A Pound of Thoughts

This time of year (from late May to October) is a big time for birthdays.  As I reported earlier, we had birthday celebrations last week for my niece, Hannah.  Last month we celebrated for Andrew, Shawn, and Katie, as well as my brother Sandy.

Tonight, we are gathering at a local Mexican restaurant to celebrate the birthdays of two of my sisters, Peg and Dragon Fairy.  I will be taking my camera, so I’ll get some good pictures tonight.  I just don’t know what I’ll order - chimichangas or chilaquiles??

Afterwards, we are going to Dragon Fairy’s house to eat cake and ice cream.  I’ll get some pictures then, too.

I just hope I don’t eat too much.  Until later…

Update (2:08 a.m. Sunday morning):

This is the restaurant where we ate.

This is what I ordered - Chilaquiles Locos.  Doesn’t it look delicious?

This is Dragon Fairy with her sombrero.

This is Peggy with her sombrero.

I’ll post more pictures later.  Or if you want, go here to look at them.

July 21st was my niece’s birthday, and I haven’t uploaded any of the photos to Flickr yet.  So, here’s some select photos that I think are the best and summarize the evening.

Here’s a picture of some of my family members and my sister-in-law’s family members gathering around her bar, celebrating that little blonde in the front’s birthday.

Here’s Hannah’s birthday cake, which is actually a big chocolate chip cookie with a “Hello Kitty” theme.

Here’s the smiling birthday girl!

Here’s the “Three Musketeer” cousins, all born the same year - 1993.  Alyssa, born January 30; Daniel, born October 5; and Katie, born July 16.  They make quite a team (especially when they wrestle their uncle!)

Now here’s two beautiful ladies - Dragon Fairy and my wife Lucy Lu.

Here’s my newest nephew, Alexander, and his Dad Steve.  Man, he’s gotten a lot more hair since I last saw him!

Here’s Hannah opening some presents.

 Hannah reading her birthday card from us.

Here’s a proud papa filming his middle child’s present-opening ceremony.

I think that’s all I’m going to post here. I’ll load these and all the rest onto Flickr.

I have been looking all over the internet for a picture of a birthday cake for my sister, and I think I’ve finally found one on Flickr!  So, KK, here ya go!

Today is one of my sisters’ birthday.  She is 37 years old today.  And since it is her birthday, I decided that I would post the headlines of what was going on the day she was born.  Read below the fold for the info.

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Well, our trip here is almost done, and it’s barely begun. K and I arrived here late Thursday night, after stopping in Mobile to grab a bite at Romano’s Macaroni Grill. We’re staying at The Beach Club in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Unfortunately, we have to leave tomorrow morning to resume everyday life. But, I thought I’d include you in a little bit of our action yesterday.

We got up yesterday morning and enjoyed wonderful breakfast buffet that included everything from grits and eggs to biscuits with sawmill gravy and muffins. We were so full it was unbelievable. Then after that we decided to take a little trip down to the beach.

This is our path to the beach. Straight ahead from our cottage is the clubhouse, with the condo towers on either side.

My wife, her brother, his wife, and our nephew Noah, as well as my wife’s parents, and myself of course, are staying in a three-bedroom, three-bath cottage. This an outside view of our cottage:

This is the living area. It’s very nice. There’s a high definition TV in every room:

Here’s the kitchen:

And here’s the hot tub:

Here’s a view of the hot tub and the grill. The grill is awesome. That’s where I spent last night grilling hot dogs and hamburgers, as well as some brats. Tonight I’ll be grillin’ porkchops and steaks.

And last but not least, here’s a picture of the beach. It was a little windy and cool yesterday; maybe today won’t be as bad.

Don’t you wish you were here? I guess I need to be going - I need to go marinate the steaks and porkchops, and then head to the beach! Until tomorrow!

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Here’s my nephew Alexander…He just can’t get enough of a good finger.

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Isn’t he funny?

In my daily readings book, today’s topics is winning spiritual battles.   It states, "God’s man cannot win his battles without boundaries."  It really got me thinking.  It is a very true statement.  We, as men, need to come up with a "battle plan", if you will, complete with putting on the "Armor of God".  I will be honest and say that I have lost some battles, strictly because I wasn’t prepared.  But, here’s a list from my daily reading of what boundaries we could set for ourselves.  You ready?  Here we go:

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I’m going to start this post by saying, I have not done these steps like I should.  Reading this passage in Every Day for Every Man has stirred a desire for a renewal in my heart.  I want to be this kind of man.  I know that the road will be hard, because the devil does not want the family to succeed.  But, I resolve to become the leader of the home as God intended.

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Today is my niece Julia’s 5th birthday!  Happy Birthday, sweetheart!  I hope your daddy and mama gets you everything you want!

I think she is going to have her a tea party today with her friends…It’s kind of a tradition - her big sister Hannah had one when she turned five.

Here’s a slide show of my nephew Noah Wallace’s first birthday, which we celebrated on March 25.  I’ll be adding all of these photos to my photo album later.