.

Here’s hoping she relaxes and starts to like us.

Have a great day!

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