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Sedona

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Pete and Victoria came to AZ on vacation. We had a great time in Sedona.

Life

Good morning my babies. Mothers Day is tomorrow and I will be in Sturgis, though Grandma Eagan does not know that yet. We are house hunting again. When we ask God for help He tends to flood the basement. We are going to look in a new area, not where we had planned to live, but maybe where He wants us. I have been reminded once more how He is always taking care of us, though we are thinking we want something else He knows what we need. The knowledge we learned from the disaster of my dream house has given us the tools to make a good decision about our second choice, one we really thought was best for Grandma. Now we move on. It may be we will not find today's jaunt to be productive, but I have been reading a lot about being humble, if you let God control you always have inner peace because He is the only perfect in an otherwise imperfect world. He has my back, and though He may still allow my path to be bumpy, if I keep my eyes toward heaven He will guide my feet down the path. I will only stub my toe when I try to guide myself and question His direction. Thank goodness He has given my your father and you to brighten my path and then sent 10 little saints to bring me even greater joy. Thank you my babies for staying close as a family even though you live all so very far away. I am so grateful He has kept you close to Him and I rest easy knowing that no matter what He leads you through, His goal is to bring you eventually home to His big, big, house, and we will all be together for eternity. You are all my Mothers Day gift, a gift that I cherish every day of the year.

Love

Happy Easter Dance

Hi everyone! I just thought i would share some pictures of Abiageal with you today. She is getting so big! She is almost crawling already!!

Here is the ice fishing trip to Canada. Lots of big perch and John caught a 24" white fish. Tim and I both got 13" perch, but ofcourse mine was fatter. Oh and the walleye was 28" long.

I am finally getting Liz's cake pictures up. She took a cake decorating class and did a wonderful job. Oh and here are a couple of pictures of my walleye I caught on Wednesday. I will hopefully have more pictures of fish to come and probably more of the girls when Liz tells me what she want posted.

A Note From Beau

okay eagans ware green or else the pinch.

Luke is Michigan brainwashed

We were reading a Disney Babies book that he just found downstairs. Before we moved from town to the new house we read it daily several times and he had it memorized. Well it has been a while and although all the pages rhyme with the page before it when I asked him the next page after this one here is what we got...

It is a bright and sunny day.
The Disney Babies go out to...?

Luke's answer Michigan, hmm, doesn't rhyme but I'm with him that's where I'd rather go.

He did get frog right when the page before said log, and away when the day before said today, but he does have pictures to help him out. He also likes to look at the pictures and ask questions like why is Donald mad? Darn Donald can't you just be happy all the time. At least the fish Goofy caught looked happy. I'm sure we will read this daily several times again this week, I can't wait. The good news is Beau can read it, and I bet Anna might be able to handle it too, so I'm glad he found it.

News flash, as of tonight my kids and I will not be watching tv, the doors are shutting while Ben is in Billings and won't reopen until he returns on Friday. I have lots of ideas including cleaning the basement. Pray for me though this isn't going to be easy. Luke's morning is tv friendly to say the least, how will I entertain him (I think Walmart has some paints calling my name, is that cheating?)

Luke's Birthday Greeting

Luke is having fun with his song. He was being so goofy, but he was also really enjoying making his video for PopPop. I had to do both just because he kept going. The swords were a dollar find at Target, he loves them. He has always stuck things down the back of his shirt (paper towel rolls, paint sticks) to use as a sword, but now he has a real one, or two, or five. He loves them and the boys (including Ben) have had some mighty battles already.

In case you can't understand him, in the second video after his screech, or whatever it is he says, "Done, alright I'm getting out of here." Watch the end of Beau's again, it is very similar. Luke is a copycat.

Anna's Birthday Greeting

Anna has been sick all day. I think she might have strep so this is a little weak but she put in a little effort when she wasn't messing around with my phone. She was just kind of out of it, but here it is anyway. Happy Birthday PopPop, she said she would have loved for you to have held her today too.

Beau's Birthday Greetings

We didn't get a chance to talk to PopPop on the phone because he was out to eat. So we had to fashion our own birthday greetings. This is just the first of the three. Beau loves this version of happy birthday but isn't allowed to sing it to everyone. He determined since PopPop likes to joke it would be okay to sing it to him. I had to do a couple takes because he was ready before I was.

Jackass and Dicdic

Did you know that there are real animals called jackass and dicdic? I knew of course about the ass but not the dicdic. Beau has taught me so many new things I can't even begin to share them all. He really liked sharing this information with us because he knows they are cuss words, but not when you use them to talk about the animal. Off to hockey.
Bridget

Just Luke

Luke is always so delightful. Okay not always, but he sure can make people smile just with his smile. This picture is from a week or so ago, he loves playdoh. He also loves pink. This was our conversation a little while ago, he scratched his finger.

L: "Mom, there's blood, I got a bandaid from Anna."
Me:"Okay, let's see. Luke this is a pink bandaid."
L:"I know, I reawy lub pink, reawy I lub it."
Me:"Okay, let's put it on."
L:"yup, I reawy lub pink."
He loves to repeat himself, like I don't get it the first time, guess he takes after Ben that way.

The Eagan girls at Christmas

Safe with Daddy
Mommy time

Warm weather made for lots of games outside
Those Eagan girls
Our Miss Claire Bear poses for Bama- the Claire Bear stare

We love Aunt Sarah
Anna and her red boots.



Well, I had so much fun with the Valentine pictures I decided to share some Christmas in Arizona with a few thrown in from Montana. We had a blast, hope we can do it again this year. We find out about the house this week, Ryan has a job interview, and Sean and I still need jobs, so keep those prayers coming.

Love

DR

hey fam
bridget said i had to post photos from Dominican Republic...there werent many because it rained the entire time, but we had a great time.

Well, I am practicing my photo taking skills and trying to set up good visuals. Bella and Claire have just shared photos with us, so here is my try. You are getting only the good ones. I took about 75, saved 52 and really think only 5 are good enough for printing. But I think I will be taking the tulle with me when I visit Phoenix again. I think the girls will love playing in it like Caroline and Abiageal did. Anna, I will bring you some too.