Celebrating my friend Heather's birthday Japanese style

Alexia and I have a mutual friend Heather. She is married to Edwin who is a worship leader at OHOP and also a very good friend of mine. I play keys on his Saturday night prayer set.

Heather and Edwin invited Alexia and I to go out for Japenese to celebrate Heather's birthday! Also joining us was Adam and Christiana who were home from IHOP for the holiday's and Jenny,Ome and their baby Genesis.

Me and Genesis! I had fun watching her react to all the "fire and noise"Heather and Edwin are expecting their first baby this spring.Where is Genesis?
There she is :-)

Happy Birthday Heather! Alexia and I love you very much!

Sierra's 9th Birthday

Sierra's birthday fell on a Sunday this year. Sunday birthday's always are difficult in our house because of church and not getting home until late afternoon. So, we decided to celebrate on Saturday instead. Sierra had a few friends over on Friday night and Saturday.

She loved her cupcake "cake"!

Our weather has been crazy this winter. One day it is 82 and then next day it is 55. She lucked out and it was a beautiful 80 degree day so she and her friend went swimming.Blow out the candles and make a wish!Sitting pretty at on her birthday chair. She was anxious to open her presents.This year she had one thing in mind for birthday presents and that was boots. Here is what her "breakfast" present was. The lunch present.
The dinner present.

She was so excited to get her boots. She has seen Alexia wearing all her boots and she wanted to be just like her big sister. Happy Birthday Sierra! We love you!

Another Teenager In The House!!!!

Landon turned 13 on December 12th. I can't believe we now have one child in his 20's and three others in their teens. Thank goodness Sierra still has four more years before she hits the teen years. Landon opened his "breakfast present" after breakfast.Then a bunch of Landon's friends came over for a small party. They played football mostly and then it was time for cake.

Happy 13th Birthday Landon!
I had a feeling things were going to get messy so I moved them to the basketball court.Oh No !!!!!!!!!!!!!

And it did get messy!
There went the cake - sure wasn't expecting that - but I guess that's teenagers for you.He opened his "lunch" present after lunch :-)Carlos and I took him out for dinner.

"Mom, it's my birthday, please no pictures"

It's hard to believe he is already a teenager.My little Landon Tommy not so little anymore.

I am not sure where the rest of the kids were so he had us to himself.

After dinner the last present was opened. Happy Birthday Landon! We love you!

Our Sweet Ava is "2" today!

Two years ago today our sweet Ava Young was born. I was blessed to have been in all three of Lisa (my best friends) births. Ava was the last one but sweet Sophia is on her way in March 09.She was so excited to blow out her candles."Hey guys - those are my candles!!!!" "Now mom?""OK - here I go!""Blow out the candles and make a wish"
Ava is amazing!

She is independent but oh so loving!

She has the most joyful personality!

She has such a free spirit!

She has mind of her own!

She is our adorable Ava and we love her so much!Kaitlyn the big sister!

Christian the big brother - as you can see he loved the cake :-)Happy Birthday Ava! Papa and Ebby love you so much!

Our "other" blessings!!

Happy 16th Birthday Taylor

Taylor turned 16 today (Monday the 3rd) Wow! I still am amazed at how fast time goes. It seems like we were just celebrating his 6 year birthday! Now, instead of playing with cars he is driving them LOL. Taylor is our "true middle child". He is stuck right in between Jordan, Alexia and then Landon and Sierra. Taylor has blossomed into a great young man. He is playing drums, playing keys and singing in our prayer room. He is also leading worship on some Sunday's for our children.

Taylor had a wonderful "surprise birthday present". He found out that he won homecoming for the Freshman class. He is following in his mother's footsteps. I was crowned Homecoming Queen my senior year.Happy Birthday Taylor! You have made us proud!