Jayme

Jayme is engaged!!!! I am super excited for her. She has always been the independent one and never wanted to get married or have children. So it is super exciting to see her fall in love and want to do things she never has before. Settling down growing up and calming down! Love it!!! Nathaniel is one sweet young man too! He is going into the Army and they are getting married in our back yard before he goes. She will be going back to school soon and getting her nurses degree. I am a very Proud Aunt! I also decided when they have kid(s) I want them to call me Grantie (Greatest Auntie! ) lol and I thought would be funny to call John Gruncle! Greatest or Grumpest Uncle which ever works for you! lol I love the kids are getting older and learning more! However it does make me feel older! argh!!!! They love having Jayme and Nathaniel over here and I don't know how it will work but praying they get stationed with us in Korea!! Opps let the cat out of the bag! well will talk about that more later!!!

It is now April, Adina had a Princess Birthday party at church and we went to the Zoo for her birthday! The Whole family went to AR to be with Hayden and John for their birthday! Then we came home with an extra passenger, Granny Di. Leona's good friend and Johns second mom. She was just passing through to go spend time with Leona in Texas. Then we found out the Lampasas Baptist church youth were going to a youth rally in Coldsprings Texas which is only three hours away, so off the pass on Granny Di and to see our friends we missed so much! Was a wonderful trip and heard wonderful Gospel music and some fabulous preaching by a man named Terry Caffey. If you have never heard of him please look him up! So on to the next few birthdays and fun stuff of the summer!!

Amasiah Hope McBride

July we lost one baby and in Oct. I found out we were pregnant again! I was very happy! The baby was to be born on July 18th the day we lost Abia. God was so amazing. The pregnancy was progressing as normal, me throwing up all day every day for the first few months. John and I had not decided to find out what the sex of the baby was but I was sure it was a girl! LOL I then went in Jan. for our 12 week appointment, John had been on duty for seven days so I wanted a little down time so I went in alone. The doctor tried to find the heartbeat but couldn't find one with the doppler machine so they brought in the ultrasound machine. Once she found the baby I could tell at once there was no movement and I couldn't see a heart beat! So we had another doctor come check it out and no one could find a heart beat. So we scheduled a ultrasound in radiology for the next tuesday. We prayed and prayed for the next five days said our goodbyeloved on our other children and cried! Then we went in for the ultrasound on Tuesday the 17th of Jan. There was no Heartbeat and our second baby was now in heaven as well. We opted for the meds. to induce labor or in this case a miscarrage. When we got home we told the children and they cried and cried. It was a very hard few days! Wed. morning at 12:30 am I started having the miscarrage and the baby was out shortly after that! I ended up in the ER around four because I had lost way too much blood too fast! A few IV bags later and some rest I felt much better! We came home to discuss what to do with our little one. My mom flew in Thursday afternoon. John was scheduled to go to Florida with his unit in a few days so my mom and I went to see my grandpa Hicks and then take the baby to be buried in SC in a family plot! It was a long and very stressing trip!

Abia Angel McBride

Well it has been a while since I have blogged. There has been allot of changes. Last July the kids and I went to visit with my momma and family when I wasn't feeling well and asked Momma to watch the kids and Amy my sister-n-law to take me to the ER. I found out I was Pregnant and was losing the baby, then I found out I was bleeding into my abdomen and had a Tubal pregnancy that was bursting. I called John and he came up on emergency leave. They took me into surgery and removed the Baby and my left tube. I was pretty devastated, but we know the Lord is in control. We named that baby, who is now in heaven with the Lord, Abia Angel McBride. WE stayed there for two more weeks, the doctor who preformed the surgery was very nice and told us we could continue to have children at our discretion. It only diminished our chances by 20%

June 2011

Well Birthdays have ended! Adina had a Batgirl party, Ananiah had a Pool party with her friend Jeremiah, Asher and Azarias had a Cars birthday party! We had a great round! Only one left is me and we will just forget about that one! lol June has been super hot already! hit 104 already! wow not looking forward to Aug. Got a virus on my laptop and now working on cleaning it up and saving all my pictures and files soon will have all my pictures on one computer then have to save them all to disks! Plus planning our homeschool year and getting money saved for our books! I plan on working with A.C.E. mostly this year but I do plan to add some others geat books to our school year! I am excited about my homeschool planner and all the great info I have found on some blogs. May make it home for a vacation and my 15 year high school reunion!
All is well here at the McBride Home!

