14

Today we celebrate Nathanael's 14th birthday. We love you son. We are so proud of the leader you are becoming. You are such a blessing to our family. We love you. Happy birthday! 

Mom

Today's also a big day for our family because it's my moms birthday! I also realized we need to take more pictures of the two of us together! Happy birthday mom. I love you. 

19 Years

Or 228 months as our friend Tom would say. Happy anniversary to my beautiful wife. We sure have seen some things, haven't we? I think Dave sums things up pretty well:  

Wanna pack your bags, Something small

Take what you need and we disappear

Without a trace we'll be gone, gone

The moon and the stars can follow the car

and then when we get to the ocean

We gonna take a boat to the end of the world

All the way to the end of the world

Oh, and when the kids are old enough

We're gonna teach them to fly

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby

You and me together yes, yes [x2]

You and I, we're not tied to the ground

Not falling but rising like rolling around

Eyes closed above the rooftops

Eyes closed, we're gonna spin through the stars

Our arms wide as the sky

We gonna ride the blue all the way to the end of the world

To the end of the world

Oh, and when the kids are old enough

We're gonna teach them to fly

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby

You and me together yes, yes

We can always look back at what we did

All these memories of you and me baby

But right now it's you and me forever girl

And you know we could do better than anything that we did

You know that you and me, we could do anything

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby

You and me together yeah, yeah

Two of us together, we could do anything, baby

You and me together yeah, yeah

Two of us together yeah, yeah

Two of us together, we could do anything, baby

First Day

A rather non-traditional first day of school picture, but I'll work with it. Yesterday began the 2016-17 school year for our group. Yes, August 8. When you take every Friday off, you have to pay the piper sometime. Noah begins his SENIOR year, Andrew starts is sophomore year, Nathanael his 8th and sister joins the boys at the middle school as a newly minted 6th grader. Jennifer also begins anew, moving from 6th grade Lit/Comp to 7th and 8th grade history. Here we go! 

6th Grade!

Here she comes! Sarabeth had a half day on Friday for her first day of school. She was greeted outside the middle school by the entire 5th grade team, who were waving signs and cheering on the Class of 2023. Must have been a busy day, because she came home and took a 2 hour nap. The boys and Jen report Monday!