What's Going On Lately

The Rozema family could really use your prayers as we deal with a situation we've never had to face before. One full of hurt and disappointment. Nothing is wrong with any member of our family other than our hearts are hurt. Only Zach is oblivious to what is going on. Even poor Loren is effected in this situation and her heart is broken . . . that's hard for Mommy and Daddy to deal with ON TOP OF the other stuff. . .poor girl.

So anyway, just keep us in your prayers as we try to do God's will in everything.

My Famous Family Again!

I'm so jealous of this, I can't even stand it! Kris went to pick mom up at the airport and look who they found!



He had mom doing Jumping-Jacks with him to "Get our heart rate's up after a long flight." They were in the elevator together and he kept snuggling mom saying, "Isn't this fun!!" so they could get more people on the elevator!

Sometimes life isn't fair. This was one of these moments! I wanted to meet Richard tooooooooo! Waaaaa

Calvin's Shout Out to Mike

Hilarious! If you get the Calvin Engineering news, their #1 "Employed to. . ." is Boeing Co.

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Mike's the only Calvin Alum there . . .

haaaaa!

I'M SO LIVID!

Loren, Zach and I went to Mid Rivers Mall and my children were playing on the indoor playground. It's all of this rubberized waist-high toys. There is a giant turtle in the middle. Well Loren was sitting behind a girl on the turtle and they were playing so sweet. The girl in front called to her sister to come join them. The sister came over (3 or 4 years old) and Loren helped her up. The sister was now in front of Loren. That little jerk turned around and with two hands shoved poor Loren right off the back of the turtle. I was across the way and said, "Oh my gosh and put down my coffee to go get Loren." I looked at that little _______'s mother to see if she was going to go discipline the turd and she was just looking over there watching them complacently. I know she saw what that monster did. Well, in the meantime, Loren tried to climb back on the turtle and that _______ (insert a choice word) shoved her off the turtle again. THIS TIME THAT MOM SAW AND THAT HORRIBLE EXCUSE FOR A MOTHER DID NOTHING. As I'm now running over there that Loren is sobbing and shaking and telling the girl, "Don't hit me, please don't hit me." I picked up my angel as that girl started to swipe at her. . .BTW THE MOM GOT A LOOK AT THE MURDEROUS LOOK ON MY FACE AND FINALLY GOT OFF HER WHITE TRASH BUTT AND STARTED COMING OVER. I grabbed the monster's hand mid-swipe and yelled very fiercely, "DON'T YOU EVER HIT MY DAUGHTER AGAIN. I WON'T LET ANYONE HURT MY CHILDREN, NOT EVEN YOU." I turned and glared at the mother daring her to say a word to me.

Now look, I know kids act that way. That's just life. . .what I will NOT accept is a mother who won't discipline a child. A mother who just stands by as her little _________ hurts another child. U-N-A-C-C-E-P-T-A-B-L-E! I mean, Zach is a hitter and the minute he hits, I'm on his butt like white-on-rice because my children will learn hitting is not okay.

IF YOU CAN'T TELL, I'M SO LIVID I COULD SPIT. Gosh I wish that woman would have said something because I would have let it ALLLLLL out!!

BE A PARENT OR I WILL.

Valentines Day Progressive Dinner

This year for Valentines Day Mike and I hosted the appetizers section of a Progressive Dinner. It was a blast! In all, there were 30 people! It was so much fun! One couple even got engaged in our living room. We played a few games where I learned a LOT about my friends and parents! For instance, one of my good friends who is the sweetest thing participated in an Iron Butt competition.

I won the game where we were given a phrase and we had to use it in conversation. If you got caught, you were out. My Phrase was "I think I'm getting shorter." I said it 25 times without getting caught. I went around and took pictures and said, "I think I'm getting shorter" as I squatted down to get the picture. When the night was over, everyone was like, "NO WAY YOU SAID YOUR PHRASE 25 TIMES!" When I revealed my phrase, everyone gave me a Standing Ovation!!!

