Christine Howard, WOW! I could tell you so many stories, and so many others could too, but I know it would be too lengthy. Stories of how she loved and encouraged and FED, all the friends of her 12 children. Phenomenal is a pretty good description of Christine, because I know no other like her. I truly don't know how she did it and stayed so positive throughout. As a child you don't realize how times can be rough, but after growing older I thought back in awe at how she took care of us all. She was always so supportive of us all, but would tell us how it was if we were in the wrong.

 

I've known her for 44 yrs now, and her baby daughter is the love of my life. I owe her so much, I could never repay it, I can only do my best and try.

 

I wish I was setting in her living room enjoying a cup of coffee with her, talking about old times, right now. We have a lot of great memories. That I'm very proud of!

 

Jake's friend,

 

Paul Freeman

 

New Photo Gallery of some of us at her 81st Birthday, enjoy!!

As hard as I try to keep up this blog, I just seem to get busy and not find time. I know it's just an issue of time managment and having it somewhere on the days schedule. Maybe that's the real problem, lol. I'm going to continue to try though. I'd like for this the be where friends and family can kind of find out the latest that is going on with our family in general.

 

Therefore, this weekend we have a fun filled weekend planned, the boys will be coming in for Memorial Day weekend. That means the competiion will begin anew. The latest is the girls against the boys in Rock Band, the Boys won the first round, but the girls found out they used some unthought of before teamwork and cried foul, basically Jake did the drum foot pedal while singing the vocals, lol. So the girls cried foul.

 

We have the pool up and filling with water as we speak, but I bet it'll still be cold by this weekend, some of the girls say, they don't care, jumping in any way. lol.

 

We've been trying out a new PC game (Team Fortress 2), it's fast paced and a little hard to figure out the strategy so far, but just another game we can play together online. It has a comic humor side to it that's different for sure.