Girly Things

December 18th 2003 I had this beutifull baby, to be honest, when I had her maybe its because I had a C-Section, I was sure I would never love her as much as my first baby JJ. I told everyone JJ could not ever be replaced….HE CAN’T!!! I just did’nt realize that mommies work this way. I have only and will only have 2 children, I loved my first one more than my heart seemed to be able to hold. How could I possibly have room for another child in my heart? Oh let me tell you, in the last year this girl has squeezed her way (okay I guess I had room for her) I am so blessed I can’t believe how much these children mean to me.

JJ my BABY (yeah yeah, my first okay?) Sweet boy who spends time with his sister every day…..let me just go back a bit….

JJ 2 years old starts asking for a sister…..JJ 3, 3 1/2, 3 and 3 and 3/4 asking for “baby sister” for all the time….
JJ turns 4 starts asking every week or so…..
JJ turns 5 and its EVERY DAY OR MORE!!!!!!

What do you do, as a parent? Do you not try to grant all possible wishes for your kids? I told JJ to pray….Pray and ask God for your sister……
well lets just say, God provided both times my babies have been prayed for and Chris and I have never had a problem with conceiving…..he got his wish almost momentarily ….(Thank you God.)

Then he has his baby sister…
He absolutly adores her. I can’t ask for a better big brother, he is so helpful and plays with her all the time.

So here we are her first, year gone by so fast she has captured hearts of people who know her, she has a sweet disposition and the rythym of a dancer or singer we have been working on that since she was born (mommy was a dancer at 3 and drummer at 12 music is in my blood and we all know about the Gentry’s they can pick up any instrument and play it in two seconds…(that is Chris’s blood if you all are wondering)

So here she is….Lanie at 1 we celebrated her birthday 1 week early because we needed daddy there but this is her birthday party. We had such a great time….Diva insisted on eating her cake with a spoon instead of getting her hands dirty….(typical diva).

We have enjoyed her first year and look forward to many more….may God bless her journey thru life and bless her for all her years….

We love you Lanie, Happy Birthday to my baby Diva! I can’t believe how fast this first year with you has went…You are a lovely sweet beutiful angel. Thank you for filling our lives with love again, We love you!

This is my friend Jen and of course Lanie and her bestfriend Isaiah. He is 2 months younger than her they are hillarious to watch, Lanie just beats up on the poor boy and HE LETS HER!!!! Then when Jen is holding Isaiah Lanie gets jealous and has to be on her lap too. When Jen leaves Lanie cries and waves bye bye to ME like shes going to go with Jen…

isn’t she beautiful O
Of course Lanie has cought her heart, She made the most adorable princess cake for her party (actually 2 she made her her very own!!)

Thank you Jen, you make gorgous cakes, and we thank you for creating memories for us…..

I’ll write more on her birthday as soon as I can figure out my new camera….promise, Daddy will be nagging from work if I don’t Love you honey bear!

JJ and I had a lovely evening, he and I watched a Christmas special and had talks about Jesus our savior tonight. I feel so privialaged to have the opportunity to teach a young child about our savior. Nothing gets me more than music of the season, my favorites “little drummer boy” and “oh Holy night”….I am in tears tonight listening to these songs. I try to share memories with my son, so he can make his own memories… I have a tremendous fear, that I will not do this season justice. I try so hard to share pasts of my own so he can have a memory to hold onto….talking to my brother last night, I realize how important memories are, how do we create these for our children? Hopefully tonight my son seeing his mommy in tears for beutiful classic Chrismas songs will be a start. I have such a love of this time of year and want to share with everyone.

Most of our family is in Washington, so we miss them dreadfully at Chrismas time, the memories that my brother and I have seem so long ago…How wonderful to have such a large family get together at Christmas time, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents……..Here in Alaska we dont have that, (uncle reck sorry to single you out…..love you so much but where are my neices and nephews????!!!!!!) where are the cousins for my boy and girl to know???? where is Kirsten, Brandon, Kurt, Michelle, Emily and Scotty, Derek and Deanna in the holliday mix? What fun we had at Christmas time at Nanny and Poppas house……I only want my children to have such great memories.

Anyway, so sorry, I just rambled way to much…..we had a lovely evening other than that I cried tonight because we were watching a Christmas special without daddy and we missed him alot…..JJ held me close and was reluctant to go to bed because I was sad….we just miss him when he is gone and especially during the holidays, we feel a great loss that daddy is away making sure we have a lovely house and food to eat…..we appreciate him more than he knows.

sorry all, my husband who we miss terribly needs to see his kids while he is away at work so must all reading this…. Diva knows the reason for a brush now….(finally getting about 1/2 inch of hair almost a year old…so not fair) here she is combing “pretty baby’s hair”.

JJ with his beloved pet “JJ JR” the hampster….hes doing so well with him, holds him every day and makes sure he has food and water, funny he ignored his dog and took him 6 days to notice his dog was gone but anyway another story, mabe hes a rodent friend???? no clue…..

Love you Daddy, thank you for working so hard for us…..we miss you…..

Anna, JJ and Diva