Happy Birthday Rae

Our girl turned fourteen on Thursday and I can't believe how time has flown. I know every parent feels like this - you blink and your kids are older. Kelly and I were just looking at a movie he made for his media class entitled "A Day in The Life". It basically just showed a normal, average day in 2002 for Kelly. It was so fun and strange to see how little our kids were, and how much our lives have changed. Makes me interested to see what is to come.
Anyway, Rae had a great birthday! Notice her new hair do! Highlights for the growing up girl. She is really getting older. Wow.
On her birthday, we had a message left on our answering machine by a teacher at Rae's Middle School. She didn't know it was Rae's birthday, she just called to compliment Rae on her behavior at school. She said what a respectful, fun and kind girl she is. She also really wanted to tell us how nice Rae is to students who have a harder time fitting into some social aspects of school. I guess that talk Grama Chris gives at the beginning of the year has been sinking in! Way to go Rae! Thank you Grama!
We had Grama Chris, Grama Marge and the other birthday - Grampa Barry - over for dinner on Rae's b-day. I made Rae her traditional un-cooked birthday cake, and Grampa's tradional carrot cake. Yum -O!! We had such a fun time being with them. Brannen sure wished that Grampa would have stayed all night long and played catch with him until the sun came up! He had a great time, as we all did.

Another year down! Time sure does fly!