Happy Birthday, Britney!

Today is my daughter's birthday. She is my oldest child, now 24 years old and no longer a child, but a mother now too. She's my only girl and had to put up with three baby brothers, I'm not sure if it's the brothers' fault or not but she's never been a girly girl. However, we have a girly girl in Adrianna, her daughter, and I plan on telling you more about that at another time.

Britney has a wonderful family, full of love, laughter and so many escapades she should write a book.

I hope she has a wonderful birthday! And I want to thank her once again for making a grandmother out of me.

And I promise that little velcro baby won't stay stuck to her forever and I'm so proud that she tries daily to appreciate the stages her children are at and soak them in. She's a great mother!

I look forward to our Tuesday night dinners while the guys are at work and it's just her and me and the babies. The only thing different tonight is that we'll have to eat cake!

Bryguy!

My step-son, Bryan also lives in Missouri - he didn't like the Wisconsin cold very much, lol and moved back to MO a few years ago. This is the shortest his hair has been in a number of years! I wish I had his hair because it is beautifully curly when longer.

Being silly

Amber is quite a bit shorter than Bryan and she was even wearing heels! lol

Ahhhhh, aren't they cute?!

Hope to see you guys again soon!

Introducing my Kids

Originally posted September 5, 2007

We tried our annual photo shoot of the kids a little differently this year in that we just told them to “go over there and be yourselves”. This meant that in order to get a shot like this:


We had to first go through a lot of this:


It had been a few years since we were able to get all four of my kids out at the same time to take photos so I was really happy to see this:


Dennis managed to capture my youngest son’s spirit perfectly and this one will go on the wall.


Haden is 15 and has always loved the outdoors. In the photo he has a crawdad (crayfish) in his hand. He’s had stitches seven times and broken a couple of fingers. He loves to hike, bike, camp and anything that involves outside and bugs or snakes. I once almost lost him because he stopped to watch some ants. He’s all boy all the time!

Shockingly enough, we managed to pry my middle son away from his computer long enough to spend a couple of hours at the park.

Khristiaan as he likes to be called now - it is his first name I just spent the first 15 years of his life calling him by his middle name, Gage. He’ll always be Gator to me. Khris will be 18 this month and is looking for a job, anyone need a hacker? All of his life he has woken up with a smile and when he’s not annoying the crap out of you he’s pretty funny. He was everywhere!



The main reason we went out was to get some photos for Mikal and Amy (We’ll be doing it again in a couple of weeks for Britney and Nick). Hopefully, they like theirs.



Mikal is my oldest son, he’ll be 20 in December. He and Amy have been dating for 3 years and I think they look really cute together. Mikal loves playing with photoshop and loves his Scion TC. He was always my hyper one and maybe a little clumsy. He’ll talk your ear, especially if it has anything to do with computers or Scions.



I keep wondering what Mikal asked for to cause such a look on Amy’s face.



Britney is my oldest, 21, and her little one is now 6 months old. You’ll be seeing more of her in a couple of weeks when we do her family photos. She’s my only girl, my firstborn and the source of every grey hair on my head. Ok, not really. She’s a very protective mama of little Tristan. I thought she was going to give birth to a cow when I suggested we put him in the baby swing, “Does it have germs on it?” I wonder what she’ll do when he takes that first mouthful of dirt, and you know he will.

Most important of all, Tristan had fun at the park.


If you click on any photo in the mosaics you can see the full photo. They got cropped a little weird but I had so many I wanted to share it seemed the best way.