March Starts the Birthday season here at the McBride Casa! Adina's is the 14th of March John's and Hayden's is the 3rd of April, Ananiah's is the 28th of May and Azarias and Asher have June covered! the 17th and the 23rd respectively! That doesn't include the extended family Allison, Kaylee, Bay, and all the boys Joey, Josh, Matt. Soo Much fun Ananiah and Adina have been on a super hero kick so they want super hero parties Adina is in to Wonder Woman and Ananiah wants Hawk girl??? they found some of my old comic books and love them!! The PX gives some small ones out sometimes too. Captian America, Super Man, Spiderman, All those are people they pretend to be around here lately. Glad they are not into crazy things! Wink Wink. Now mommy's job is to find a way to make the cakes and decorations suitable for little eyes!!!! Fun Stuff

First post of the new year!

Sad I know it is almost March and I am just now posting something. I didn't do that well last year but I aim to do better this year! I am not sure who if anyone reads this blog but it is somewhere I can talk about my family! Well so much has happened since this time last year! Azarias was born and he is now 8 months old. He is growing so fast! He is trying to walk! pulling up on things and crawling faster then you would think. He walks the length of the couch and even has stood up by himself, but only for a few seconds! He goes from the couch to the chair and try's to jump to things. Asher is almost three and he is getting so big. Today he is not feeling well and said he was having a bad day because papa was at work. Such a daddy's boy! Adina is such a card, she is doing well in school and she is such a ham always playing jokes and messing with people. Ananiah is reading and doing school well also. She is such a big helper to me always helping with the baby. Such wonderful Children God has blessed me. I love my little family! Our Niece Jayme has moved in with us for a while so she can go to college and get her nursing degree. We are so proud of her. We love our Life in Louisiana, we have a fabulous church family and lots of new friends here. I still want to go over seas someday but for now we are content here in LA.

Well it is April and we just returned from a wonderful visit in Alabama and South Carolina! The kids did great in our travels! they travel so well for being so young! I think that is part of military life! We got to see friends from years ago and visit our previous church home in Alabama. My family visit was wonderful as well no drama or fights which is how I like it! lol The girls didn't want to leave Nana and Grandpas house! They are determined to go back with Nana when she comes to help with the baby! We will have to see how that pans out! lol Asher Loves his family as well and had so much fun! Everyone has commented on how brown he has gotten form being outside and how much bigger he has gotten! the girls have grown a bit as well! Ananiah is now in between sizes in her clothes and can wear a six if I tighten the waist band! lol Adina is in fours or fives depending on the brand! The are almost out of the baby section clothes and on to the big girl section! They seem sto grow so quickly! Ananiah is reading now so everywhere we got she is trying to read signs and pictures! I can't wait to get out some books for her to read once we get settled in a house! Adina is working on her letters and numbers still! I think she may be a right brain learner like me and we will haev to find ways to get her excited about school! Asher is counting and learning his colors and he learns more words everyday! I love to hear him say new things! lol He says Helk instead of help and peese instead of please. He is a funny boy! loves to make people laugh! Adina is getting used to being the middle child and now it will be Ashers turn to firgues that new place out when the baby comes! We are still looking at names we have two we are really thinkng and praying about! will fill yhou in later on that! The house situation is changing! we finally got a call from the housing office and they have a house for us so we should be looking at a house within the next few days! hopefully it will pass muster and we can move in soon! Well off to feed the masses!

Still no house LOL

Well we are going on month six and still no house! WE are still in Temp. housing. Not sure how much longer but we will hopefully be traveling to Fort Rucker for six weeks then w=once we get back the housing search begins again! the Apartment is fine and it works! We enjoy close time together and the kids are doing very well adjusting! They all three sleep in the same room which can be a trial at times but they love being close! Every now and again they get enough of each other and I have to seperate them! Things today are going different Asher is going to the Doctor tomorrow for more stomache issues! I pray it is just because it hurts to go potty not because there is any problem in his intestines. He is crying when he feels the "urge" to go and it is very uncomfortable! so hopefully the doctor will be able to fix this problem and he can start going again! John is leaving for Fort Rucker on the 14th which is the same day Ananiah is getting Bapisted and it is Adina's Fourth Birthday! It is amazing how fast time flies! Asher will be two Adina will be four and Ananiah will be six this year! The baby will be born in June hopefully before Ashers birthday! Hayden is growing up so fast he is so mature now and calls us regularly now which is a huge blessing! we will see him hopefully at the end of March! He turns 14 this year! soon he will be driving himself to see us! Crazy stuff! time flies!

