Flanagan Clan

Things have been pretty busy here lately. Today I’ve been preparing for the arrival of Andrew’s brother, James, tomorrow. He’ll be staying with us for a week. Tomorrow is also Sammy’s 1st birthday, and tonight I’m planning to do a practice try on the special cake I plan to bake him for his big party on Saturday. That way he’ll have a cake tomorrow, on his real birthday, too! He’s really going to get fat off of all this cake!

I just wanted to point out attention to two things that Andrew and I have updated in recent days. First, Andrew went ahead and wrote a little summary of our lives, which you can view in the “About” page. The link is at the top, next to News and Contacts. Secondly, due to a little mistake, we weren’t able to close down sarahflanagan.com, so I’ve started posting random things on that website again, if there is anyone interested in that.

Lastly, you may or may not have noticed that I didn’t post a name clue yesterday. I got the idea of the name game off a friend’s blog, but it doesn’t appear as though there’s been much interest. Not that I’m upset… I just thought it looked like a fun game and thought more people would be eager to play. So, we’re going to keep the name of the baby a secret until birth. We’ve had a couple mixed reactions from the few people we have mentioned the name to anyways, and I’m beginning to think it might be better to wait and reveal it after the baby is born, so no one can give us ANY grief! (And, in case that last statement is making you wonder what sort of strange and horrible name we have planned to torture our child with… if you know Andrew and I, we don’t go for the unusual names… so don’t worry!!!)

If you’d like to know the gender though… here’s your last hint.

Boy, oh boy, oh BOY!

Our dear mother, grandmother, and sister, Leona Lucille Feucht, age 87, passed away on Friday morning, July 13, 2007 at Miramont Pointe Senior Living Center after suffering a heart attack. Leona died exactly 10 years, to the date, after her husband Samuel Feucht.

The funeral will be held at 2:00pm Wednesday July 18 at Lincoln Memorial Park Funeral Home, 11801 SE Mt. Scott Blvd. Portland, Oregon. Burial will take place in Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery next to her husband. Visitation is on Tuesday from 10am till 5pm at Lincoln Memorial Park Funeral Home.

Leona was born on August 17, 1919 in Tremonton Utah to Aaron and Lena Eggli into a family of 11 children. She married Samuel Feucht on Feb. 27, 1949 in Maywood, CA. They were blessed with six children: Dennis of Belize, Lewis of Oregon City, OR, Kenneth of Puyallup, WA, Karen of Austin, TX, Gaylon of Portland, OR, and Gloria of Vancouver, WA. She is also survived by 8 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Leona was a loving mother, homemaker, and member of the Apostolic Christian Church.

She will be greatly missed by family and friends.

Since Auntie Rachel is leaving for Iowa tomorrow, we decided to throw a small early birthday party for Sammy, with just Auntie Rachel, Mommy, Patrick and Sammy. Here are some pictures from our little party!

Patrick hugging Big Bear

Giving Sammy his cupcake

“Wow…. candle… fire!!!”

Playing with the frosting

Frosting is fun!!!

Smushing cupcake is also fun!

Patrick is an old pro when it comes to cupcake eating

Sammy finally gets something into his mouth…

…and he suddenly understands the joys of eating a chocolate cupcake!

Clue #1: Both first and middle names are found in the Bible

Clue #2: The first name is found in the Old Testament, and the middle name is found in the New Testament 

The ancient Chinese came up with a chart which was suppose to determine the gender of your baby based upon the age of the mother and the conception month of the baby. I have no idea why anyone would believe that this actually works, and I wouldn’t recommend using this chart in order to conceive a certain gender. However, in my three pregnancies, the chart has been correct in it’s predictions twice. Let’s just call it a lucky guess!

Here’s the link to the chart: Chinese Gender Chart

By the way, we’ve already had several people correctly guess the gender based upon the first clue! I’ll probably give one or two more hints before I end up blurting it out, because it’s hard to come up with good hints for gender!!!