11 Years Ago....

I gave birth to the most beautiful, fun, loving, caring, smart, baby boy! He has brought us SO much joy in our lives! We have watched him grow from a baby boy to a young man! It's so hard to believe that my baby is turning 11 years old! Man oh man do they grow up fast!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKSON ALEXANDER!!!!

WE LOVE YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH!

Love to all,

Strawberries

Recently we went out to the Ottawa Farms Strawberry Festival to see what it was about. We picked lots of strawberries and took a long hay ride through the farm. We ate strawberries for weeks - well the kids and I did! Daddy not a fan of strawberries. Nothing like a fresh strawberry!

Love to all,

A Ramirez outing...

We love going and driving through the Savannah Wildlife Refuge. The kids get such a kick out of it looking for the Gators. I get a kick out of taking pictures, so as we were driving through one day I took advantage of taking some scenery pictures. I think they are good so I had to share!





Love to all,

The time has come....

I wish I could say it "ain't so" - but the time has come. Some are happy, some are thrilled, some are in disbelief, but for me, I'm torn up! I am currently holding back the tears as I type!!!

It's official........Jose has been released, by his Dr., to go back to work on the streets.

I have such mixed emotions about this. I'm so HAPPY for Jose, cause he gets to go back to the job that he loves so much. After waiting and thinking that he physically wouldn't ever be able to go back to the streets. And after being so physically and mentally torn down! Here he goes! Some don't understand and will never understand Jose's love for his job. But me, on the other hand, I know and completely understand! I see the glow and sparkle in his eyes as he puts on his uniform. Or even when he's just talking about his job, he gets so gitty - like a child with a new toy! THIS IS WHY I HAVE TO BE HAPPY!!!!!

God has created such special men and women to have jobs of this sort - and through my eyes - they are called Heroes!

I know some of you are reading this and are thinking "Is she CRAZY?!" (for being upset). But none of you will ever know or understand how I feel (unless, maybe my fellow cop wives)! It's not easy being a wife of a cop. I know, I know it could be much worse! He could be going off to fight in the war in another country - for a year at a time. (My hat goes off to those families for sure)! But I Thank God he isn't.....I think my family would have to admit me to a mental institute if he was!

The last 11 months have just been AMAZING! We (as a family) HAVE GROWN SO MUCH!!! Not only with each other, but in God! We have been able to spend SO much time together and do such amazing things! I wouldn't have traded it for the world! In all the years of being married and having a family, Jose has always worked shift work or worked long hours, so he hasn't been with us in every adventure! But to me the last 11 months have really made up for that! WE have been able to go and do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted, without stopping and having to look at the calendar to see if "Daddy has to work"! IT HAS BEEN A TRUE BLESSING!

Jose not going back to work IS NOT AN OPTION - IT'S LIFE! So I have to get over this and I will. It's just gonna take me a little bit of time to get back into the swing of things without him being there so much! I will be okay! But right now for my friends and family that are reading this: I ask for your Prayers! Not just for me and my strength to get past this, but for our kids strength and understanding (they aren't liking this either), ALSO for Jose and his safety. It's not a safe world out there, so please keep him in your daily prayers - TO BE SAFE ON THE STREETS!

LOVE TO ALL,

We had Snow!

YES....in Savannah, Georgia we had snow! We know it's very, very hard to believe! Trust me - we didn't believe it until we saw it! What a blast we had too! It brought back such great childhood memories for me! Growing up in Denver, Colorado, snow was one of my everyday adventures. Yes, I can actually tell my kids that I walked to and from school in the freezing cold snow! But I loved it and seeing it here was a real treat!

Our house the next morning!

Jose, was acting like the biggest kid of us all. I don't think I've ever seen him so excited and thrilled to be outside playing!

(here he is trying to make a snow angel!)

We got home at about 7:30 Friday night from a day of scooter-pootin'...as it was raining he got the kids bundled up and we all stood in the garage and watched it change from rain, to sleet to the biggest snow flakes ever! We let the kids stay outside as late as they wanted (knowing they might not ever experience something so beautiful leaving in Savannah)! They finally gave it up at about 10:30 that night.....the cold and wetness got the best of them and it was time to go in!

Love to all,

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope you all had wonderful Holidays like the Ramirez family did.

We spent Christmas here at home. It was very nice and relaxing. Even though we did miss our families being with us on such a wonderful Holiday....we had a great day! Christmas morning is always fun but very hectic! Tristan decided it was time to wake up at 1:30 AM! She went into the living room and went plunging through all the presents. She came into our room and proceeded to tell us everything she and her brother got from Santa. We had to calm her down and make her go back to sleep. That was a chore! Eventually she fell back asleep, but not for long! The kids finally convinced us to get out of the bed at 6:30 AM! We had a blast! We all got more than we could ever ask for!

For New Years Eve we went to Atlanta to visit our families. Jose's family was in from Puerto Rico, so it was Great to visit with all of them. We were able to take some great pictures! It was nice, COLD, and a very, very relaxing trip!

We hope you all have a very Blessed year!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Love to all,

Tristan's Baptism

We took a short weekend trip to visit some very special friends in North Carolina last month. During the visit to see the Jones Family we went to their church and watch a very special Christmas program. The program was called "The Promise". It was a very inspiring musical, play about the Story of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! After seeing that program, curious little Tristan starting asking lots of questions about Jesus and the devil. We did our very best to explain the life and death of Jesus along with the evil devil and what he tries to accomplish during your life. She was very interested and then decided that she wanted to ask Jesus into her heart! We then had her talk to our Pastor, Brother Bob, and let him explain the meaning of Baptism and they life of being a Christian. She was so excited and ready to be Baptized after that.

Well today was the day! Tristan was Baptized. We are so proud of her and her decision (all on her own)! We pray that she continues to live her life as a Christian and teaches others all about him and the Wonderful things he can do !!!

The video for some reason will not download to this website. I will have to try at a later date, cause right now I'm about to go off the deep end trying to figure it out!

Love to all,