my boy is twenty-five years old
Thats right, TWENTY-FIVE. To commemorate the big day I’m putting some pictures up here. Because he loves that kind of stuff. Anything to be in the spotlight. HA!! Sorry Max,…
an 80th birthday for a man full of light
Dave’s dad turned 80 on Saturday. It is a beautiful thing to examine a life well-lived. Just look at this man: He is so full of light and goodness. And…
holding my breath into a big birthday
Something seemingly-to-me quite awful happened a couple weeks ago. I had a birthday. Which is normally all fine and dandy, right? Birthdays are the best, even when you get older….
the celebration of our newest adult (Claire’s birthday) and some surprise visitors
CLAIRE IS EIGHTEEN! Neither of us are ready for that, and in fact, she shed some good, still-smiling tears thinking about that dang growing up business. But at least she…
A beauty birthday sunset-glory hike
My birthday arrives right after Claire’s. And I have a lot to say about that one (it was a big one this year), but for now, let’s just bask in…
how to deal with your second-to-last child morphing into an adult
CLAIRE IS 18 TODAY! Holy cow, I cannot even believe that little fact. Maybe it’s especially weird to me because none of our other kids turned 18 while in high…
a big birthday for Bo Jangles
Ok, this was clear back in November, but still, let’s take a minute out here because it was BO JANGLES BIRTHDAY! FIVE YEARS OLD! Elle joined us for the “party.”…
happy birthday to the guy who knows how to make things happen
See this guy? It’s his birthday today. And that picture sums up so much of him. He and I just made it through a wing-dinger of a week I tell…
Lucy’s 15th birthday
I wrote about Lucy on her big birthday back HERE, but here’s how it all went down. We have to preface this birthday account with a little surprise to start…