Cake Walk

The kids were having a great time this Sunday at the Knights of Columbus!

Ready for Easter

Rainee, Chloe, and Alec are all dressed for Easter. Awesome dresses and a handsome young man ready to hunt for Easter Eggs

Visit from the Easter Bunny

Visit from the Easter Bunny at the Knights of Columbus Council 4721 Easter Party. A Good Time was Had by All!

Easter Egg Hunt, and a good time was had by all...

I will embed the videos I took as well, but, in the meantime, here are a couple of the pics from the Easter Egg Hunt at the Knights of Columbus Hall (Council 4721). A good time was had by all, including our grandchildren, Rainee, Chloe, and Alec Million!

Quality Time with the Grandkids

I am putting up a couple of videos from time with Kadence, Rainee, Alec, and Chloe. The first is some great time with Kadence. She was captured doing some pretending in the bathroom, playing and having a blast.




The second video is a visit to Chandler park. Enjoy as they play!

Wow! In like a Lamb or Lion?

March is here and Spring is not far behind. I never could remember what the groundhog (or Mother) did on Ground Hogs Day so I am never remembering what it is supposed to be like!

Well, Linda and I have been married 11 years a week from this Saturday! I just hope she feels the same way but I adore her more today than ever before! Our Anniversary is March 14th, (1998). I pray that God will continue to bless us and our children and grandchildren!

It did not go as well as we hoped for Jose' but it did go much better than we imagined. I hope that makes sense. He could have, and probably should have, received a much worse situation but ended up with better. We will not see him for awhile, at least a year and as long as 3 or 4 years. I know this is cryptic but, for those of you that know the circumstances, this should make pretty good sense. Keep Jose' and his children, Chandler, Chasity, Cayden and Destiny in prayers.

Let's see, I think that we 'spring forward' this weekend. The following weekend, that of the 14th, begins Spring Break for Tulsa Public Schools! Boy, am I ever ready!

I have a nifty video which I will upload to YouTube and embed, hopefully, tonight. It is of Kadence when she spent the night with us a couple of week's ago. She is very imaginative and had a blast. I almost forgot, Chandler and Chasity spent the night last weekend. We all survived! We had a great time!

Memory Lane with Rainee

Here is Rainee when she was 2 with Uncle Michael

Rainee and Uncle Michael carved some Pumpkins for Halloween in 2003

Also in 2003, Grandpa and Rainee began a tradition which continues today of baking Peanut Butter Cookies together. When this was taken, Grandpa did most of the work and Rainee did the "Crisscross". When we did this a couple of weeks ago, Rainee did ALL of the cookies except for putting them in and taking them out of the oven!

Our 8th Anniversary of Being Grandparents!

This is our Princess, Rainee Million. She is 8 today, Feb 19th, 2009.

Here is our Princess in the snow. Rainee has been a wonderful light to Linda and I. On Feb. 19th, 2001, I held this precious Princess for the first time and can't begin to say how that changed my life forever.

Here she is with her Uncle Andrew.

A Day at the Park with some of the Grandkids

Sunday, we had a blast at Lafortune with Landon, Kayla, Kadence, Rainee, Chloe, and Alec. Alec is having fun being spun around here by his Uncle Landon.

Chloe is getting a hug from her cousin, Kadence as Landon looks on.

Kadence running in the park!

The Morris', Kayla holding Kadence, and daddy, Landon. News of note, Kayla is EXPECTING our 13th grandchild!

Snow Days!

Well, school was out Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week and, at least, some of us enjoyed the extra cool days! Rainee came over on Wednesday and played in the 'snow'. (Okay, in Oklahoma, the white stuff is not always Snow. This was a combination of sleet and freezing rain but there was a little snow on top of the mess!)

Yeah, that is ICE! But Rainee was having a great time!

Drew popped by to play with Rainee and get a bit on the cold and wet side!

On a more serious side, Jose' is not out of the woods yet. He has a hearing on Mother's birthday, Feb 2nd. Keep him in prayers, he definitely needs them!

Arroyo Christmas Preparations

From Christmas Village

From Christmas Village

The Arroyo Christmas Village has expanded this year to include a Nativity Scene, School, Mayor's Mansion, roads etc.

From The Arroyo Family

Rainee decorates the Christmas Tree

From The Arroyo Family

Grandma and Rainee preparing the decorations

From The Arroyo Family

Holly and Rainee - Taking a little break

From The Arroyo Family

Almost done, Rainee has completed most of the decorations

Merry Christmas from the Arroyo Family to yours.

Grandparents take some Grandkids to the Zoo

Is this a Monkey? Chloe showing off.

Or is this a Monkey? Or is it Rainee that is showing off?

Kadence at the Petting Zoo.

Rainee, Alec and Kadence at the petting zoo!

Brody Not Out Of The Woods

Last night was a night to thank God and be anxious at the same time. Brody reminded us that he, though having done incredibly well this past two weeks, is still Eight Weeks before his due date! He stopped breathing in his mother's arms last night and had to be resuscitated.

As Frances watched them revive by bagging her 3 pound, 12 ounce baby boy in the NICU, she was all too aware of how fragile life is. They did successfully revive Brody and told Frances that it would be alright. I guess it is easy, when you work around the fragile all the time, to see things in 'alright' terms. For those of us that do not encounter it everyday, or when we do encounter it, it is our own flesh and blood, it is hard to see it as "alright".

This episode did remind us, and them I hope, that Brody is still in the woods, that he is still early and his lungs are still not to be taken for granted and are still developing. No matter how well he is doing, his body still is not ready to be in the world just yet and needs our prayers and the Hand of God. Though he was born two weeks ago, Brody was not due until August 31st, still almost 2 Months away!

So, please, keep him in prayers. I believe in prayer, it works! God Bless you all and thank you for your prayers.

Thanksgiving

From Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! More pictures from this holiday feasting to come! CLick on the picture below to see pictures from both of our Thanksgiving celebrations.

Thanksgiving