More Thanksgiving Pictures

Kylee and Garyson Mcmanus
Grandma Linda eating with the grandkids in our new familyroom.
Nap time Br.Marshall McManus.
Br.Mark McManus ,Tyrel and Br.Matt with no head.
Anthony with the mohak,Christian in the middle and our boy Dale .Christian is 4 1/2 months younger than Dale but about a head taller than him.

Some Thanksgiving pictures

I am just going to post a few pictures from Thanksgiving ,mostly of people sitting around
3 of the cousins that are 15 1/2 hanging out.
Looks like Br.Marshall is ready to eat.
Br.Mark and Sis.Kim ,Kylee and Br.Brian
.Garyson,Br.Matt,Sis.Tisha and Sis.Connie .Myla,Bailey,Ruby,MacKenzie,Teah,Cassidy,and Melissa with Grandma Linda.

Kitchen floors done!!!!

Yeah the kitchen floors are pretty much done!The hardwood is beautiful.

Hardwood Floor in the Kitchen

During Thanksgiving weekend my brother Matt helped Brian put in hardwood floor in our kitchen and hall way that goes to new addition.Heres some pictures of them working.As soon as it is finished I will get more pictures on here.

Getting some work done

The hole we cut in our old laundryroom to go out to the new familyroom and addition.
Brian working on putting up sheetrock in familyroom.

The new laundryroom ,you can see the dryer in there.The plug for washer not moved yet.
The entrance to Elise and MacKenzie's room.

More Picture Collages

Family Pictures

Family Pictures .......Brian hates this time of year ,when we go get everyones pictures taken .He decided this year was our turn to be in them too.So here are the 2 family colages that we picked out .I will post the other pictures when I get them.

Time to take pictures!

Elise 15 1/2
Tyrel 13 1/2
Myla 8
Dale 6

It's the time of year that we go do that thing called get everyones pictures done.So here are the colages that I have done and the new pictures of the kids by their self are on the side line to the left here.I have not got MacKenzie or Melissa's pictures back yet so I will post them as soon as I get them.

A Little Sad this week.

We have always tried to not get very involved with our neighbors or Friends from school.But about a year ago we had some new neighbors.They have girls Melissa and Myla age and a boy a year younger than Tyrel.We live quite a ways out of town and not many kids around here.So we started letting our kids play with them and have them to our house and go to their house.Then we got to know their family a little.The mother was due to have a baby last may.The doctors told them the baby girl had heart problems and also a chromosomes 18 disorder and she could be severely handicapped if she lived.They mad the decision to have her anyway instead of terminating the pregancy When she was born she weighed 4 1/2 pounds at full birth ,not early.The doctors let them bring her home because her life expectancy was 6 months-to a year -if that.So at 1 week she came home.she was on a monitor and took special bottles to feed her because her stomach was so small she could not digest good.Then when she was 3 moths old the doctors felt she was ready for her first of 6 heart surgeries.So they headed to Portland on July 31st,her surgery was for August 3rd.



On the way to Portland their family was hit head on by another driver that was hit broadsided.The family was all taken to the hospital.The boy had a hurt hand and bruised,The girl Myla's age had a cut across her forhead.The girl Melissa's age had to get a rod put in her upper leg that will have to stay there for a year.The mother crushed her foot and broke the bones in her lower leg and had a cast all the way up her leg.And was not to be on it for 6 months.The baby was life flighted and it sent her into a heart attack.They didn't know her problems until the mother was able to tell them after they arrived at the hospital.The father was not with them in the accident for he was supposed to go to Portland the next day.



So they were all over in Portland in 2 different hospitals .The 3 older kids were releast to their dad after 3 days ,mother stayed in hospital for 2 weeks .The baby whos name is Sage was finaliy taken in for heart surgery on August 15th .She came thru as they said doing very good.At this point she weights 5 3/4 pounds .They bring her home a week later. She seems to be doing good but not gaining weight as fast as the doctors want her to so the go back to Portland and get a feeding tube put in to her tummy.She comes back home and she is now 5 month old and weights about 7 1/4 pounds.She is home a few days and starts having breathing problems at night,so the doctors send them home with a monithor and oxegen ,she is hooked up to all this at night or any time she is having breathing trouble.She seemed to be doing good ,starting to gain weight and she would even smile sometimes when you talked to her and she loved being held and rocked .This is something I did many a time when I was down visting them. After the accident their insurance asked them to find someone to hepl the mother with house hold stuff that she should not be doing becuase of her leg.So I had been going over to their home during the week for about 3 hours a day ,and the insurance was paying me .Which is another reason we were getting to know this family so much.



