Big Weekend

Some big events this weekend... Britt's gymnastics team is going for the State Championship. Brittan is my 16 year old niece. She's been doing gymnastics since she was 4 years old and she's pretty darn good. Here's a short clip so you can get an idea of how she flies through the air.





If they get the State title, it will be ten years in a row for the team. She generally places and the bars are her strongest events -- usually scoring in the 9s!!! Wishing her a good score on bars and everything else tonight.

Tomorrow is a birthday party for Garrett. His birthday was really earlier in the month but weather and other commitments meant that they could not get to the Cape earlier. They live about 2hrs away. Anyway, he turned 4 and he wants as many parties as possible. So does little brother Ryley who's favorite food is cake.

Then sometime between today and tomorrow is my sister's birthday-- yup she's a leap year kid. We have yet to convince her that that means she doesn't have a birthday but for every four years. She thinks that being a leap year kid means that she gets an even bigger party every four years. She's a student again at age 47... gonna be a nurse this time. The first time around her studies centered around art -- and she did well as an artist. But she and Steve (structural engineer with a good position with a good firm in NY) figure putting 3 kids through college is gonna cost. So its hi ho, hi ho its back to school she go!!!!

That's all for now from us.

The Happy Birthday Boy

Wow!!! 30 years have gone by... I remember it like it was yesterday. I got home from work and your mama told me that this baby is coming. We piled back into the Beav's old International and made the drive from Falls City to the mid-wife in Dallas on the King's Valley Highway. It was a foggy, rainy night... could barely see the center line and we were near empty. Oh what a night!!! Your mama was in full labor and had to stick her hand up under the dash to keep the windshield wipers wiping-- the motor was burned out. But we made it and you waited til we got there... Thank you very much. Cecilia Miller, the mid-wife carefully placed you in a basket beside the bed. She said the baby needed his own space. As soon as she left, we scooped you up and moved you into the big bed and there you stayed for years.

That old International was a favorite play pen for you for years. You'd play in there while I worked on the house and on the fruit trees out there in Falls City. It was one way to keep you from climbing up the ladders when I turned my back. There are pictures of you up on the roof when you were way too young to be up there.

This picture is from a trip back to Gramma and Grampa's about 1980-81. That's the trip that you made the footprint at Gramma and Grampa's. I think Erin took a picture when she was here a few years ago.

We are planning on visiting spring - early summer even if Martha has to put me in a suitcase so I don't freak out about the plane. Sasha understands. Happy birthday and lots of love to you and your crew.