a Birthday Roundup

Mark turned twelve when Jotham and I were out of the country 

so we celebrated a few days early with cake and family.

a few weeks later he went to the Jump zone with his friends and had a good time.

He has really hit a growth spurt. He is literally inches, almost a full head, taller than his friends.

We surprised Hyrum and celebrated his birthday 

with a S'mores cake and Grandparents a day early too.

That next weekend he had a big party down in the river bottoms with his friends.

Which I only got one picture of because we were having too much 

fun playing night games, enjoying the camp fire and super nachos.

 My birthday was next in the line up.

The beautiful flowers are from Jotham and 

 Loalee made me that amazingly gorgeous Hardanger, 

and I can't tell you how much happy it makes me!

Jotham made me pose for this picture because while I was out shopping with my mom that day at TJ Maxx, I found some wrinkle cream I wanted to try. This was not lost on Jotham. I bought wrinkle cream for myself on my 39th birthday. He thought it was very funny.

 We went out to dinner to celebrate.

 Hollie's b-day was next:

 We celebrated early in the day with a tea party.
(More on that later).

 

Followed by gifts, grandparents and cake that evening.

Jotham turned 41 a week later without any pictures to document the day.

But he sure was a little more than excited to set up
 his new tent that next Saturday, boy, howdy, I tell you!