Family Time March 2009

First, I will start off with a really cool story that I have not shared here on my blog yet. David and Amy had a brother they knew about but had not ever met. They both talked about how cool it would be to meet him one day and we all prayed that one day it would happen.



Going to August of 2007 while David was working in Chicago for his company, his dad calls him one day and says hey I just got off the phone with your brother's wife. David says, yeah ok not really understanding what he was saying. And his dad says, "you know your brother Joel, I just got off the phone with his wife." David said he was at the mall and had to sit down on one of the benches close by to take it all in. So he and his dad are talking about his talk with Julie (Joel's wife) and then he says do you know where this city in IL is. David is like yeah it's about 5 min from where I am staying. His dad told him that is where Joel and his wife live.



So for the last 8 months that he was working in Chicago, he was only 5 miles from his brother. We totally believe that God had a hand in David working there at that particular time. So David got Joel's information and called to go have dinner and meet him. He did just about a week later and it was like they were never apart from each other. They hit it off very well from the beginning. I was so excited for him because this is something we had talked about before and I knew he was happy to get to finally meet his brother.



On labor day weekend 2007 David, Joel, and Julie all flew to Dallas, while Collin and Bucki (David's parents) drove from Tennessee to Dallas to meet Joel. We all had an awesome weekend of getting together and meeting!

At the end of March of this year 2009 we all got back together for some family time and pictures. This time Joel and Julie brought their gorgeous daughter Keira who was 8 months old. Here are some professional pics we had taken by the awesome Angel. Thank you Angel for capturing such wonderful photos of our new family! These pictures will be greatly and forever treasured!




These are all out of order.

This is Grandma and Grandpa with all the gran girls!!! At this point Avree was DONE taking pictures!

Top: David, Amy, Joel

Bottom: Me (Holly) and Julie

And this is our CRAZY family!

Ok, Ok, it's not really us but here is a serious shot!

Joel, Julie, and Keira

(beautiful family)

Gracee loved Keira and would NOT leave her alone! She also loved Joel! This shot captures her perfectly!

The Farrell Girls!

Me, Bucki, Amy, Julie

ALL the Farrell Girls!

The Farrell Boys! (ALL of them, hehe)

The boys and their girls!

Sibling Love!

The Farrell "adults" :-)

The Farrell Little Girls!

My girls!

The Farrell Little Girls!

Fun Jumping Pictures!

Soccer Camp June 8-12

This is our first year for soccer camp and we decided to host a British Soccer Coach. It was an awesome experience and we got to know three really great coaches.

Coach Dan stayed with us and was Kalee's coach. Coach Leon stayed with our friends and was Gracee coach. And Coach Gayle stayed with our other friends and helped with both girls' groups.

Pictures in NO ORDER! LOL!!!





I have no idea what they are doing! But it was cute!



Kalee and her friend Leah



Action Shot




They got put on teams and Kalee's team was Team England and they wanted her to wear a red shirt so I spruced it up a little with a little help from daddy!




Group Shot of Kalee's group at the end of the week!

Gracee's group shot at the end of the week!

Gracee and her T shirt!

Coach Dan and Kalee

Coach Dan and the girls!

Coach Leon and Gracee

First Day of Soccer!

Gracee's 5th Birthday Party May 17, 2009

On May 17, 2004 at 1:32 PM I gave birth to my beautiful Gracee Rhodes. She was 7lbs 10oz and 21 in long. It's really hard to believe that she is 5 YEARS OLD!!!!

We had her party at the Splash Park in Rockwall. It's was still kinda chilly out so not much splashing was done. But the kids had a great time!




Here is her Mermaid Cake.


My Beautiful 5 year old!!

Time to blow out the candle!

Presents!

Some of the kids at the party!

A little soccer was played....by daddy! LOL!!

Mermaid swimsuit she got for her birthday!

Pinanta Time

We're Pregnant!!

I know it's been FOREVER since I posted. Life kinda got away from me. But hopefully I will get back into my groove of writing here soon. I need to update lots of events that have been going on the past 3 months. But this post is to announce our pregnancy!!! We are expecting baby #4 due sometime mid-March! We are SOOOOO excited! I know some people start different pregnancy blogs but you will here all about my pregnancy on this blog. Not sure how much I will post, I am not promising anything! LOL! But I will post as much as I can. Here are the girls responses to when they found out mommy was having a baby!

Kalee: "screeeeech" with lots of giggles
Gracee: "No your not" hehehe
Me: Yes, I am.
Gracee: "Really?!?" hehehe
Avree: (we told her at another time with just her) There is a baby in my belly.
Me: No, there is a baby in mommy's belly
Avree: No, in my belly

Every now and then she will say something about a baby being in her belly and play with her belly button a little bit! LOL!!
The girls are so excited and after we told them you could here them talking about my mommy is having a baby I can't wait!!

We told Kalee she couldn't tell anybody yet because we wanted to make sure all the grandparents and aunts and uncles knew first. But she got to tell some of her friends and she has been so EXCITED to tell them. We asked Kalee and Gracee if they wanted a brother or sister and Kalee said a sister and Gracee said a brother!!

I am surprised and thrilled to be pregnant again. God has truly blessed us!