"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Stealing from Mom's Computer

So, I've been at my mom's today and I realized I could steal some of her cute pictures. Our family goes for the joint birthday/socials when it comes to parties. These pictures are at Andy's welcoming party. We also did a cake with candles for anyone's birthday. Justin always thinks it's crazy because we re-light the candles so every child can blow out some candles of their own. I think it's a great tradition!

Year 2008 cousins.....



Having a turn at blowing.....


4 comments:

Mrs. Poff said...

I agree...it doesn't hurt to have multiple blowing out of candles.

Laura said...

it's better than multiple cakes...

Kassie said...

It does make you wonder though, what makes blowing out the candles so thrilling? Getting a wish, pyromania, firefighting?

The Johnson's said...

Yea, I like the tradition, but it's just not the same without the old hens telling us to pull our hair back or without Bud & Joe trying to blow the candles out first! We need some more boys in the mix. Maybe Ely, Eric, Cody and Andy will add some spice!?