happy birthday darling!

It was a great celebration!

The upstairs was all decorated for the much anticipated Upstairs Sleepover.

Cake and ice cream and candles:

Nice job!

Here's the thing about you--we love you like crazy.

There's nobody else in the world who could ever be you, and this whole family is lucky you're in it.

Happy Birthday, Darling, and all the best wishes for a wonderful year of being EIGHT.

Love, Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody

quiet monday in the rain

Love, Val

boat ride

Love, Grandma

beautiful day

This was Friday night, cheese curds in the fryer.

Some mornings he wakes up and asks to go to the cabin and see his friends.

Awww.

Ruby, such a good sport, wrassles endlessly with Dani.

The possum filter!

We didn't even know we had such a thing.

 Love you all, Grandma

new hope play

This year's production was Shrek, and they always do a beautiful job.

Our guy was playing violin.

Beautiful evening to spend together.

Love Grandma
 

happy birthday aaron

Here's a picture of you and James together, right where you've always been, and another of you smack in the middle.

 I don't even really remember this family before you were part of it--the laughter and the squirrelly days of childhood, your patience and kindness, the way you lift all of us up and see the best in everybody.    There's nobody like you.

Twenty some years of loving you?  Lucky little old us.

Happy birthday, and wishes for a year as beautiful as you are.

Love, Val and Jay and Everybody

happy birthday alicia

Happy birthday, you sweet person, wonderful mom, loyal friend.

This whole family is lucky having you for ours, sharing the funny parts, the annoying moments, all the JOY and the aggravation.   You show up for all of it

You make everything better.

We hope the year ahead is splendid.

Love forever, Val, Jay and Everybody