AllOurFamilies: Countdown to Holli's baby!

AllOurFamilies: Countdown to Holli's baby!

Lacey's Baby!

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Countdown to Holli's baby!

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lost everything!

Hello again all,
I recently got a nasty virus on my laptop =( and lost alot of pictures and music... music I can get again but most of my pictures that I had loaded on here are gone forever.. This makes me so sad! I still had some very very cute ones of the grandkids. Luckily Bens laptop has some really nice pics, all we need to do now is convince him to add to this blog and we might get to see what a good photographer he is turning into! So, please help me by bugging him anytime you see him or talk to him and tell him its his turn to blog and to please add some pics!!!!
** Liz, thank you for the nice comments, you are the sweetest! I sure miss you all very much and hope I get to see more of you all during the summer.**

The End....?

Everyone has had such a busy time lately! We all have new things in our lives that keep us that way. I've heard rumor that being busy is a good thing, so with that in mind... I guess most of us are in a really good place!!! This makes us happy and I'm most thankful for that.
An apology to those that I didn't get around to adding here in our family album(s)... I am very disorganized! And also busy.

It seems that none of my friends want to be bothered with their invitations to visit my amatuerish blog, and those that have come by, well.... we all know how difficult it is to create a google i.d. in order to leave comments and such. My friends have busy lives too.

So, family and friends, for now the AllOurFamilies blog will be defunct up until I either decide to update or learn how to really blog and make things interesting or just delete it altogether.
Thank You all that have been supportive. Ben and I love each and every one of you!!!!! And are so very proud of our children!

We hope that you all will visit us when we finally get moved into our new home. That should happen between May 30 and June 1st. We are very excited at finally being able to have our "own" home for the first time together.

All our love, Ben and Juli

"Our House"

ok, these are only two of several pictures
of our new place, the front and the fireplace. I have alot more pictures.... but don't want to blog down my blog (haha) anyway, just wanted to add these so anyone who actually visits might get an idea of a little of it.

Babysitting Tyler..

Two quick pics of Tyler...
He is "fix it" his own bed with pillow and blanket. He was so tired and so cute!
During bath time.. He loved splashing Grandma and playing in the warm water. He went down for a nap
soon after. And I dried off!

on blogging...

Well, here we are, tons of pictures still for me to go thru and wanting to post every single one. I still haven't gotten Bens parents and brother (with family). Between buying a house and all the new things that have been happening, I have pictures scattered everywhere and of course I can't add ALL of them.
This whole blogging thing is still very new to me.. I look at Katys and Lizs and I feel very amateurist! But hopefully with some practice, I too, can get to a place where people want to see my blog, and who knows!! Actually leave me a comment or two!
Ben and I are at such a good place in our lives right now and it took us a little time to get here. We appreciate EACH and EVERY one of You that we have in our lives, you makes us feel like a part of something bigger than each of us alone.
Being Grandparents has been the absolute best thing ever! We are proud to see what you all have done and are doing in your lives. We may not, either one of us, had much of a part in it but thanks to you all, we are NOW a part of it and its a feeling that I cannot descibe to you.
We have such LOVE for our Family! Huge, extended, wholly unpredictable, diverse, wonderful FAMILY. Thank you all so much.

Michael

And here, we have the irresistable Michael. ! Braxtons little brother. Took me way too long to get these posted (sorry).
With these cheeks, impossible to not want to kiss him all the time! Good work Chad and Katy!

Blake

Isn't he adorable? This is Tylers little brother Blake. He is perfect. We are so lucky to have them all and to be able to be a part of their lives. Bens sons with their wives, sure put out some darn cute kids!

We have had such fun watching Tyler while Mommy and Daddy were at the hospital bringing -- as yet unnamed-- his baby brother into the world. Tyler brightens our days when we spend time with him. We were so busy that we just totally forgot to take pictures!! <> Also, when we took Tyler to meet his new brother, he didn't like the hospital too much, and part of that may have been that he didn't get enough of a nap and was a little tired. AND YET AGAIN, we forgot our camera!! We couldn't believe how dumb we were! However, I know we will get another chance, hopefully today and this time we will glue the camera to our hands or something to make sure we take pictures. We are so excited to have our 4th grandson join our family! ALL of them soooooo darn cute and adorable and we just want to kiss them all, all day! Stay tuned..

Babysitting Braxton!

On May 10th 2008, We got to babysit Braxton for the 1st time. We were overjoyed and had so much fun! Braxton is such a happy little boy and didn't fuss or cry once! We had treats and played with the "ruff ruff" doggy. But mostly we played with all the balls. Braxton loves balls! And we love Braxton.
He had spaghetti for dinner and
we ran out of batteries in the camera before we had time to take pics of it.
But trust me it was adorable!

My Father

C.E.Shumway (my dad)
12/25/1925 - 08/31/2004 Miss You Dad.

Juli's Family

This is most of my family.. not all of us were there, but all of my siblings, their kids, their kids-kids....... Its a nice picture. We had a great day, we all missed my Dad a great deal but felt that he was there is spirit.

Awww

At the Zoo. I think Grandpa Ben had more fun than Tyler did! But seeing these two bond at the zoo was just so amazing and we cherish this time that we were able to spend with Tyler and Liz. Funny tho... very hard to find pictures of Tylers Mom..

We Love Our Grandkids

Proud papa's! This was Braxtons blessing day, and we got a good shot of the two dads with thier first born sons, Chad and Braxton, Chris and Tyler. Gosh, they grow soooo fast.

Jim on his wedding day...where is Becky?? ( still trying to organize my pictures... ) I will find it and post here with Jim. Doesn't he look excited? and very handsome! We sure miss them.

Another of Holli, Lacey and Jake..... All smiling again =) This was in our back yard in the fall about two maybe three yrs ago. They look happy and this is one of my favorites.

April 3 2002

Hey, check this out, probably not alot of you got to see this event! Ben and I at our marriage ceremony, gotta love my "colors" of black and white and blue jeans! Not sure which one of us had the longest hair.. but, IT WAS SUCH A PERFECT DAY! We are so thankful to have found each other and to be able to have our families and to be a part of them, all together.

My Mom at her 75th birthday party. We had it at a park in Vineyard and it was a beautifull day. In this pic, my sister Liz is tying a ribbon around my moms head. She is pretending she thinks its a cute thing to do, too. We all had a great time. And Mom looked great. This pic came from my phone so not all hi quality but the smile is so worth it.

Braxtons 1st B-day

This adorable picture is Braxton at his 1st birthday party, he is eating his cake and looking so darn cute! We love it when we get to see the kids and grandkids!

Juli's kids

Here is a nice picture of Holli, Lacey and Jake that they gave me last year for Christmas. I Love this picture, they are all actually smiling! Trust me, thats not a sight we get to see every day.