Today we celebrated Ella's5thbirthday (though she is very technical and says she won't be 5 until Monday). We were lucky in that many of the invitees were neighborhood friends and we had a few brave souls that traveled in this horrible weather (sorry Kelly that it took awhile to figure out you were stuck!).
Here is the Happy Birthday singing - sorry it's fuzzy but I had to edit it
and here is a link to the Blizzard and Birthday pictures (click the picture below - right click to open in a new window)
It's all the news - really. They've had special coverage on TV ALL morning because we're under a Blizzard advisory and have gotten 11 or so inches so far.
Justin's been out shoveling because today is also Ella's birthday party...figures!
For our far away families to keep up with the gang, and so that I can look back at all the fun of life with 3 kids :) This is my rememberer. We are: Mason (20), Ella (12), Silas (9), Dad/Justin (old), Mom/Christa (older)
Words to Live by...
“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less” Anna Quindlen (Loud and Clear, 2004)
Mom of three, wife, sister, friend. Love being with family and friends, having a cup of coffee with sunrise and a glass of wine with sunset. Life is Good.