We have managed to do quite a few new activities here as a family. We have been to the Natchitoches festival of lights, the cajun food festival in DeRidder, the local quilt show. the traveling fair was in town and we went to the circus in Lake Charles as well. We actually have gotten to do quite a bit of festiavls and things here in Louisiana. We have enjoyed it allot. The weather here is wet and we have had more snow this year then any of the years I have seen before! I think it has been a record year for snow almost everywhere! The kids loved it! We are still searching for a home and trying to determine where we will go from here! No word yet on the W3 board yet or if John has gotten a slot in the Guard yet. So no decisions have been really made! Once he gets into and finishes his Safety course at Fort Rucker we will make some more decisions on what to do for our family! God is the first deciding factor! Where He wants us to go, Live and work is the main concern right now! so Pray we have wisdom and guidence from Him! not much else to tell as of now! check back next montha nd maybe this roller coaster will have stopped somewhere! LOL

New baby, New year, (maybe a) New House, New Place

Well we all know I slack on this thing and have for a while! I am sorry! Not that I know how many people actually keep up with it but I should do better! I like to look back and read our accomplishments and activities! We have been busy this year! We usually have one activity with the church a month and a few other things going on! Well we had the Ladies retreat in Jan, it was fabulous! We spent the night at the church and had many ladies present a devotion and memories. It was really very good and so renewing for my Spirit! Then in Feb. We have had bowling with the childrens department, we had a wonderful time. Valentines day was nice! We went to the Circus with the girls one sat. It was great family time. John is taking classes at the local college so he is busy and always stressed but he is handling things so well! The new baby we found out is a boy so we are very excited about that! Ananiah has gotten saved and we are very excited about that! She will be getting baptisted soon. We got a chance to pick up Jaycee (adina's best friend from Lampasas) and she was here about four days! Church is the biggest activity around our house. WE go when ever the doors are open so that is busy time for us! We are still in Transistion housing, which is a two bedroom apartment on post. We have yet to find our new home. WE are ok but man would I love to find a house to rent around here. Renting is hard here too many people i guess! Supply and demand is high here so most places are out of our price range! We are trying so hard to get out of dept and work within our means! LOL funny when you say it out loud cause who really is ever out of debt? If you are give me some pointers! John's tour in the military is coming to a close and we are not sure if we are going to reinlist or find a new job somewhere. He is looking into many options, no open doors yet, but God will direct us when He is made it clear and it is His time to tell us! So the waitint is not actually killing me! the house thing bugs me a little mostly because I don't have our stuff all our stuff is in storage still! Not a big deal either we are sufficent in our provisions but funny not to have things when you want them! The baby is a boy so the name hunting has begun! I know it will ba an A name joust not sure what name it will be! I like them to have a great meaning and sound different! I dont like common names! lol so I have to be difficult in that area! My poor kids! Well I believe that is all that has gone on here for now! Pray for us to find the Lords direction in what to do for a job and where to find a houseand a name for this baby! Hopefully everything will be shown us before the baby comes in June!

Prayers

Ok well we are at a cross roads in Johns career and our lives! We have the oppertunity to move and to start a new phase in our lives. So Please pray for our wisdom in following Gods direction on our lives! We need wisdom and direction from God to make these very important decisions in our family! Thank you for all your prayers and thoughts!

New Year

ok it has been a while since i have updated this thing and I am sorry! I have even forgotten what my password was! I am slacker! Well We have moved to Louisiana and are living on post waiting for post housing to open up! We will be here at Fort Polk for three years I think! We are expecting a new little one due in June and John is now flying LUH's instead of blackhawks! We are doing well and I have updated pictures on my facebook! I think facebook took over my life for a while and now I am back to updating my blog! Hope this finds you healthy and happy in the new year!

What is new!

