Monday, January 18, 2010

A BUSY MONTH FOR BIRTHDAYS .......

But then ... which month isn't in this family? lol
We started out the New Year with a brand new Birthday! On January 4th, out newest grandchild .... numero 24 .... was born!
TRISTAN LaVERN STEWART
I just wish I had been able to be there when he made his "Grand Debue"
He was born on the day the Bronco's won the Fiesta Bowl .... (AGAIN) so mom was in "True Bronco" form ... and attire, when he entered the world!
Here he is ! He is so beautiful! It's amazing how much you can love someone you've never even met!
Our next Birthday was for our son Phillip. I called and e-mailed him and he got a special email from his dad ..... all the way from Iraq! It would be wonderful to actually be able to celebrate a birthday with him but it's not in the cards at this time. We love Phillip and want him to know how much we miss being able to spend time with him but it's hard to let him know it.
Our 3rd Birthday for the month was Michelle! We met at Stillman and Michelle's on Sunday the 1oth to celebrate with her. She is so photogenic. Here she is with the boys and Jayden was pretty fascinated with the candles on the cakes.
Michelle requested cheesecake and what Michelle wants ....... Stillman makes sure Michelle gets!
Right down to the cake!
Opening her gifts! It was a Great Party!

Our 4th Birthday was for Nikki who turned 6! She wanted a "Princess" cake. There is a glass slipper on the cake and she decorated it herself.

It's always so much fun for the little ones to open their gifts and they always have a lot of help from their cousins. Amazingly, I got a picture of Nikki opening it on her own. Her daddy was on the web cam watching her so her mommy made sure she was visible!

And I couldn't resist the picture of Jack in the middle of the wrapping paper! He was in his glory and so darn cute!!
Our last party for the month was last night for Deedra. She just turned 27 (as the cake tells it all) ..............

We had a great turn out! A lot of the Butterfields and the Norton's were there to help her celebrate. We started by opening gifts .....

Tony and I gave her the "Apple if her eye" .....haha as well as a necklace and a journal.

Gaya and Deedra with a wonderful "sentiment" that the Butterfields gave her!
I LOVE IT !!!!
Gramma and Grandpa gave her a book.
Happy reading Deed! It looks like a good one. Gramma always picks out some good reads!

And Nikki made her mother a beautiful flower! What a sweetheart!
We have a little reprieve in February (only two) ... lol
It will give us time to get geared up for another bunch in March!
We Love it!!
Hope you ALL had wonderful birthdays!

5 comments:

Stillman and Michelle said...

Thanks LaVerne!

Heather said...

and Jon gives me a hard time for wanting to plan the month our next kid is born in! busy busy busy! the cake looked good mom - you can come celebrate mine with me this year, and i'll let you make the cake - ha ha. isn't that nice of me!? :0)

Curtis and Deedra said...

It has been a great month so far. Yay for Tristan being born and joining the January group of birthdays. I had a great time at my party last night. The only thing that could have made it better is if Curtis was here to join the fun. But only a few more months. Yay!

Heather said...

I meant to tell you that you look really pretty in the picture with Deedra! :0)

CPTA said...

you girls always look good in pictures. I'm surprised that mine turned out ok... I guess that's coz I was sporting BSU!!! Heather's blanket sure helped though... =)