Happy Birthday Joshua!

Happy Birthday to my son Joshua! He is 14 years old today. He is becoming a wonderful, amazing young man and I am very proud of him. He had a simple family party at home with just his brother and sister and a couple of friends.










Here he is wearing the fedora he asked for. He is adorable!

Opening the Nerf Vulcan machine gun he so badly wanted. He was "so happy".
















The three gangsters getting ready to rumble.














There ensued a huge Nerf battle......














.....lines were drawn.....sides were taken.....














.....even the young ones were enlisted....










.....everyone got in on the action.....














A hot and sweaty post-battle birthday boy. What a fun time.

Happy Birthday Joshua!

Happy 13TH Birthday Joshua!

Today is Joshua's 13TH birthday. He is staying at his dad's for the next two weeks and I miss him terribly. I can't believe I now have THREE teenagers in the house! It makes life interesting to say the least.:)

Joshua has grown a lot over the past year. (This photo is from last summer, I realize that I don't have any new ones) His hair is down just past his shoulders now and he has that "wizened" teenager look about him. He is a great kid, with a good head on his shoulders. He is very caring and loving. His family means a lot to him and he feels deeply when someone in the family is in pain. He is my "baby" boy. He always will be although, eventually, I suppose I will be looking up at him, the way I already do his older brother. We will celebrate Josh's birthday when he returns from the visit with his dad, so look for party pics then. Happy birthday, Joshua. I love the young man you are becoming as much as I love the little boy you were.