Home Grown!

We've managed to keep a tomato plant not only alive, but thriving and producing! Woohoo! Zion is a great watering helper and the best picker! God is good and we are enjoying His yummy goodness! :) We picked 4 today and will have more ripe tomorrow! Woohoo!

Build-A-Bear

Had such a fun adventure yesterday with Aunt Tracy and cousin Bailey at Build-A-Bear!  Zion was just all smiles from the second we walked in!  He found his new buddy, Dino Z, pretty quickly and he's hardly put him down.  :) So cute!

37 Weeks....

Getting oh so close to meeting our precious baby girl,  Joelle Miles!  37 weeks along and ready anytime! The bags are packed, the plans are made and the waiting game begins!  But,  we know that God's timing is perfect and she will be here right when she's meant to arrive!  It's just so exciting!  We're going to have a fun filled day in Tucson today. Including, build a bear with Aunt Tracy, bookmans, and church tonight!  Super blessed to have the privilege of spending timewith my family! SO glad I'm feeling better! ! Praise God! ! May you all have a blessing filled weekend as well!

Sesame Street Live!

Last week my mom and I had the opportunity to take Zion to Sesame Street Live here in Tucson!  What a treat to see his pure joy!  It was so fun for all of us! 

And next time we'll be prepared for the extortion! Lol. Cost of tickets $15 each(from groupon), $8 parking,  $10 program,  $5 cotton candy,  and at intermission out came the $8 balloons! Him spotting Elmo for the first time. ... PRICELESS.  Lol. It was quite something, but worth every penny.   How can you resist his smile?  Lol. (and we all know that the cotton candy was more for me than him! )

The last time we saw sesame Street was in Kodiak, when they came with the USO. What a blessing that was!  I had no idea that in the real world it would cost so much! The toys they gave each  military child cost $15 here! So neat that they do that for free for our military families!

Let's try this again.....

The BIG announcement!

The BIG Reveal! Zion was able (thanks to Monny) to announce to us that Ellie was Ellie! SO exciting! 

The family as of Easter,  April 20th, 2014!

To anyone who still might want to check in on us Derton's....(as the Who's would say:)  "WE ARE HERE!" The Derton's down south. Here are a few pictures to chronicle what is currently the BIG NEWS in our family. Miss Ellie will be making her grand entrance into this world within the month! And I thought it was about time we got the blog back up and running! I LOVE being able to look back at the journey we've had thus far on this blog, and, why stop? We may have skipped a few years and major life events, but here we go! Right where we left off! WE ARE BLESSED! So, follow along as I try to attain a goal of one blog per week! :)  

Sleepy head!

Love love love this little sleepyhead!

Zion on The Drums

Zion tried hard to convince us of these drums in Costco!
He sure can drum like his daddy!