those pictures i promised id post..but havent gotten around till until today.

so, here finally, are the pictures.. hope theyre worth looking at.

hudson sleeping..

so i went a little crazy with veggie pics...

izzy coloring. candid? not really.. she knew i was taking a picture.

a picture of mom. just at the right moment. this IS a candid.. im pretty sure..

one of those popo tiver looks...


another one of hudson.

cheesecake.

so.. i like this one..


alrightt.
well, hope ya like the pics.

xox becca

happy pop-o's birthday

so..
im sure as you all know, that yesterday was dear pop-o devenny's birthday. i have to say, it was pretty eventful. With the loss of my dad, the usual tradition of feasting at mom-o and pop-o's was almost the same, but with one empty chair, and an extra lit candle on the table.

well.. dinner was scheduled for 3 o'clock, and if you know the devenny family, eating at 3, means arriving extra early, or a half an hour late. but, no matter what time you get there, everyone always waits until the last person finally arrives. so in my case, i came at 3:30 with jenny and jarrett the last people to arrive. when we got to the famous diner of momo and popo (otherwise known as their kitchen), we unloaded all 27 tons of our presents, and left 15 tons in the truck. (most of it was my stuff, ya no, clothes, violin, some other presents.)
when we got inside it smelt soooo good, as always.
mom-o opened the door and the smell of food just filled the air, it was amazing.
we walked in and everyone said their usual hellos and gave us some hugs. i put the 6 bags of presents down i was carrying, and made my way to the kitchen. the usual happened.. pretty much just ate some food, and talked with everyone.

then, it was time to sing happy birthday to the birthday boy. mom-o lighted the candles, but before she did.. i had asked pop-o if there was an extra candle i could use..so he directed me to momo who handed me a little 6oz yankee candle. i went back to the dining room, and lighted the candle.. i told everyone that the candle was for my dad. (love ya dad. god i miss you). so he was there.. in a way, he really was.
after popo blew out his candles and we handed out the cake, it was time for some presents for the little toddler. (hehe) we handed some presents, and he opened them. (sadly, i dont have pictures from last night).. but hopefully you get the idea. Pop-o was very grateful but he kept saying he didnt want anything and that the most important gift was the family that was around him. (awee, thanks pop, we love you too.)
after pop-o opened his gifts, i got handed a bag, a box, a small bag that i kept putting on the counter (sorry aunt jo), and got thrown a pink package from meg. (she must have told me like 7 times to open it. haha, i just had to wait for the right moment to open it. hehe)
we opened our presents, and some water works came. when momo opened the box from jenny, there was a picture stand that said memories. There were three pictures in it, of my dad and jenny.. one from halloween 2 years ago when jen was the shark that said best catch ever and my dad was the fisherman. there was also a picture from their first trip together (i think it was on a crusie), and one from zach and tonia's wedding. i have to say, those pictures were some tear jerkers, but they showed just how much we think about dad every day. we miss ya dad, hope heaven is as great as its said to be.

so, after everyone opened the presents, it was time for the christmas eve service held at my church. (some crazy family ill tell ya, want to come see me play the violin.) haha. it was nice, we played 3 songs, and then my uncle (the pastor of the church) said a little message about the christmas story. then, it was time for the traditional candlelight service. the ushers lit the pastor's candle and then the little light traveled all through the sanctuary, till everyone's candle was light. then it hit me, i started crying, and looked towards jenny. i went to stand next to her, we stood there singing silent night, with tears pouring down our face, and runny noses, embraced in each others arms planning on never lettin go. id say my dad told me merry christmas last night, i really believe he did. it really meant a lot to me that my family went to the service, i mean, they always do.. but this year was a little different. Dad always used to come, he liked hearin me play the violin, but i think thats about all. but, this year i think he came for the whole service. he was there, might have just been there in my heart, but it was an appearance, so it meant a lot...
so, thanks dad, merry christmas. i love you so much. ill be talking to you through walls like i always do, hope you can hear me. and if ya cant, try to get some hearin aids.. :]
well, thats all the bloggin i got for now.. love ya,

becca


(down below are some of the pictures from christmas. taken with the NEWWW digital camera i got for christmas. (2 lenses reallly nice) thankss mom and don and santa (aka dad) more will be added in a different post, later. but hope you like these for now.)

mmmm. lasagne (christmas dinner)

so this is one of three of mom attackin don with the lettuce

salad, before it was cut up.



well, there will be more pictures. post them soon, love everyone./

xox, becca

sugar cookies, and puppy greetings.

so,
hmm.. where do i start? this is the first full blog. so, enjoy reading it. im not sure how often, but ill bee keepin ya updated on the lovely blog of becca. have a look see. :]

well, today i went to church.. as usual, played my violin a little sing song. and went into kingdom kids. (for those of you for have no idea what im talking about, kingdom kids is a kids ministry program at my church for preschoolers and kindergarten kids while their parents are in the service.. i help out with it.) okay soo, as i was saying. after the yah dah yah dah and everything, i hung out with the famous Zach and Tonia. Whooopiieee!!! it was really funn. and as im typing, their standing in the kitchen here, at my house. okayy so. i hung out with zach and tonia.. but when we were hanging outt.. yeahh this is how it kinda went.

