Seated here between my mom’s two sisters is my gorgeous grandmother.
And today is her birthday!
Happy Birthday Grandma 
(From left: Uncle Len, Aunt Sandy, Grandma, Great-Grandma Marr, Grandpa, Aunt Donna, Uncle Mark)
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Today our favorite nephew turns THREE!
Happy Birthday Tommy! We love you
Today is the day that my friend Shannon must hop on the train that is taking the rest of us over the hill and down that slippery slope of forgetfulness, hair loss, achy joints and botox injections. Won’t it be fun?! Don’t worry Shannon, you’re not alone in this adventure.
Shannon is my friend from from high school that not only has the most incredible green eyes you will ever see, the girl can drive an automobile like no other. Back when I didn’t know the difference between the transmission and the radiator (hell, I didn’t even know I was supposed to put OIL IN THE ENGINE!) Shannon was saying things to me like, "Don’t ride the clutch. You’ll burn it out!" (What? Clutches can burn out?) and "Don’t shift yet. You need to blow that carbon out of the engine" (Yeah. Let me get right on that.)
She seriously was not a teenager. She was too smart to be one of us. She was really an intelligent, witty, seasoned 26 year old with an uncanny ability to parallel park hiding in a teenager’s body. On more than one occasion, when we needed to answer to a higher up (or two!) she was forced to sternly tell me "DO NOT SAY A WORD. Let me do all the talking," because she knew if I opened my big fat mouth, not only would all hell break loose, but we would end up with our bags packed and on the curb and our only saving grace would be our thumbs with which to hitch a ride to Hanalei where we would camp in the dry cave until the arrival of our 18th birthdays.
For this I am thankful.
Happy Birthday Shannon!
This is Bree with her friend Becca today after school. You can’t really tell, but Bree has her invisible braces on.
She’s supposed to wear her trays a minimum of 22 hours each day, but because they are invisible (hence the name Invisalign) I’m constantly asking her if she has them on. She thinks I’m paranoid and I probably am, but deservedly so. She just barely got them a month and a half ago and she has already broken the first tray and allowed the dog to chew up the second tray. Currently she is on the third tray and so help me if something happens to this one, I will totally tie her up and use my pliers to straighten her teeth.
"OH MY GOSH Janey, Will you please STOP FARTING?"
"Okay Bailey. [thinks for a second] But I don’t know how to stop farting."