WALKING

I know you want to see pics and videos and I promise after Sept. 16th I'll get back to it. As for now, I'm working very hard, and almost done with my paper. I then have to create a powerpoint and defend my research and I'll be done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wanted to let you all know though that Jaren is WALKING. He has been taking one to two steps for about two weeks. Then last Sunday he decided he could walk from the coffee table in the basement to one of his toys across the room.

Then.... This Thursday he decided he wanted to walk from the kitchen to our bedroom. He surprised even himself when he did and and we haven't been able to stop him since. That is all he wants to do. It is the cutest thing ever. Can't wait for him to show off to everybody.

july pics

This is one of the many beautiful rainbows we got to see in July.

This is me enjoying the swing!!!

Me hanging on of the fourth of july at grandma and grandpa mac's I couldn't go outside much because of the flood.

Papa Mac in his front yard, and their street was one of the better ones in Andale.

Aunt Boz and mommy returning from the walk. They went to check out all the flooding in town. They had fun. just don't look at how white mommy's legs are compaired to aunt boz.

explanation

Ok, so I am giving another explanation as to why there are not many posts on here. The internet problem has been kinda fixed and I was all jazzed and ready to post away as there is MUCH to share. He is growing everyday!!!

Today I got my defense of my masters research scheduled and I am not ready for it and it is sooner than I had hoped. I will be defending my research on the 16th of September.

So don't plan on much happening before then.

Saying that after September 16th watch out :)

Wish me well.

internet

Hello everyone,

I wanted to let you know not to loose faith in my postings. I am currently experiencing internet problems for our desktop computer. That is where all the pictures and videos are.

I have some great pictures from our McFadden family vacation to Lake of the Ozarks last weekend and some great videos of Jaren walking. Still not completely by himself, but he is VERY close.

Hopefully the problem will be fixed soon and I can again post pictures and videos.

Anniversary

Today is the anniversary of the day that Jaren was baptised in Christ. It was a beautiful/emotional day and one that I will never forget. I thank the lord everyday for the precious gift he brought to Mark and I.

Some videos

I will start by saying I know the first slide of the slide show talks about photographs and these are all videos. This is my fifth attempt to post these videos so I picked the first slideshow that would fit the whole picture of the video. I do like it though so you may see it in the future, with pictures :) I hope you can finally enjoy these videos as much as I do.

I've logged on now to watch these and make sure they work properly and well, they kinda do. The first time it had the audio of video 2 while have a still shot of of video 1. The next time it stopped one of the videos short of being finished. I used the arrows (spades) to skip from video to video and they all eventually played. These videos are becoming my nightmare. Maybe that is my sign that I should stick to still photography :)

Personalize a slideshow design

name trick

I wanted to share with you all a trick for spelling Jaren's name correctly. As a poor speller myself I surprised myself with choosing Jaren as his name as I could never figure out how to spell the name Jared, Jarod, Jerod, Jarred, ect...

Any way as I have seen many variation of Jaren's name come across my computer and on birthday cards I thought I'd share with you my trick.

Here it is: if you take the J off the front of his name and the N off the end of his name you have a word left over. ARE

J ARE N

So when you are wondering what order the vowels are in his name remember that there is a word in his name.