Happy Mommy's Day

I love you Mom. I am thankful for you. I cherish you. I enjoy you. I am thrilled that Eli gets to have you. I am glad we live so close. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

Bread of Life Rescue Mission

Kris and I, along with some of our close friends have been connected and volunteering at a homeless shelter. We have really felt God's calling on our hearts to serve this people group-and we actually really 'like' being there!
I am heading up a silent auction for Bread of Life Rescue Mission in Oceanside( http://bolrescue.org/) on Thursday May 28th.
I am looking for donation of items or services from any and all aspects.
Do you have an item/business/service, etc... that you would be willing to donate in order to help raise money for the shelter? Any items-small or large, storebought or handmade, etc...Let's get creative!
Do you know of anyone that might be interested? Please send this email on :)
100% of the proceeds from the auction will be given to Bread of Life to help with their day to day operations.
And of course any monetary donations would be appreciated as well!

Thanks for helping us and those less fortunate out!
Kris and Jen Drury
760-727-1265

Mohawk

In the middle of our Community Group (bible study) monday night, Eli disappeared into the bathroom for quite awhile. He emerged like this! There was SO MUCH gel in his hair! haha

Earth Day-yesterday

We made this last year, but thought it would fit with Earth day yesterday. We collected boxes for months! Had alot of help from friends and family too! We hot glued all the boxes together to make this amazing house! Once we got tired of it in that room, I took down 2 walls and put it in Eli's bedroom.

Mad Science Cake

This was lots of fun with all these colors:

Thanks PAPA for Eli's stilts

Thanks for making Eli stilts, Papa and thanks to Miranda for apparently teaching Eli that 'practice makes perfect!' hahaha. The stilts were made from my fondant buckets!

Murray's the BEST dog-EVER

We hosted Van's 1st bday party in our backyard and look at this pic I snapped of our friends The Mudds daughter and Murtah. Good boy Mur!

Working on Van's 1st Bday cake

Grilled Cheese anyone?

Gotcha! All edible cake, except toothpick!

All of the sudden Eli is drawing-REAL pictures

Happy 8th bday Murray

I don't remember life without you...

My Knight in shining armor

Kris doesn't believe me, but

I miss these times. We use to spend alot of time singing and playing music with friends. Kris is teaching our Marine buddy Mike to play. Look at Murray right in the middle!

All the sudden Eli is writing

So it's a Monday night, when we have community group and Eli hangs out upstairs by himself. (remember a few weeks ago he cuts his hair up there?) Ok, so he yelled at me to bring him some paper and crayons and a bit later I went up to check on him and was shocked to see this:

Wedding Cupcakes

160 wedding cupcakes with edible crystallized flowers:

Pooh Cake

Second time around for this cake:

Easter Egg Coloring and Gifts

Kris HATES doing this every year and Eli wanted to do it with his Daddy, not me! haha

Here are also some pic of Eli opening his Easter gifts from us and Grandad and Nana.

Easter BBQ

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Then we headed to my brother's house to BBQ and hang out with the family. Eli got a kite from his Mama for Easter and he thought it was AMAZING that he could actually fly it!

Easter

I have been falling behind! And once I get behind, it's hard to start again! So I will backtrack a bit. Here are some pic from our Easter day. We went to sunrise service, held at The Flower Fields in Carlsbad with about 900 people. Enjoy!

Miracles Do Happen

There are alot of emotions going on today as today marks the one year anniversary that one of my best friends Miranda, suffered her AFE (Amniotic Fluid Embolism- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amniotic_fluid_embolism). On one hand I am so excited to celebrate Van's first birthday, however it is so difficult to not go back to that day a year ago.

April 9, 2008 was a day of mourning in the midst of celebration. There was cause for celebration of the arrival of Baby Van, but of course seemingly at the expense of his Mom, Miranda.

The next several days were terrifyingly treacherous as we awaited the news of what Miranda's future was to be, if she had any at all. The pain that I experienced that day was not a selfish pain of possibly losing my best friend, it was a pain for her husband Bryce and her parents Bob and Star. My responsibility was to do the best I could in taking care of Bryce during those awful days. Miranda woke up from her coma and I believe that God breathed his breathe into her body again. I experienced a miracle in front of my face. Her body will of course never be the same, with all sorts of complications, but her mind and spirit were saved. Most women who live have major neurological damage.

When I started typing this I wasn't sure were it was going to go and not sure what else to say except that God still performs miracles and I was a witness to one a year ago today. I am so grateful that he loved Bryce, Miranda and Van so much that he brought her body back to life. I love you 3 so much and will forever be here.

This is a song that I sang over Miranda while in a coma and in my car back and forth to the hospital countless times. I hope it blesses you as much as it brings tears and healing to my heart.

I LOVE freebies on Craigslist

So around 10am yesterday morning I checked the freebies on and found 2 free zoo tickets that expired on 3/31. I scooped them up and we were at the zoo by 11:30am :) Eli and I spent the whole day there and had LOTS of fun! We had one BIG bummer though. I, yes I, broke our digital camera! UGH I was sooo mad... As I was walking and pushing the rental car down one of the trails that is posted: "STEEP TRAIL, NO WHEELCHAIRS AND STROLLERS". Yes I was breaking the rules too! My backpack that was laying ontop of the rental car/stroller slipped off and landed on the floor. My camera was inside and obviously took the brunt of the fall. It is broken, screen is white with a bunch of lines thru it! I can't live without my camera, it goes EVERYWHERE with me and I take tons of pix with it. Guess I better figure out when we can buy another one and start shopping for a good deal! One of Eli's favorite thing at all amusement parks are the machines that smash and imprint pennies, he as you guessed collects those!