Chickens make great pets are not too noisy, don't eat much,and they lay eggs -one each day-
they do cackle pretty loud whilethe are laying the eggs -but not too bad.

Take my picture please!
Milena and Landon

Close-up zipping by Bobby Ginn

While the kids were zipping we were quite chilly, As you can see there was a steady on shore breeze. But the kids having fun kept the moms warm while my teeth chattered

At one of the beaches in Ventura, CA
There is this concrete pirate ship and it has a zip line. The kids loved it.

The very best Mothers Day weekend is the opportunity to play with her grand kids.

Happy Mother´s Day to the most

BEAUTIFUL

mother in the world!!!!

Love you SOOOOOOO much.

Hope you´re having a happy happy day!!

(I´m sure you are since your with your grandkids!)

GREAT POSTS!!!

THANKS!!

Nina and her new husband Mark came by for a visit on 5-1-11. The kids are Sawnna, Drew by Nina and Clayton by Mark. They were very happy as a family and the kids like each other and enjoy each others company. They stayed down at San Mateo Campground. Mark has a real nice full sized 12 ft x 12ft tent so they were very comfortable. It was wonderful to visit with them hope they can stop by often since they live in Las Vegas NV

Bobby planted snap dragons and they are beautiful




Cassy and I are doing the mandatory egg hunt for 2011. I colored them and Marie hide them . Was fun and brought back memories of days gone by when Cassy and I found the ones Virginia hid in San Clemente at the old house and next when we watched Marion,Nathan and Bobby at the old house. Finally when we hid eggs around our own homes and watched our own kids hunt the eggs. Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. Love to all.

Cleaning and painting the new home in Ventura that Bobby and family will call home for the next while.

Another March Birth-day!!

Just popping by to officially announce the arrival of baby #5!

It's a boy!

Mom wanted a pregnancy picture of me. Sunday 6 March I stayed home from church - just being lazy because I was due 8 March. I tried to make myself presentable so that when the family got home from church we could take some pictures. Of course the kids were less than cooperative. Which is why I ended up with more pictures of just me and Patrice and only two of all of us. The kids are all 2 years apart but they are almost all the same heighth.

Pregnancy picture - side view. Like I keep saying, pregnancy at 37 sure isn't pregnancy at 27!

Thibaud Antoine Duffort

Born Sunday 13 March 2011 (at the hospital!!)

Weighed almost 9 lbs.

Measured almost 23 ins.

My first 'at the hospital' picture.

I woke up Sunday morning (13 Mar) knowing that I had had contractions during the night but had luckily been able to sleep through them. Once I got up and started moving around I realized that we'd need to leave for the hospital sooner rather than later. As it was the first time for me to deliver at a hospital, I had this fear of traveling in pain. I wanted to get there before my contractions were too bad. We left about 9:30 - the kids stayed home. The hospital was pretty deserted. We went right in and got settled. My labor progressed normally. Baby #5 arrived just before noon (sounds so quaint doesn't it? wish it were that easy!). A pediatrician had to stop by and check out the baby before we could leave. We got the OK and came home around 2pm. Most women stay in the hospital 5-7 days here so coming home the same day is just unheard of around here. But we were eager to get home and were just waiting around for the pediatrician to show up so we could go!

Welcome home Thibaud Antoine!

All the kids were excited to welcome a baby into our home. We had almost given up hope that the baby would ever come - the last two weeks seemed to take forever and everyone was impatient. Once home, everyone wanted to hold him at once. Poor Guillaume was disappointed that the baby was sleeping and wasn't ready to sit up and play with him yet! But he was happy with the little hands and feet. He's been dying for a baby ever since Perceval got too big. You can't see in any of the pictures but Thibaud has lots of dark hair and we're thinking he may even end up with blue eyes. He looks like Guillaume did but with hair.

Well, Blogger is acting up and won't let me add anymore pictures so I'll finish here.

Things are going along pretty well. Thibaud is a pretty good baby as long as he's well fed and burped. I've found that I just love having a newborn again. Because the kids are older I can spend a little extra time with just the baby - something I haven't really done since having Alienor. Now that Blogger has let me on again (I couldn't post for a long time) I'll try to post a little more regularly.

Much love from the ever growing Duffort family!

Patrice, Jocelyn, Alienor, Guillaume, Margot, Perceval and Thibaud

And a big ALOHA! to Jimmy

Happy Birthday Jeff!!!

February Birthdays in March...

Grandpa Angel turned 88 on the 24th of February.

Julia turned 60 on the 20th of February.

Our cute little BEE

It´s Carnaval time over here (and all over the world) so Cristina, being the cute mom she is, had Daniella all dressed up. .

This picture I just thought was funny...It´s really a picture of Grandpa and others, but it caught me and Daniella in the mirror!!

And my cutie turned 34 on the 26th of February.

It was a nice day with everyone, but we missed having Miriam with us.