Happy Birthday, Beckyboo!

I can see your girls in this little pic of you....awww.

A good auntie you are...

Birthday girl! 11:39 am, February 27, 1978...as I've mentioned, it took me some getting used to...Mom didn't like it when I tried to poke your eyes out. I'm used to you now. mostly. :)

Happy Birthday, Beck. I'm blessed to have you in my life...now, let's go to the Y!

Today is YOUR day...and it looks the weather cooperated...I mean, who wouldn't WANT a light dusting of snow and below freezing temps?

Whaa? that does not match up with our tropical isle, drinks with little umbrellas in them, swaying palm trees dreams now does it?

No.

Maybe next year.

GOOD MORNING, STARSHINE!!

The Earth says HELLO!
from sweet little K-Mart brown baby turties to self portraits...this cat is craaaazy!!
giving herself a mean case of static electricity w/Gma G's hairbrush...a classic pose
here we are with all of our cousins but one (Jonathon wasn't born yet)
B. is the child that needs a spanking and I have on that great mini dress w/knee socks

the day my life changed for the better...when momma brought that "new" baby girl home to take my place, er, join our family....(it's actually just a sack of potatoes...there is NO baby in that pink "bag")

You know I love you, right B? well, I do...digging through pix with you is one of my favorite things to do and finding all these treasures this evening was a true joy. except for our obnoxious kids running in circles in your house...and the fact that I left 3 of my kids in my car, thinking we could make it a "quick" trip. I have such a blast with you...even if mom has always liked you more (I still haven't figured that one out).

We were watching the 10 p.m. news and the dude mentioned the Lunar eclipse. I hope that you out there were able to see that because it was really something. And kinda freaky too...I will try to get my funky pix of it up here tomorrow but it's 2 a.m. and I'm going to go to bed. so Molly can wake up as soon as I hit that beginning sleep.

We shall be back soon...hope y'all are enjoying the kids' blogs. They are having so much fun doing them. I took pictures of all 3 of them hugging tonight...they got "a talking to" this evening and I made them all hug after some discipline...they really are good kids. they just take each other for granted...and they got that straight from me. I'm such an infidel. ok, time for bed...using words I don't know how to use but you gotta see this thing I can post on my blog...it's a spelling thing and you can find it on the link here on my blog "Boy in a Zoo"...go visit Sam and tell him HI and also take a spelling test at the bottom of his page...it's fantastic. I could sit and do it all day!

Ahhhhhhh. see ya tomorrow. hope you enjoyed my very Becky post!

Repeat: reasons to hide your camera from your kids & calendar pages..

I leave to make lunch and this is what the kids do!
She resembles a Hobbit...minus hairy feet.
Ethan loves to take pics of people's eyes, noses etc...
These are Levi's winkers

Beck, I am just about done on your calendar

Today was a miserably rainy, 63 degree (whaaaaa?) day here in the swell midwest! Indiana is suffering from some serious flooding right now! We are safe in our ark! Meanwhile, I have a full plate but without writing all of the mundane little tasks I have before me, one of the biggest feats will be completing the calendars I had hoped to have completed last weekend, for dear sissy and dear mommy (part of their Christmas gifts)...I'm coming, girls...Beck, yours will be done before mom's..(sorry momma). This is NOT cool in my book.

Melanie and I walked in the rain today. My treadmill is down. bummer. I came home and rode on the recumbent bike as well. Great motivation for losing weight (besides the obvious ones like being uncomfy, lack of clothing, and not being able to do the tango, etc) is watching Biggest Loser...Love.....that....show.

We ended our evening with some praise time, Bible reading and prayer as a family, David came home at 7:30 tonight! It is such a blessing to sit around in our living room, sing some songs to praise the Lord, read some really good scripture (Matthew ch. 6 tonight) which ends with Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you... I pray our kids seek God's will for their lives first and foremost...above all else. We are reading thru the New Testament as a family this year, which has proven to be quite interesting thus far...the first chapter of Matthew is such and such begat this guy who begat this dude...etc. Mel was worried because she wasn't sure how to pronounce the names. cute girl! :) wish I was half as tender-hearted!

> Forgive the rather chatty post, I did drink some coffee at 9 p.m.

<>Beck, we need to see each other, I am having some serious withdrawal and I know Molly is missing Nora...let's hook up sis! I miss you something fierce!

> Up next, the Divine Miss M's 6 month birthday (Jan. 9) as well as a celebration of my mom's birthday on the 10th...will have to look out some "fun" pix for this! Until then, peace out!

~~I'm slightly addendum happy this week...but, in the post just south of here, I need to correct myself...the title should have read that I act like I have nothing better to do...don't ya hate it when you have a lot to do but you want to avoid it for as long as possible? that is what I was doing. I wanted to correct myself so I don't look like a COMPLETE loser/slacker! ok, thanks!~~

Becky

a good monkey impression


you can see where Nora gets her bug eyes.
My sister, dear that she is, has a knack for taking pix of herself with just about anyone's camera. These are not those pix but they are some funny ones. I will have to dig out some of the shots of her self portraits over the years...I have a little collection going somewhere...I put these on here for you, sister. laugh at yourself today. I love that we can take dopey pix of each other and have fun with it. You are my best friend, RLC. I am blessed to have you in my life! I love the many memories we share. love you peaches.