The Move

Petra, Ed and the kids moved in with us again, yes again, this has happened before. We have had most of our kids move in and out of our house at various times. You would think we had a big/nice house, but no we are just very good at rearranging things to get all of them to fit. We love having them come and get to see them day to day.

Eddie's Dad "Big Ed" was there to help contain Alyssa, Big Ed had a heart attack just a couple of weeks before the move, so he wasn't helping too much in the actual moving, he was a great help with the crazy girl. We wouldn't let Jeff come help at all, we wanted his neck to heal without any new injuries.
Hans and Alleya (Ed's sister) were making sure nothing moved in the truck. Most of this is going to storage until they buy a house.
It was so nice to have both of my boys there to help with the move. Hans is always up early and ready to go, he was the first one there to help.

Ross is always ready to help later, so it worked out. Ed's brother Danny was there also, and his girlfriend Brittney came the night before and was a packing machine! That girl can move!!
Ed's friends Phyllis and Tim came also. Just a note, look in the picture above, they didn't' want to take the crib apart, so they took the door off, but notice Ross is unscrewing the crib, so, yes they had to take the whole thing apart and then get the door back on.
All in all the move was not so back, we are still trying to get our house in some kind of order, but we have the cute kids here to make us laugh and Petra does most of the cooking. Ed has already installed a 46 inch flat screen in the family room and put new handles on all the drawers in the kitchen.

Jeff's Birthday

This is Jeff coming into his surprise party.

We had told him we were going to dinner for Big Ed's birthday. (Big Ed is Petra's husband's Eddie's Father, he is not bigger than Eddie but still Big Ed) He was so surprised to see Kathy and John Wolford there? It took him a while but he finally figured it out.

John had bought a birthday card for Jeff that kept the whole crowd laughing.

Liz played with the kids

He had lots of help from the grand kids, Issac, Alyssa, Isiah, Jenni, CJ with blowing out the candles.


He was so excited all the grandkids could be there, even Christopher. Chris was not even a week old yet!
So there is Petra holding Christopher, Jeff holding Issac, Isiah Jenni holding violet and CJ holding Alyssa. As you can tell Alyssa didn't take kindly to being held. She is a BIG girl!



Jeff enjoyed all the people that came, I so wish we would have thought thru the pictures that were being taken. Randi was trying her best to get everyone, but not everyone got in the pictures.

Here is proof I was there.

Petra really worked hard on this event. Grandma Roskelley was there and Shelli and Katie, Petra, Eddie, CJ, Alyssa, Christopher,Randi, Efrain, Jenni, Isiah, Issac, Ross, Liz Violet, Big Ed and Allya (sp?) Kathy and John Wolford, Judy and Dennis Stohl. We wanted to keep is somewhat small but still have fun for him.
Hans couldn't get out of work and Allie is away at school. He was happy to have at least 4 of his kids there. I am sad we didn't include the in-law kids, those are our kids also!!