Double Birthday!

Today is my Mom's 82nd b-day and my niece Lauren's 2nd b-day, Happy Birthday girls! We celebrated my Mom's b-day a week ago at my sister Susan's house. That's what these pix are from. I don't have any digital pix of Lauren because my sister-in-law is still really good about sending real pix in the mail.

Ros, John, Mom, Ella & Mitchell

Happy Birthday Sammy!!

My nephew Sam turns 24 today. He moved to Florida last year after he was accepted to golf pro school. He's proof that people live in Orlando that don't work for The Rat. Happy Birthday Sam and watch out for those attack-fish at the beach!

"And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga...gunga -- gunga lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."

Happy Birthday Errin!!

Today is my niece Errin's 28th birthday. She is also my one and only God-daughter and she in turn is Pete's God-mother. Errin teaches high school English in St. Paul MN. Since I didn't have any recent pix of her, her students were nice enough to send me this pix of her lecturing in class. BTW, in her honor our dryer decided to go on vacation, the motor seized up and the soonest the part will arrive is Friday.

Happy Birthday Peter!!

Today is Petey's 12th b-day, his last year as a tween. We celebrated it yesterday because he is at hockey practice right now and Jim had to leave for London. We went for the traditional sushi dinner and brought our 5th child along (JD). Pete then had JD & his buddy Cory stay the night. After all the kids were well sugared up on cake & ice cream, the 4 big boys (Pete, JD, Cory & Mitch) then spent the night playing shinny hockey and video games. Petey may be growing up fast, but he'll always be my baby boy. I love you Petey!