Ok here it is in the end of July and I am just now getting on here to fill everyone in! Well we did have some great moments this summer! We left on the 6th of July for our trip to South Carolina, and we got back on the 24th! We drove on to Little Rock and Picked up Hayden, through Tenn. on to NC then into SC. WE were going to stop and see my Grandfather but right before we did we found out four people in our Church had tested positive for N1H1 virus! Swine flu was bad in our church right as we left! Four people were tested positive, but quite a few others had all the symptoms just were not tested! So we barely missed that. But we did not want to infect my Grandfather who has COPD and a weak heart! Not a good combo! So we traveled on the my Dad and Moms in Clover! Was a fun trip! Does anyone remember the show with Sally fields the Flying nun? I love it and John and I found it in a Cracker Barrel along the way! LOL It is so cute! well we made it to my families! We had some very funny days in the pool, and juts relaxing time before my brothers wedding! John and I got to travel down to Augusta to see My friend Lindsay and Steve. Lindsay and Emma were in a terrible Accident. Their house blew up and they were put in the hospital in June. Steve and Lindsay lost a son in the accident. Emma is still in ICU for care for her burns. Lindsay and Emma are doing great and progressing so fast! Pray they will have a swift and painless recovery, and physical therapy.
My brother and his wife had a beautiful and Godly wedding on the 18th. I will post pictures soon on FB. We left Sunday after church to head to Waco Texas for our Youth Conference. That was a wonderful week of activity and Services with Godly Men. We had quite a few teenagers get saved and make decisions to serve the Lord more. We had a greatest time there. it is one of the best weeks of the year! Now I am up todate I think! oh wait! We have orders to Fort Polk, LA We report before Oct. 1st. and We are Praying Hayden will be with us for good. Hayden has made the decision to come live with us full time, please pray that his mother allows this to go through without going to court. Well I believe we are caught up now. Asher is one and very full of himself! Adina is a stinker and such fun to interact with! Ananiah has glasses now and is so smart! Hayden is turning into such a young man is scaries me! His voice has changed, and he is taller then me. He is very smart and I hope one day he will use his full potential. I love my children more then life and am so proud of them! My husband is a wonderful man and I love him very much!

Yes I am a slacker!

Ok so Facebook has all my attention! I have been really busy! Let's see where we left off it was beginning of April! Lots has happened since then and it is late, I don't remember it all! I will update this blog soon! I know the newest news is we are moving coming end of Sept. WE have a report date of 1 Oct. to Fot Polk Louisiana. To all those who think it will be bad please keep all neg. thougths and comments to your self please! We are trying to be positive about this move! It will be very hard to leave Texas! This is the only places our Children have known. We moved here when Ananiah was only 9 mths old, the other two were born here. This is the only house they remember as well as the only Church family they remember! So it will be very hard transition for them and Us. Please pray for us as we prepare to move! We want our house to sell soon. Thank you to all those who will pray for us! I will fill in the last three months soon!

Ok here is the month of March and beginning of April catchup~!! Well I guess you guys know I am not much for spelling and at times my fingers get ahead of my brain so forgive me when there are silly type-o's! Well Lets see where to start! Might as well start with filling everyone in on Shannon and my Nephew Ezra! Well Shannon got Prego a while back and had Ezra on the 22nd of Jan. He was a wapping 5 pounds and 5 ozs. So tiny but so darling! When we got home that is the first thing the girls wanted to see was their cousin Ezra! They came over for a while and we all got to hold him! He looks so little but man can he scream! Lol! I will be updating info on him as well here because as most of you guys know the more babies I can get my hands on the better and happier I am! I love Children and some people even call the me the crazy kid lady! I love having more children over here then most people can stand to be around! I would take a few home with me on Wed. nights or when ever they want to come! I babysit as many as I can handle! Anyway on to Ezra! well he is two months old now and he is living here with us so it is fun to have him around Ananiah loves holding him and helping Aunt Shannon with him whenever she lets her! The girls love Aunt Shannon and love to be around her! She is nervous and hovers when I take Ezra away from her! I have to or she will never let me hold him! She is stingy with him! She is turning out to be a rather good mommy! We are very thankful for that and that she is doing so much better! some of you know the whole story, for those of you who don't very long very complicated! Any how! Adina is as always my stinker! she is doing well from her surgery and never really talks about it! It is almost like it never happened, unless you try to touch her scars! Which I only do when I wash her! She is extremely active and never seems to fear much when it comes to playing. However she fears things on TV like the bad guys in a cartoon! She always comes running to find me and hides behind me when the scary parts come on or the bad guys are talking in the movies! Most of you know we monitor what they watch very closely and they never watch anything scary so it is quite funny when she watches things like the Fox and the Hound. She runs when they chase the fox and runs when the old man is mad and runs when they are arguing! She is quite the little chicken when it comes to movies! She loves Strawberry shortcake movies and they do not have bad guys most of the time! I thought that is what we were going to do again for her birthday but she chose Littlest Pet Shops this year and it was a hit! She loves her new pet shop toys! She plays rather nicely alone in there with them! Ananiah however is a carbon copy of her father and is never still, never wants to stay home, and is always Talking (yes I know she got that from both sides! LOL!) She is very bossy these days and always wants to go somewhere or have someone over to our house! She would invite the Church over everyday if she could! I have to admit I love company as well! So I guess she gets it double! Ananiah is very helpful and sweet natured most of the time. Both girls love school and are learning well!(when we get around to doing it) Admittedly we have not been regular in our school time! Which I am trying hard to get better on! Well Asher still has double ear infections and is on stronger meds. So we will see! He is very fast crawling and he is also trying to walk! He stands up by himself and he has great balance! He stands up well and with out holding onto anything now! Any day now he will just take that first step! Yes I know he is too young for it at only 9 1/2 months walking should be farther off but I fear he is going to be faster then his sisters! He is already saying Hunter, Dada, Momma (only sparingly though) Dina and Niah, He also says All done and he has a deep growl when he does not get his way! He does bite sometimes which is mostly me on the receiving end! I have weened him mostly he has only nursed once in four days which is pretty good. That might be the cause of his biting! He is not happy about it! I nursed both girls until their first birthday but Asher has more teeth and is seemly a bit meaner then they were! Well I have done allot today I will try to get on here and update you on their Easter and the rest of the month soon! Please keep John and all the other soldiers in your prayers!

