I met him when he was 26 (I was 19) and now he’s 36! Time flies…
Saturday was Ben’s birthday and he had the traditional breakfast in bed and I made him his favorite omelet, well at least I think it is because I make it year after year and he hasn’t complained. True drew a little family picture to accompany the meal, but rest assured the rest of the family was drawn on the back of the card!
After Ben ate up his breakfast, it was gift opening time. The girls spent a lot of time this week preparing lots of little gifts for him. Most of them were drawn pictures and hair clips (they didn’t get the memo that boys don’t wear those). After Ben opened up his presents, they insisted on putting them in his hair, along with some feathers they wrapped up. It was quite the funny spectacle!
The rest of the day was pretty low key as our birthday plans for the birthday boy had to be changed because Brave was sick (she got sick Friday, but seemed better Saturday morning during breakfast, but as the day wore on she got worse). I took her in to see the doctor yesterday afternoon and turns out she has a chest infection in the early stages of pneumonia… my poor baby! She has been so miserable!!! Her fevers are pretty high and she is coughing up a storm. If you remember, please pray that she gets better!
Since we just stayed home, we did pretty boring things like Ben tried to get caught up on his work, clean the girls’ messy room, do loads and loads of laundry, and put away laundry. Though there were a few fun things like Ben and I had a quiet birthday dinner with his favorite food as I went to pick it up once the girls were in bed, I am almost done wrapping Christmas gifts and we finally (yes, finally) just started decorating for Christmas. We may be the last ones to start this year!
Christmas is almost here!!! I am so excited!!! Aren’t you? And Benny, your birthday adventure is coming soon (well, once Brave gets better)!!! We love you!!!
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We (we, as in I) put up the christmas tree last night!
aw this is so cute!!!! love the pics as always, ruby ellen!!
your girls are soo precious! & happy birthday to your man!
haha these pics are hilarious! happy birthday to your hubby!
Prayers for Soul! We rushed Audrey to urgent care last Tuesday due to a high fever that we couldn't bring down. Now, it's just a cold (snot galore and the nagging cough). I know we'd much rather be sick than see our babies suffer.
beautiful post.
I hope your daughter gets better.
we don't even have a christmas tree yet. yes, we are the last ones, i bet.
hope bravey gets better soon! see you tomorrow maybe. if you're not feeling up to it, we can reschedule. 🙂
how sweet! i think the little things can be better than elaborate birthday plans.
aww those pictures are precious!
praying Brave is better soon!
~Michele
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you met Ben when you were MY age? too weird… I think me and Andyman should be “official”… now!
My little girl got pneumonia when she 18 months old 🙁 It was so sad! I'll keep her in my prayers!
Nathaniel and I will be sure to include Brave in our prayers tonight… I hope she's feeling better today. I was sick all weekend too…it's going around!
That omelet looks incredible!!! The pictures cracked me up too, having grown up in a house with 3 girls, my Dad got the hair done too! 😉 I'm sure Ben will look back on it and have only good memories!
these pics are the best!!!! I love them!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BENNNNNNNN~!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday to Ben, and I'm praying for little Brave! I hope the sickies are gone quickly and that all the boring stuff is taken care of quickly so fun things can be done 🙂
love you guys!
i love that Ben and Soul are making the same face!