Kitchen before

OH, if you can zoom in, please take a look at that hideous light above the island. Have you ever seen anything so ugly? The FIRST THING I made mike do when we moved in was to put a fan up in the kitchen for me. I was 20 weeks preggo with Zachy and I could NOT cook in a kitchen in St. Louis in Summer without a fan!! Anyway, I should have kept that fan so I could enter it into the "World's Ugliest Light Contest." Ash wood. . .gross.

Kitchen in 1/2-way mode! YIPEE!

Phase 2 will not be completed until we can afford new counters and tiles!

I wanna be like Mike

Everything Daddy does I can do better!

I'm not a super hero

I'm frustrated that I can't get everything done. My 12 loads of laundry have not disappeared. The cleaning fairy has not shown up either. Whoever is hogging the cleaning fairy, you need to give her up and send her my way!

25 Random Things

1. I would have been named Kevin or Keith if I were a boy.

2. I adore antiques. I spend hours at the 2 antique malls in St. Louis.

3. I adore antique aprons! I have a small collection of them that I use daily **Hint hint if you see any good ones! **

4. Stick me in a pit of snakes over putting me on an airplane. I HATE, LOATHE, DESPISE, and ABOMINATE airplanes.

5. I have no middle name.

6. I always sneeze 2 times.

7. I pee when I laugh too hard. This even happened before I gave birth to my 8+ pound babies!

8. I loved having my dad teach at the school I went to! It had some PERKS! Like. . ."Oh I'm late. . .Daddy, can I have a hall pass?"

9. I have 12 high-school all-conference awards for 2 sports.

10. I had a 20/20/20 basketball game in college. . .20 points, 20 rebounds and 20 steals.

11. I am a pen thief. I steal pens. I try not to. They call my name and I have to have them.

12. I love to mow the lawn! I won't let Mike do it. It's so much fun!

13. When I get old and get Alzheimer, I will revert to High School. I have dreams about random friends in high school all of the time.

14. I was on scholarship and played 2 sports in College my first year (Volleyball and Basketball).

15. I never remember my anniversary right! We were going to be married on Dec. 14th and we had to switch it to 15. So, I always try to celebrate it on the 14th!

16. I don't remember birthDAYS! I never have! I can always remember what month people were born in, just not the day.

17. I'm not easy to surprise. I can usually weasel it out of people or weasel enough hints that I end up guessing the surprise.

18. I associate colors with letters A-Red, B-Blue, C-Yellow, D-Brown. . .I have done this since the first grade!

19. If my health would allow it, I would have been a surrogate mother! I love being pregnant!

20. I buy lipstick and lip gloss all of the time but I never wear it.

21. I cannot wrap presents. I've been banned from ever wrapping. My husband does the wrapping in my family. If he is unavailable, I will take it to a friends house to have them wrap it (Thanks Sheri and Robyn!) or I won't wrap it at all. I swear I try but it always comes out looking like CRAP!

22. I met and fell in love with my husband via a new-fangled thing called e-mail (1997)! Mike was at Calvin in Michigan and I was at Covenant in Georgia. He randomly wrote me one day and we started writing every day for a year! He became my best friend in that one instant! I had the HUGEST crush on him for 4 years. . .come to find out he had just as big of one on me for those 4 years!

23. The first time I saw my husband I knew I would marry him one day! About 5 years later I did!

24. Mike and I only dated officially for 3.5 months before we were looking at rings. We had been best friends for 5 years though! Oh. . .we did date in secret for a month :) Loooong story!

25. I can't drive. I hit everything. I've hit my garage countless times, I've lost hubcaps, I always hit curbs. I just can't drive!

I love scrapbooking

What I do when I'm sick :(

My Big Girl

I just signed my 3 year old up for Pre-School next year. . .sniff. . .sniff. . .