Happy Birthday Michael

Happy Birthday my tiny brother.

I prayed for you night and day.

"Just one more brother Lord."

"Please"

And you were given to us.

A tiny blessing

A Tiny Joy

A Tiny Partner in Crime for Ryan

A Joy Everyday

A Loving addition to our family.

Happy third Birthday Michael Joseph.


May you have MANY more!!!

Love, Jessica

My Brothers

Ryan is one of my brothers.

Ryan at his birthday when we were camping got some legos.

Michael is a another brother I love him he is so cute.
Michael love's bike's.I like bikes too!!!!!!

Our Weather is Warming up...

And my Little Brother is getting cuter!!!


Jessica

My Hero!

"My Hero Drives a Lawn Mower While I sit in my pjs and eat oranges and strawberries!"




"See? All finished. I can go now!"







Jess

His Hands...

We went to violin lessons today. As I walked out to the car I had my violin across my back (my favorite place for it), my backpack in my arms, and Baby Brother's tiny hand tucked into my hand. He is so sweet and small. He smiles at me and I want to hug him. He walks with me and I smile at him.

Before to long, he will be grown. He will be 18 and I will me 32. Impossible. So I let him hold my hand a little longer. It will be to soon that he let's go.

Oldest Sister

The Cello Lesson

Third Sister and Baby Brother decided to play cello. Actually Third Sister and I were playing and Baby Brother pulled out Second Sister's Violin. So Third Sister stopped and taught him.

First they pulled it out.

Then they tightened it a "tiny bit".

He tested the rosin.

He didn't know what she was talking about.
"The G Scale???"

He Tuned.

And he played!!!

Baby Brother Loves Cello.


Oldest Sister

What a fun brother!!

I know I have been doing Michael a lot, but he is SO cute!! Today he was "in the jungle" shooting tigers!! Hence the potted fern!!

Precious Little One

Photo Shoot at the ASDEF

LONG STORY ON THE NAME, BUT IT TOOK FOREVER TO GET ERIN AND MICHAEL TO BEHAVE. THEY LOVE TO BE IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA! AND IT WAS TERRIBLE!


P.S. ASDEF stands for - All Saints Day Evening Festival - Our Dad thought it up!

A Normal Birthday At Our House

So it is your birthday!!!

You start the day out by everyone singing to you to wake you up!
And...you don't have to help make breakfast!

Then before we start breakfast you get sung to again which is always exciting seeing as how not one of us can carry a tune and we all like to sing our own little way for example one person will decide to come in with a simply terrible bass part while another will come in with a ear-piercing-glass-shattering soprano.

You get to open a present at the breakfast table and then you get to take off from chores afterward.

You get to make your own cake and ice-cream -that is if we remember!
And through out the day you get special privileges like no school work,you get to pick the movie if we watch one, get the mail, and so on.

Well then dinner rolls around.

Well your siblings have made a special dinner for you and your Mom&Dad because they are so wonderful -Right Jess?:~)
So you eat with your parents while you listen to the rest of us eat in the kitchen -Yikes!

Well after dinner we all get together for cake and ice-cream and someone says something like "Um... Where's the ice-cream?" Well we forgot to make it!
So we all raid the freezer to look for ice-cream from the last birthday that is one of the good things about being in a big family- the ice-cream was only a few weeks old!
Well we all eat then we move on to the presents!


There are like 50 cameras all taking your picture OK maybe not but it sure seems like it.
Well say you start with a card from your grandparents and you get around 10 dollars,

Michael takes it and wads it in a ball,

Erin tells you that you could get a violin mute,

Daddy rolls over and snores,

Rachel asks what you got,

Jamie takes a picture,

Sarah chases Michael,

Mommy tells Michael to give the money back,

Emily asks how much you got,

And someone shoves another gift in your face.

When its all over you are sad yet glad that your family loves you so much!-Right Jess:~)
And the next morning everything falls back into routine like nothing ever happened until another birthday rolls around!

-Erin

Michael Touches The Rain

This is a picture we took one time of Michael reaching out to touch the rain.
Emily told him to put his hand out for the rain and when he did we took this picture.

Posted by Jamie with a little help from Erin

Friends and Family - hiking

Just kidding!

After the hike up the cliff, I mean hill!, we stopped at the cross.
Daddy wished his burden would fall off, like in Pilgrims Progress, but unfortunately Baby Brother and the backpack stayed on!

Baby Brother loved their trains

Lots of Kitties

Second Sister and "Skunk-face"
They named him we didn't

I am NOT killing it! I am being very gentle!

Finished!

Oldest Brother at the chapel!

Taking a break - a much needed break!

Oldest Brother inspects the great and interesting rock

Everyone stand on the edge of the rock and make the mom's nervous

My sweet brother

The moms and two of their little ones!

We had so much fun with the B Family. There were 17 kids and it was so much fun.
A hike to the top of the mountain, look at the cross and the chapel, and then back down the cliff... I mean trail! It was a trifle steep!!! But we had so much fun.
Don't ask how far it was, because all I got out of them was that it was 20 up and 20 down. Yeah right!

You can't tell, but I am way above them!

Sweet Little Princess

Mommy and Mrs. B- two great moms

We were hiking, so it's a little blurry, but here's Little Sister.
It was a great trail!

Siblings

Howdy

I think I have the best family

At Land between the Lakes!

At the museum with our Grand Mother.

Ryan Caching the sun.


Posted by Emily