DNA on Ancestry

I have gotten into this DNA stuff on Ancestry. I never knew who my bio father was but I thought maybe I could find something. Of course there was several distant cousins. I was able to link a few people to my family tree. But nothing rock solid had appeared.  And today I get a message from Ginger who said we were a close match. I open my ancestry page to see that we share almost 2000cm's. Ginger just found a half sister!  She is missing a full blood sister named Patty. Patty was 2 or 3 years old when she was put up for adoption. Ginger was hoping I was Patty but I was 100% sure I wasn't. My family tree connects to my mom's line perfectly.  Ginger and I share the same father. Ginger is the oldest.  Patty is a year older than am. We will keep looking and maybe she will find us.

Impact Awards

Theme for this year is: Western

Every year we celebrate our teams at church

We have a themed party and we just have a whole lot of fun!

Dressing up makes everything much more fun.
I made mine and Sydney's skirts.  

                                      

  Me, Kelsey, Annie and Kendall                                                  Sydney and I 

                                                      

                 Kelsey and I

                                        YPC Staff

The Wedding

Tashauna and Kevin 

got married on New Year's Eve.  John finally got to walk his daughter down the isle... or the sidewalk in this case.  

 

Happy Birth Day to Kassidy Grace

Welcome to the World 

Kassidy Grace

She is Beautiful!!!

We're in Labor

We're in Labor!  Tashauna went through this labor without an epidural.  Did she scream... yup!  But she managed to get through this without all those drugs. It was a family affair, Sydney, Jenny and Myself got to be there for the birth of baby Kassidy.  

The Baby Shower

At the Baby Shower, Tashauna and Kevin had put together a photography slideshow of her pregnancy, I knew ALL of the photos because I had taken all of them.  And this one showed up in black and white, I said "I didn't take that photo" and the next photo was this one in color with the pink ribbon. 

  IT'S A GIRL!!!

Maternity Shoot #1

One of Tashauna's Maternity Shoots.

And she still won't tell me what the gender of this baby is....

Hip Replacement

After all these years of waiting, John finally gets that hip replacement.  I have never seen him stand so straight or sit up straight.  And no more pain!!

Christmas Day

Christmas was so much fun this year.  No one was in a hurry to go somewhere.  I cooked a turkey with several fixins and we chowed down before opening presents.  

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was really warm so I had the kids bundle up in their coats and I got some fake snow so we just pretended it was snowing!  We really wanted a white Christmas but we didn't get it.