December 30, 2009

• My Lanie- January 2, 1999

  

    December 29th, 2009

  In honor of my Elena Joy's 11th birthday, her life briefly in pictures:

     

  Home with big sis, Lizzy looking on January 2, 1999

       

  January 2006 For those who know our Lanie, she's never without her ever faithful and much repaired woobie. Her woobie has a new face now, but here it is when Mrs.Dorni fixed it for her.

    

  After Daddy went to live with Jesus, we took his ashes to Pennsylvania. Here Lanie & Sisters are hugging the Punxsatawney groundhog statue...and at the Hotel Hershey.

      

  Elena refused to smile for the camera....and here she is with her horse jumper Birthday '07

   

  I call these her model shots, both were just me catching her in mid-motion, she never poses like this.

   

  From her birthday year or two ago, Lanie & her friend Holly who also has a January b-day, and our Hoppy with the pinata.  Elena holding mom up!

  

  July 13, 2009, at her sister, Hannah's 7th birthday party with family.

  My Elena is my middle gal and very unique, besides her absolute passion for horses and devotion to her woobie. Elena has always been reserved with strangers, but becomes a giggling playful handful when she's among friends. Usually opting to play "horse" she is the horse and pulls kids in a wagon or gives rides, or talks her friend Holly into being the horse and giving her a ride! Lanie loves animals of all kinds, and animals seem to know that she's their champion. She works hard and is of a fairly even temperament, usually in good spirits. She reads well and cooks breakfast for her family most days. Lanie is learning to crochet and sew as well as her regular schooling. She loves the outdoors and keeping shoes on her is a challenge. Elena hopes to marry a cowboy/farmer who has horses (of course). She loves broccoli and potatoes and dislikes most meats, because it's chewy . Elena is looking forward to someday having her own horse on our farm, so she is reading up and learning as much as she is able. She is learning how to be patient because it will be a long while yet before that dream happens, if it is able to at all. A good lesson for a young person to have and a good goal.

  Elena is indeed our joy and we are so pleased that God has gifted her to us. Her daddy was very proud of her and wrote in a letter to her that he felt an affinity with her, being a middle child himself and encouraged her to care for her sisters and to maintain her joyful love of life around her. God has blessed Lanie with a very tender heart and a love for others that we hope will grow and grow for His glory and her good.

  "Father in heaven, thank you for our light and joy, Jesus, and for this precious child, Elena Joy who brings light and joy to our family in so many ways.  Please keep her in your ways and bless her all of her days with a sweetly feminine and godly spirit. In Jesus Name, Amen"

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