Celebrating Mark

 It's hard to believe that this  young man is now 19 years old...Mark is a wonderful,  caring adult who loves his family

A blast from the past... Mark turns 8!

Mark and Sadie make a beautiful couple

Poor guy has to light his own candles

We celebrate you, Mark.

May all you wishes and dreams come true. 

Snowstorm Harper is a family affair

 This poor son of mine was living in Hawaii 2 weeks ago... 

 Welcome home, Matt!!

 Mark knows how to dress for the weather

 Putting chains on the little tractor

 Luke helping shovel us out

 It's alot of work.

Grace and Carson have the perfect view.

 This sums it up... snowstorm Harper

 Poor Pat snowblowed at 3am, 7 am and now it's noon... probably we will need one more round of clean up... it's still snowing.

Little did I know that I was being spied on while I measured and took pictures of the snow depth.

13 inches in the backyard..

21 inches in the front yard drift

Matt is melting.... 

There's a lot of choices here...A homemade man's tie

 I did some fun sewing toady...It was the first tie I sewed for Mark. (He has to wear a tie to school every day.)

 It turned out great.  The proportions and length turned out perfectly. 

I can see the future, and in the future I see a tie for every season and occasion!

I used Simplicity pattern #4726

 Luke showing off the tie I made today. (for Mark)

 Making these ties is addictive

The underside of the tie...it shows the handsewing.

Beat the Doldrums--Day 7---These faces

 These faces can beat the doldrums....and make me smile.

 And kudos to the photo bomber from about 50 years ago.....me!

Mark is 16 Years Old

 My Irish boy and his new Newsboy hat.

 The duck call candle blow-out

 Mark and Luke with an Oreo cake

 Becky serenading us all. 

 The "final four"  Grace-14, Mark-16, Luke-10 and Kim-9

 Partners in crime

 Kimberly, Becky and Dan

 My Irish  boys and a few photo bombers

 Right before Dan almost killed Mark with a Poi ball

 These are very cool...

Grace-14

Smile, Mark!!!

I took 2 1/2 years but we made it!!

 What a transformation!!!

 Momma made him a big bowl of popcorn...the first he had in years....I added a lot of butter.  I hope he doesn't get sick!

 What a handsome young man!

The Great Egg Drop Plop

Science rules....even on Christmas vacation!!

Mark is 15! How did that happen??

 What a wonderful young man Mark has become.

 The singing of the song....

 He is a wonderful young man but also a total goof!

 Some serious building is going to be going on around here. 

(That Gyrobot thing....it can walk on a string strung across the living room...totally cool)

 You CAN give the gift of underwear to certain people.

Busily building.