Birthday Blessings, Part One

I intended to write more tonight, but oh my, look at the time! So I'll simply say that I had a superb birthday, made special by many things, including the wonderful comments and emails that I received from so many friends. Thank you!

Another great part of my birthday was the beautiful weather yesterday (76 degrees...perfect for a girl born in '76!), and the fun time my boys and I had as we played outside yesterday afternoon.

~ Josiah, the mighty hunter

~ David swinging...he looks so big in that little baby swing...can't believe how much he's grown since last summer!

~ it was so beautiful that, for the first time, I laid Tobin out on the grass on this special blanket that my mother made for us when Josiah was a baby...Tobin had fun kicking and punching the air while I jumped on our neighbors' trampoline...that's right, I put aside all my dignity and jumped like a wild woman on that thing...such fun! and good exercise, too...I highly recommend it!...fortunately, Tobin is too little to take pictures and the neighbor girls are Old Order Mennonite and don't know how to use a camera, so there was no one to preserve the evidence of my gleeful jumping :)