The Ruby-girlfriend love, love, loved celebrating Emmy’s birthday….
She loved when Elizabeth and Liberty were rockin’ the jumps off the cement tables…
Ruby loved the sound of the waterfalls …and eating our breakfast we had made in the
exact spot we have done our annual breakfast in Letchworth State park for 36 years now…
{Different kids present, mom & dad now gone…but same tables…same BBQ pit…
same waterfall cascading nosily in the background…
same train tressel going over the falls}
She loved it all!
She loved when we were all laughing and playing tree tag…
and she really loved when Mommy carried her and together they were a team!
She loved listening to the giggles as Daddy kept pouring the water in the kids mouths from afar….
Ruby especially loved when we sang Happy Birthday to Emmy later in the day….
Ruby loved it all..
and it’s time to celebrate her birthday next….
Love love love that first picture of Ruby – so adorable!! What a fun family tradition. 🙂
What a beautiful day! Happy birthday!
What a special time for all of you…Sweet Ruby looks so happy and Emma is a beauty!
Wonderful family time! Glad to see all the smiles! 🙂
I went to Houghton College for one year many moons ago and I have so many great memories made in Letchworth State Park. 36 years surely holds priceless memories. Happy belated birthday to Emma who my 10 year old admires from afar. What a beautiful gift I can tell she is to your family and the children of Uganda.
Love from PA
Jennifer
All those smiles, making me smile!
LOVE. i really wish i could meet you and your family some day. :0)
Aaaww…. that first photo was so beautiful, but each and every one that followed also made me smile! What a fun trip!!!
oh it looks so beautiful there!!!!
And sending the most beautiful Emma, birthday wishes today!!! What an amazing young woman you are Emma!!!
May this year surround you with love and joy and endless blessings!
Gald it was such a sweet birthday for Emma! I love how you all ALWAYS have your own party!!!! So many wonderful family memories…you are all so precious!
Lovely to hear about Ruby's wonderful day at her sister's party. Personal experience, Karl, my cousin, tells us that really, in the end, only God is in control of healing. Man may have no reason to hope, but God. HOpeful and prayerful that her neural connections will keep on being made, that her brain might grow and regenerate and that Joy will be a part of her life. Maybe she can show us and the doctors something about resilience we could not have imagined.
Also – glad you noted the number of years on your breakfast – recognized the park from your past breakfasts – what a great tradition.
How did that Josh sneak in there?!?! I didn't see him in the picture of your packed van 🙂
Oh, how fun! How beautiful to see your Ruby laughing and filled with joy at celebrating her sister's birthday! What a treat for Emma. What special memories you are building for Emma to take with her to Uganda to put into her heart, too!
love,
janet and gang
What a wonderful place to spend a birthday. I spend my birthday in the fall at Letchworth every year.
I love Letchworth! SOOOO beautiful. I have a picture taken almost in that same spot. My great-great-great grandfather's portrait hangs in the museum there. I love Emma's hair too. Very cute! I will have to try that on my girls' hair. Ruby is such a treasure :-).
Looks like a great State Park…maybe I should visit it sometime. 🙂
I am a day late, but I would love to wish Emma a belated happy birthday. She is an inspiration to me!
And I truly enjoyed the pictures of your celebration!
What a great family picture at the end… Love hearing how Emma celebrated her birthday:) So so sweet and miraculous that this year Ruby will be celebrating her birthday with her forever family!
It is so beautiful to see Ruby smiling so big! Happy Birthday to Emma!
It is so beautiful to see Ruby smiling so big! Happy Birthday Emma!
Wonderful tradition! Beautiful pictures! Gorgeous family!!
Super sweet time!!
Umm, Ruby is growing into quite the sassy pants!!
Love all the pictures of D.W. You and your Precious Treasures! Cannot wait to be able to tell Ruby Grace Happy Birthday! Janet