Happy birthday Alayah

Happy Birthday Alayah ~ Luau Style


We all had such a great time and the weather could not have been better. There were about 20 kids and 20 adults. WOW, Alayah could not have been happier.

Love to all,

Sheila

Isaiah, Jacob & Alayah
February 2006

(Can you believe I got them all smiling?)

March 2006 Update

Wow how time flies. My last post was in November 2005 and I am sure you all have stopped even checking our blogg by nevertheless, I wanted to say hello.

We are all doing great. Alayah is doing well in school and is learning to read more. Jacob is our little athlete and he loves to play duck-duck-goose even if it's by himself. Isaiah continues to amaze us as he has memorized the US map by state and is working on the capitols. He also has a new obsession with numbers. He found my tape measure the other day and loves to count the centimeters (to 155).

Frank's job continues to take him to new and exciting places. So far he has been to Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Colorado, Delaware, Tennessee, Pennselvania, Delaware, Maryland, Maine, Kentucky, Ohio and Illinios. (I may have forgotten some??) He is heading to New Jersey Next. Too bad he does not get any spare time to enjoy these travels but at least he can say he has been there.

By the way, I am not sure who you are Dr. Expert (I think I have a good idea) but Alayah presented her Flat Stanley project to her class last week and everyone was amazed at how many places he traveled to. I think he made it to six or seven states in all. Unfortunately all of the pics are on Frank's computer at work so I cannot share them here.

Thanks again to all of you who check our blogg and think of us. Here are a few prayer requests for our family:

• Frank's safety during his travels
• My sanity raising the kids especially when Frank is gone
• Wisdom and guidance for Isaiah and Jacob's speciall needs issues

Love to all,

Sheila

WOW, has it really been 3 months??

A Busy Day Comes To An End
Sorry for not keeping up-to-date everyone. For those of you who know that Frank started his new job, things went very well for his first trip. He went to Louisiana and then to Virginia. We missed him so much as he was gone 14 days but he got home last night and we are so excited to have him back.

The kids are doing GREAT. Alayah is growing to be such a sweet (but sassy) little girl. She lost her 5th tooth on saturday and then lost two more today. Tooth Fairy is going broke about now!!

Jacob is doing good and is working real hard on his speech. It is amazing that the boys are almost four. Isaiah is doing so well that during his annual IFSP review for his school, they had to update ALL of his goals since he had met almost all of them over the past year. GREAT!!!

For those who check my blog, thanks for thinking of us and for your prayers. You all mean the world to us.

Love,
Sheila

My Girls!

Aren't my little girls so beautiful!! LeAnna is truly an angel and Alayah is my little princess. LeAnna and Gene will be coming up in "ten more sleeps". We are so excited!!

Take care my friends,

sheila

Okay, so I haven't posted in a while.........

Teresa, this one's for you! Just to say I have updated. (ha-ha)! It was great to visit you and meet Joe this weekend. Can't wait to do it again. It looks like the others want to get together before the holidays???? Okay by me!!

Later,
sheila

PS Here is your "frustrated" PEC (picture exchange communicator)

A Day at the Zoo

Jacob and Sheila

Alayah and Gene 

Frank and LeAnna 

Isaiah 

The kids - Summer 2003 

Meet the Woodley's

Were do I begin? As you can see we are a large family. Frank and I met in 1996. He has two children from a previous marriage - LeAnna was almost 6 and Gene was almost 3. We were married in 1997 and relocated to the Portland area. We had Alayah in 1999 and completed our family when the twins (Jacob and Isaiah) were born in 2002.

I will introduce each member of our family in separate postings.

I guess this is a good start???