HAPPY BIRTHDAY TALIA!

Yes, I know I'm a day late on posting Talia's Birthday Blog! Talia THINKS this qualifies her for me folding her laundry for a year. Ha! No Way! 

It's been really fun looking at all your pictures Talia! It's so fun to have you for a friend and see you as a mom and watching your creative go where ever it needs to! You're very resourceful and talented. 

Wow! A few memories in these pics!  Not to detract from this Birthday Blog for Talia - but who's REAR is that in the purple pants and weird shirt! 

I hope these picture collages speak for themselves!

Happy Birthday Jeffrey David Carlsen!

Here's Jeff's hospital ID tag - matches mine! Guess that make's him official.  Born December 11, 1977 (that must make you 32-yep!). Sorry this post is a couple days late - my Internet was broken - dad discovered an unplugged connection today.

This is your great-grandmother - Grandma Lee.  She made a trip to see every baby I had.  She was so much fun to chat with and had a ton of patience.  Grandma was always a help - folded clothes especially - and was always "game" for a candy bar or a pop or whatever. She insisted on sleeping on the floor - on a white furry area rug we had - maybe you remember.  I felt so bad giving the "floor" to grandma then - but now, some of you may know that I'm a "floor sleeper" - last night in fact when I couldn't get to sleep until 4:00 am I finally quit working on the computer and went to the living room and slept on the floor - barely made it to church on time as I didn't wake up until nearly 8:00. 

I love this little "gernel" (Journal) entry.  Check out the detail work on the colors of the writing! You were destined to be a CPA with all this intense detail!

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We've always thought that Jeff "WALKED ON WATER" and here's proof! This was taken at "Mrs. Timmons" swimming pool in Sandy, UT during July of 1986. Very cool kid! Lately Jeff has been trying to fly over water - Diamond Lake 2009.

I discovered that I don't have many pictures of Jeff as an adult. How sad! I think when we get together as a group there's so much chaos that the pictures get taken by others besides dad and I, so I had to steal this pic off of Jeff and Julies blog. Julie claims that Jeff is an amazing dad - and I'm a believer! He's always been accomplished and interested in learning.  During his Senior year at Mead High School
he was chosen to perform in Tacoma at an All State performance.  He played bari sax.  This Thanksgiving Jeff's sax playing,  along with Sean on electric guitar and dad on base guitar- "jamming" - was the background for some crazy dancing and plenty of fun!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRACI! WE LOVE YOU!!

Traci's life started in Bozeman, Montana.  Here is a 4 generation picture with her mom, her grandmother, Donna McCann and her great-grandmother, Willa Lee.  Her grandmother is near the end of her life now, but it is certain that both grandmothers were in love with this little darling girl from the very beginning!

Traci has a part of her that is reticent - I think you can see it here.  Also, the sweet trust that is such a precious part of childhood.

 Traci is a decisive, willful person.  She is fun-loving and fun! Traci is smart! She served a mission in the (unmodernized area) of Bacolod, Philipines, learning to speak the native language of Tagolog.