366 Laughs- January 20th 2016

1/20/16

Samuel's 11th birthday!



He was so thrilled that his new panda bear came in the mail.  (favorite animal).  Yes, we're watching Piano Guys in the background.  This one.

Birthday cake.  More of a sandwich haha.  It was yummy.

It's too bad we had to clean up so much of it as stomach flu came through shortly after... Ginny is having spice cake.  I don't want to see chocolate cake again for a while.

Can't you tell he's thrilled?


Silly cat card.



Haha, another panda!


Percy Jackson books.




Another of the Harry Potter books.  :)



Yummy tradition!



And... addition to his Snap Circuits.  It's a case for all of them!   He got some for Christmas, got some more with Christmas money, got some more by earning money around the house...  another electronics lover in the house.



Yep, he's 11!  The eleven candles prove it.



We're glad to  have this kiddo in our family.  We love his quirky sense of humor and his fun impressions.  We love his quiet side and his crazy side.  He's a good big brother and a huge tease.  He's smart and cute, too.  He'll get me for that, someday.

365 Joys- December 21st 2015

12/21/2015

Happy Birthday to Mom/me!


Emilie made me a cake and finished my doll I started as a Young Woman!
The cake is a Christmas tree.


What a day.  :)



Ginny is messy!

365 Joys- November 29th 2015

11/29/15

Today we celebrated this guy.  He turned 19 over the holiday but we still had to do our family stuff.  We didn't bring the presents with us, haha.  Or his cards.

So here he is, in all his greatness.

The one, the only, Michael, the leader of the pack, the eldest, the experiment (haha), the first...

He turned 19.

(no, doesn't sound real to me either.)

Cake.

Presents.

I think this one is getting stolen while he's on his mission.  Or tomorrow.


Fun stuff!



Oh, and here is the 3 year old sister playing "dead." Because that's what you do when brothers are having birthdays.

365 Joys- November 18th 2015

11/18/15

Thankful for grandmas who send birthday packages!


Better late than never!  Cool baby for Cool Benjamin.



Matching shirts for cute girls!



Love fun girl stuff!




LEGOS!  Never a bad thing.  Unless you step on one.

365 Joys- November 16th 2015

11/16/15

Thankful for these three stooges... I mean princesses... I mean ninja princesses who like suckers.

We thought we'd never have a daughter... then we thought we'd only have one girl... then we got three girls in a row after 5 boys in a row!  Wow!



Thankful for family who send birthday cards!  We love receiving mail.

365 Joys- November 10th, 2015

11/10/15

9 years ago today we had a wonderful bouncing baby boy!  He was much bigger than the doctor anticipated but we still got him here safe.  Texas will never be the same.

His name is Timothy David.  He is into everything.  He loves Dragonbreath books and Jurassic Park and Lego building.  He enjoys reading and frantic activity and Cub Scouts.  He never runs out of energy but when he does he's usually sprawled somewhere looking much larger than my 6th baby boy should.  He has curly blonde hair when we let it grow long.  He looks quite handsome with it short or long.  He loves his younger siblings and usually tolerates the older ones.

He is fascinated by Canada and UVU. (used to be UVCC, then UVSC... that other college in Prov, Utah.)  No worries, he still likes BYU.  We have no clue on the Canada thing.

We love him.  We'll keep him around.  He's growing way too fast!

We actually celebrated the day before his birthday due to lots of activities on his birthday.

365 Joys- November 5th 2015

11/5/15

We actually waited to celebrate Liberty's birthday until tonight when Dad could be home, too.

What a great night!

I am thankful for family traditions and silliness.

Birthday dinner, then presents!

Birthday chocolates from Dad, who works for Russell Stover chocolates!


Birthday cake!


And who knows what we're doing here.

365 Joys- November 4th 2015

11/4/15

Six years ago we had our second daughter.  Emilie had waited nearly 9 years.  We'd had 7 sons.

Then came Liberty Rose!

We are so thankful for her spunky attitude, her friendliness, her love of all the world.

We are so glad she's here!

365 Joys- October 5th 2015

10/5/15

We love extended family birthday cards!

365 Joys- October 4th 2015

10/4/2015

Benjamin's 17th birthday plus the second day of General Conference.  Awesome all in one day!
He was born in Provo, Utah, on a Sunday of General Conference.  I got to the hospital, had Benjamin, and then we watched Conference together in the recovery room.  Good stuff right there.



Juliana and Ginny taking notes for General Conference in the same notebook.



Ginny just happy.



Christopher being handsome.


Benjamin has requested lasagna for his birthday as long as I can remember.... I think we have photographic evidence somewhere.


Chocolate cake, of course!



Ginny sitting in a big camp chair.  (The camp chairs were out for Conference.)



Emilie experimenting with makeup... she's pretending to be goth.  She really isn't!



Kids watching.



Benjamin.


Opening presents... Jules is watching him open a homemade card.


Juliana was telling him what the present was as he was opening it, and then to go color!



Swedish Fish!



Benjamin contemplating cake.


Happy 17th, Benjamin!