FLOURISHING TREE BY THE LAKE: July 2010

Monday, July 26, 2010

William's Apron

So i decided to make an apron for my son who likes to imitate everything i do in the kitchen. As much as i want to do things very quickly without a hassel of this kid,i realised this is a learning stage for him.So everything we do, we'd include him in it as long as its no danger to him. But he's preety smart too. He's dad and him were putting together this bookshelf one day thus using a hammer a couple times. Jacob gives him his own toy hammer and nail while he used the real one. William turned to his dad and gave him his toy tools while he picked up the real ones and started hammering. We burst out laughing.
Anyway,so heres his apron made from an old BDU ( his dads old air force uniform). I had difficulties trying to get his measurements so i ended up using Elmo. Yes Elmo the toy :) Basically i just needed his chest and height and i added 2 inches to it. Through the processs of sewing, i reaslised that i had ran out of thread on the bobin. It was late in the night and i had totally forgotten how to thread a bobin. Thanks to Youtube., my memory came back after seeing one of their threading videos.

Dancing with his Apron (We all have our dance moves, The mommy dance, The daddy dance and this is The sonny dance.) A one line song..Go-whoever from us is dancing..in this case was William known as sonny to our families.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Our 4th of July

Just in case you are wondering what 4th of July means, it's America's birthday. On July 4th 1776 , America gained Independence from Britian and democracy was born.

So we celebrated our 4th of July with food, rides and later on fireworks in the evening.

Fireworks

more firworks

William's first car ride

WELCOME AND HOPE THIS PAGE FINDS YOU WELL

We are the Haines Family and are currently stationed in Rheinland Phalz Region - Ramstein Base , Germany under the United States Air Force.

Jacob and Lavenia Haines. Proud Parents of William and Brent and we have a wonderful dog, Sofi.

Jacob is originally from Kentucky, U.S.A and Lavenia is from the Fiji Islands in the Pacific Region.

William and Brent are both born here in Germany.

We have had paperworks to do. There is always a section where it asks for their nationality and we came up with "Gerijicans".( a mixture of the 3)

Ha!Ha! if only there was such word.

The name "Flourishing Tree By The Lake"!!

I had been thinking of making a blog but jst couldn't find a name to define who we were.During our afternoon walks,i would ask Jacob if he had a special name to describe our Family.He came up with an "Adventurous Family" since we are always out doing something as a family..I stood still and said,Honey..that's too general.He replied well that's what i got babe.So that night i stayed up late reading a book called Daily Inspiration by Rick Wareen.What struck me was a picture of a tree on the coverpage.And boom that name just came into my head,"Flourishing Tree By the Lake".I thought of it and it sure was a perfect name.Living lives is just like a tree,when we take good care of it..it blooms out and flourishes but if we don't ,it withers and dies away.Sometimes we fall but that shouldn't be a barrier..stand up, pull yourself together and move forward knowing that you are stronger than that obstacle that you had just faced.Are we perfect,No...because we are just human beings.Do we have the courage and capability to try...Yes.We have come a long way..still striving,still flourishing and will always continue to flourish no matter what the circumstances may be.We remember vivdly when we used to struggle,living paycheck to paycheck..life was hard but it made us appreciate life more which helped improve us to become better people.We had so much faith (still do) in ourselves,in each other and most importantly in God that nothing is impossible.