Today Cohen turns four. As usual it seems that time has flown by and our baby is definitely growing up. Today, as we promised him long ago, we took him to Build-A-Bear to pick out his very own stuffed animal. He picked out the groundhog and decided to name him Fire (with a nickname, ‘Trey’). [...]

It’s hard to believe but today is Keegan’s sixteenth birthday!  Wow.  I’m feeling old.  I’m sure I will feel suddenly much older and have even more gray hairs when he gets his driver’s license

Michele isn’t feeling well this a.m. so we won’t be going to church.  Keegan stayed overnight at a friend’s house to work on a big school project, so things around here are a bit more quiet than usual.  Today is my beautiful wife’s birthday! so that makes it an extra special day.
I’ve been watching a [...]

Happy 40th Birthday!  I love you and always will!Michele
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Here is a photo of me on my third birthday. I got a kick out of comparing it with Cohen’s photos on his third birthday. The birthday cake in this photo was made by my mother in the shape of a Holstein calf.

Here is a video of us singing happy birthday to Cohen. [Be patient; it may take awhile for the video to show up depending on your connection speed.] [qt:/wp-content/uploads/P1030185.MOV 320 256]

I just finished uploading some photos of Cohen’s birthday party, held yesterday evening (the album is at www.familymanlibrarian.com/photos/album/72157594532822151/Cohens_Third_Birthday.html). The overall theme was Superman. I will try to upload a short video clip of us singing Happy Birthday to him later.

It has taken me a long time but I finally uploaded a few photos from Cohen’s second birthday party in February to my Flickr account, including this one of him blowing out the candles from his birthday cake.

Today my brother, Dan, and sister, Debbie, who are twins, turn 40 years old. Amazing. I am the youngest of seven children (five boys and two girls; an eighth child, Donny, died when he was 18 months old). Dan and Debbie are the next youngest siblings. When we were kids, we [...]