can I be the person they want me to be for them?

Let us keep you small

Last weekend we celebrated Elise Richmond's 2nd birthday.

She is unique as she was the last munchkin that will come out of the Vasectomy Club of 2010.

The small one so to speak...ha! not even close.

I watched her hang lock step with the "schoolers" that day. Going down the slide, swimming with dad, watching movies with her extended brothers & sisters.

We all sang, as we have 20 times before, celebrating this little one's life with a collective "cha-cha Cheeto" at the end of Happy Birthday. Jeri even ate cake. It was a good day.

We snapped the usual paparazzi photog & enjoyed the habitual "Adult Swim".

This weekend was another ah-ha moment for me. Our babies aren't babies anymore. They are children.

Strong willed, vocal, sharp, intense, loving, funny

They all have pieces of one another. They present themselves like a standard Gilbert Mormon family. The older ones taking leader roles as needed. Acting so much like brother & sister, as parents, we freely manage the closest child as our own.

We talked misty eyed of days past & of what the future holds.
What would we be doing in 3 years, 5 years, 10 years?

I hope this.

I hope with all my heart my family continues to grow with these families.

Smooch

3.5 months

No more.

Reading you tonight makes me search for that part of me I have lost.

Life is harder, busier, more responsibility - all moving in the right direction but victory does not come without battle.

I need you now more than ever.

Make the time

Respect the time

Enjoy the blissful peace your mind feels with creating an outlet.