Celebrating Wilson Ramirez' Birthday

July 29, 2018

We celebrated Wilson Ramirez' birthday today! Wilson and Nancy, John and Jass Ortiz, Jaime Beer and Jacob Lentz (our grandson) joined us today.

Yvonne always tries to make a person's favorite meal for their birthday. After checking around, Yvonne found out for Wilson that was cheeseburgers and vanilla shakes. So that's what she made!

Jaime actually made the milk shakes...they were goooood!

Jacob, who is 8 years old, knew it was a "party" so he pulled out a lot of our board games and set them up all over the house for people to play. It was so cute! What a GREAT kid!!!

Jass played Jenga with Jacob while Yvonne was making the hamburgers.

John and Jass

Nancy and Wilson

We all sat down at the table...and trust me, the hamburgers didn't last long!

Sometimes I get tired of never being in pictures. So I had John take a picture of me trying to get my mouth around my hamburger. It was tough, but I got it done! :)

After dinner we watched the video of Nick Vujicic's testimony. He is the man born without arms and legs, but is so inspirational in the lives of so many others sharing his faith in Jesus Christ who gives him hope and purpose for his life! Awesome testimony!

After the video we prayed together and then Jass played tic tac toe and checkers with Jacob. John and I played our own game of checkers. Then after everyone left Jacob and I played checkers.

What a really fun afternoon!

White Chicken Chili, Chocolate Chip Pie, and Nick Vujicic!

Great weekend!

Monday we got an email from a young man who introduced himself as a hospital corpsman at Oceana Naval Air Station asking about joining our Saturday evening game night. We wrote back, gave him our phone number,  and now he's a member our extended family!

Tristin's selfie!

Josh, Andrew, Tristin, and Titus Ray joined us!

We had a really complex meal: fish sticks, french fries, and cinnamon rolls

Then we played Settlers of Catan. Titus had never played the game before so we had to teach him. He caught on real quick! Since we had six players we had to use the expansion pack. That made the board a lot bigger! Andrew won the game! Titus said next time we play he will win! Judging from the look on Andrew's face he isn't so sure about that.

Today Josh, Andrew, and Titus joined us for Sunday school and worship at church. Then it was on to our house for dinner. Cristian and Tristin joined us for dinner too!

Yvonne made White Chicken Chili, and home made French bread for dinner.

This is what the soup tureen looked like after five hungry sailors finished with it! 

Josh Ellinor made a Chocolate Chip Pie with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge sauce for dessert.

Looks great doesn't it?

After dinner we watched a video called "Verve!"

The story of Nick Vujicic, a man born with no arms and no legs, but with a wonderful spirit and powerful testimony for Jesus Christ.

After we watched the video everybody Googled his name and wanted to see what his wife looked like! All of the guys agreed she was really good looking!

Finally, we shared prayer requests and prayed together.

I found this story about Nick on YouTube and thought I would share it here too.