Then this sunday evening she was asleep in her bed(which is right in the living room where everyone is at). When her big brother named Zane who is only 12 goes to check on her .Her lips have turned brown and he tells his mom something is wrong with baby Sage.The mother Pauline trys to revive her ,the kids run out side to get their dad ,he trys to revive her ,they can't.They call 911.She had not been having any trouble that day so they had not put her on the monitor yet.It must have just been her time to go.



Brian saw the ambulance go by and came in and got me .We walked down to see what was going on,not knowing.And Elise followed us down there.The family was crying and screaming .It was the saddest thing I have ever saw .We tried to comfort them ,The dads parents were there and the medical people .We stayed for about an hour and I think it was one of the most hardest emotional things I have had to deal with .The family was just so tore up .They wanted me to help them get the baby ready for the mortition to pick-up.They felt like I have been one of their very dear friends and wanted me to stay and be there with them.We picked out a soft burgendy dress to put on her while we cried .She had a soft pink fuzzy blankie from the Ronold Mcdonld House they stayed at in Portland that we rapped her in she looked so peaceful.


We came home from their house and tried to tell our kids what happened .The little girls were very upset and sad .Elise was cring she had baby sat Sage all day on this last thursady and she had watched her several other times during the summer.Our children have never been around death ,they have been to funreals .But so far no one close to them has died and they have definitly never been where it has just happened like this.( think I probly should have sent her home when we found out she was there it was a very sad time there.)I pray that she will be able to get over it okay ,and not remember it as a bad thing.
They are planning a funeral for sage on friday .We plan to go to it and hope that it will bring closing for them.The school that our kids go to is very small and the staff and teachers have all been very good to this family teachers have had kids make cards .The principle is friends with thier family becuase her husband does rodeoing and so does the dad in this family she has came out to the home as has one of the girls teachers with flowers and cards from the staff.picture of Sage when she was 4 months old in her sisters doll playpen.

Spaggetti Night

Well tonight was what I like to call the back up dinner plan...Spaghetti .We all love spaghetti.We were all fixing our plates and starting to eat when Dale says"Does anyone know why I'm not eating?"

So we all say "No ,Why aren't you eating?"

Dale says "Acause no one got me my cheese!"

We give him the zip lock baggie of cheese and go back to what we are all doing.Next thing we know Dad looks at Dale's plate and he has almost the whole baggie of cheese on top of his spaghetti.Mom had to get pictures....(of course dad told him he had to eat all of it.)

New adopted Niece Madeline (Maddie).

Maddie in the grass

Mike,Kimberly,Maddie and Jesse standing in back. Maddie


Most all of you know my brother Micheal McManus.And most of you know that things did not work out for him and his first wife Michele Channel ,and they devoriced.Well he remarried and his new wife is real nice her name is Kimberly.They live over by JohnDay Oregon.They just adopted a little baby girl that is 9 months old her name is Madeline and they call her Maddie.


Tyrel had a football game over at alittle town by John Day so I drove over for the day to see them .Maddie is a real cute ,happy baby.She loves blankies that are soft ...you give her one and she just snuggles .She patty cakes ..She has the cutest little fat feet that Kimberly can't get shoes on them,and yesterday the weather was so nice she was with out socks and her mommy painted he nails pink.They were so cute.So here are a few of the pictures I got of her.They weren't that great cause we were at football game.

Tyrel plays football

Well this year Tyrel decided to play football.He is on the Culver Middle School team,it is 6th,7th and 8th graders.He is really enjoying it .I think he likes the social part of gettingto stay after school and hang out with friends as much as he likes the game.They have played 3 games so far and have won all of them.He is number 30 .Here is some pictures.

Boys room pictures and destruction!

Well last wednesday I decided to finish my boys' room .I had already painted it blue on top and red on bottom.So I just needed to put the border trim up between the two colors.Here are the pictures of the room done.It took me about two hours to put this up .When Dale got home from school he decided it needed something more.Look close at some of these pictures .....he has autographed them.