The Party

A year ago yesterday we shared the birth of our fourth child, Brayden, with so many family members. This is not uncommon for us. With every birth, every close member of our family has packed bags and headed for Boone to celebrate a new little life. These family members all care about sharing life together. They all have special roles they play out in our family and we are so grateful for the many ways they all love us.
We invited our extended family up again yesterday to celebrate our four growing children. They all have birthdays relatively close together, so we just decided to haveone big party this year, with all that is going on in our lives this Spring. It is so refreshing to be in the presence of our parents and siblings and have them be truly interested in sharing life together with a deep love and devotion. I am growing each year, each day, each moment and learning how blessed I am to have such an amazing and unique family. Thank you, Lord, for a family that I can celebrate life's greatest moments with.

Might I add that my dad and stepmom, Sally traveled all the way from Kentucky to be with us. They recently moved out there because of Dad's new job. We were so excited for them to be here.

We all just hung out here yesterday. We ate a lot, let the kids open presents, looked at pictures of our new house, chatted, had cake and shared lots of laughs with one another. I know our children were just tickled to have all their closest loved ones in the same house all celebrating with them.

On a sad note, we realized that this would probably be the last time our family would travel up here for a birthday party, or at all to see us. Sniff, sniff. We sure glad we have all the memories.