March

Well the end of march is coming fast and there have been so many changes! I have not really had time to get on here and write anything! I am struggling to remember everything that has happened since we came home! Well in the last post I mentioned Ashers fevers! He had them for going on three weeks! I took him to the Doctor many times and to no avail there seemed to be no other symptoms? He is much better now! We found out he has double ear infections and thrush! Fun stuff! Our regular doctor found some white stuff growing in his throat and it seems to be why he was not eating very much for some time! Well he is getting bigger fast now he is back to eating everything! He now has five teeth! The upper three came in only a few days apart! With being sick having three teeth come in and ear infections he was not a happy camper! He seems to be getting back to normal now! I am trying to ween him now and he is not happy about that but so many teeth and he is quite strong willed, which is becoming apparent. Well Now on to his sisters! They love to make Asher laugh and they have a tendancy to be a bit rough with him, but the louder and rougher they are the funnier he seems to think it is! Adina is three now she just had her birthday and she is growing so fast! She is counting to 12 well and knows all her colors and her letters. She follows Ananiah around and they play so well together! They like to have their friends over so at any given time I have one or two extra kids running around! Wed. night I had five little girls here and two baby boys. Asher is much bigger then his cousin Ezra but they are both sooo cute! Well it is bed time now an dI will try to update you more on the whole clan! We miss the two big kids since we did not get to see them this spring break but I guess we will have to wait until summer! Teenagers now and too busy for us! LOL! Oh well keep Hayden in yoru prayers he busted his head open again! not the first time and I am sure not the last he is fine not even enough of a cut for more then two staples! Ananiah is singing everything and even learning new sons everyday! She loves to sing all the time! The MP3 players they got for Christmas are getting good use!

Feb. 2009

Hello all well I am being lazy and I have not updated this thing in a while! so here goes! We are all getting over some sort of flu bug! Asher has had a temp. for a week now off and on! Last night was the worst and I hope the last of it! I fear he is getting lost more teeth and that is why his temperature was so high! 102 orally. He has been fussy for a while now since we got home and that is just not him! I know the travel mixed him up but I think it is more his teeth than anything! he got the first two a few days apart so the rest might come in twos as well!
Ananiah is starting school on Monday! we were going to start on Thursday of this past week but MOMMY ordered the wrong teaching manuals!! She is in K5 and I ordered K4 teaching manual but K5 child kit from Abeka! Well I reordered the right ones and they should be here by Monday! Fun!! She is still going all the time and always wants people to come over or go over there! Just like her daddy! She is very active and always (yes i do mean always) busy! even in her sleep!
If you have read my facebook you know Adina is due for surgery on the fourth of March. She has what is called a inguinal hernia which is to be repaired by surgery! It is very scary to think about it, however I know the Lord is in control and watching over my baby(s)! I posted a link to some information on my FB. We are dealing with it ok! I just found out yesterday so give me some time! I am trying not to worry or stress out! So pray for us! LOL Well things here are going well! it is nice to be home and I am working on getting the house up to speed to sell it! We got new ceiling fans put up in the living room! and they match! LOL we had two in there but they did not match at all! It looks so much better! The story is funny how I cam got these two ceiling fans but I will relate that another day! anyhow I am doing as well as can be expected in all the craziness! LOL Well the little ones are up and I need to make WAFFLES! Again Please pray for our Adina and my sanity!