first, we went to manhattan bagel, because a little mr. zacharaiah was hungry. so we stopped in to grab somethin to eat so we could just grab food and eat it in the car. yeah, well, we got in there little bagel shop duhickie and there was some people in there.. so i had some time to figure out what i wanted to eat. hehe. i had a bacon egg and cheese on a plain bagel mmmm. mmm. tonia had a bacon egg and cheese but on a cinnamon raisin bagel, and zach had a sausage egg and cheese on a rye bagel. so, we got our food and i got my apple juice. tonia was gonna get her hot chocolate, but the machine was out of it, so she got french vanilla stuff instead. and zach got coffee. so, we paid and everythign and than.. tonia looked in the bag to make sure everything was fine and stuff.. (idk some girl thing. my mom does it too.. i guess to make sure no one messed up the order or something) yeah.. so she looked in the bag and found her sandwhich, but..it wasnt toasted. so she asked the nice kind lady at the counter to toast her bagel.. me and zach just kinda stood there and waited for the bagel to be toasted. so finally.. it was done and everything was fine, so we went on our way. zach and tonia has set up to look at two houses, so we went to the first one. zach was telling me how his realator is pretty funny and entertaining. crazy talker ill tell ya. so, we pulled up to the house and ate our yummy bagels and drank our lovely beverages. (thanks zach). so, we were waiting for (Geraldine.. Gerry) to arrive. we waited for about.. maybe a half hour or twenty minutes. so zach called him and he said he was coming.. ya da ya da... so he finally got there and we looked through the house and everything, all that fun house looking shahanagins. :] we were finished.. and then there was another house in burlington we were going to look at. Gerry was talking about his GPS system and what way to take, but if you know zach, he's the scenic route type of guy who doesnt care if it takes an extra ten minutes to take to get to anywhere... so Gerry gave up, and followed us. we got to the next house.. and yeah.. that was fun. when we were done looking, we al had a nice little chit chat outside. so, Gerry thought i was like seventeen.. and he got a kick out of i am only fourteen.. haha. so, we were done our nice little house looking, and we continued on our way...

next.. we went to shoprite, and that was fun in itself. hah. me and tonia wandered around the store for like fourty-fove minutes before zach came in. (he was talkin on the phone.. that slacker) hehe. so, we were in asile 8, and he thought we got a lot accomplished.. hah. we didnt. tonia was runnig around, looking at everything, wandering what to buy. we had like maybe 4 things in the cart, shampoo, razors, onions?, and a pepper i think. ha,, that was fun. then, zach came in, and was like. "what are you doing??" and took the list. so i followed, and i got the clue that when you go grocery shopping with tonia, you have to ask her if she wants anything in this asile, in that asile.. over here and over there. i continued with zach, and tonia went loking around.. well.. running around. perhaps dancing to the lovely christmas time music that was playing in the shoprite speakers as the crazy sunday shoppers do their grocery shopping. (i'll tell ya, dont go shopping on a sunday afternoon at like, four in the afternoon. lots of crazy shoppers..) so, we were done shopping and we went home to unload everyhting.. when we got home.. we unloaded everything, and zach took the pooch for a nice stroll around the condo, so she could relieve herself. we decided we would go to moms house for nice ham steaks and scalloped potatoes. yumm yumm. :] but.. tonia said that she had cookie dough left over in the refridgerator.. so we decided to take it to moms. :]

we got to moms.. and scarlett came with us. im sure you all know, but we just got a nice little cute addition to our family. his name is hudson, about 7 weeks old, chocoalte lab. :] so, they wanted to have them meet each other. hehe.. hmm, so we got to moms, and zach took scarlett to the backyard to relieve herslef (yes, again) and me and tonia went inside. when scarlett was finished and everything, they came to the back door, and we let them in. husdon was afraid of scarlett. yeah, im sure you would be to if you were like half the size of a dog you never met. so, they met and evertyhing.. hudson hid behind everyone and thing he could fit behind. wehn eveything was fine with them, tonia brought out the cookie dough. she rolled and cookie-cuttered it, and izzy and her decorated most of them.. i did like a total of one tray maybe?? but, we have some pictures of the poochs, and the lovely cookies.
have a good time lookin at themm. love ya,
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big sister scarlett and baby hudson.
hudson being a goof.
hudson hiding underneath the island chairs. notice the white circle, scarlett's eye. wanting hudson to come out and play. silly puppies.
tonia making a sugar heart cookie for mom. :] good job tonia, looks great.
all the nice cookies tonia and izzy made. good job!!
all the sugar cookies we made. how yummy, yumm yumm.

one of the cookies izzy made. i think one of the dogs barked and the sprinkles went flying. hehe.
some cookie dough and cookie cutters. just a picture i thought was cute.
tonia making another cookie, i think i took a picture while her hand was moving. whoops, sorry.

when zach and tonia left, he was a passed out little puppy. sweet dreams hudson.


well, those are all the pictures from the fun night. hope you all liked them.
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