Let's Go to Paris!

Enter to win a trip to Paris on this blog:
 http://ohhappyday.com/2011/06/goes-to-paris 
Hey, someone has to win, right?

Happy Birthday, Craig!

I don't think there is a living son in law on earth that would happily let his in laws camp out with him for eight months.  Do you?  I mean really, eight months?  I will forever be grateful for his gracious and giving heart.  He is always wanting to help, comfort, bandage, feed and entertain anyone that walks through his doors.  I love you, Craig.  Happy Birthday!  You are fantastic.  And no, I won't stop it.

Welcom To LIberty, North Carolina!

After seeing cute Lucy sing away in her Kindergarten program we took most the day off to go to Liberty, North Carolina, to the semi annual antiques festival.

People hauling away their treasures!

It is held on a one hundred acre farm with 400 vendors from 25 states.  And to top it all off is the fantastic announcer lady with the thickest accent this side of Texas.  If someone was lost she would announce it.  If someone accidently dropped one of their banjo strings they just bought, she would announce it.  If it was somebody's birthday, she would announce it.  If someone lived in Greensboro and needed their just purchased outdoor furniture set transported there, she would announce it.  Fantastic

This was a  photograph from the 1800's.

This beauty almost jumped in our car.  It is a metal stool that is also a drying rack.  You can see the metal dowels pulled out on the left and stored in the middle when not is use. 

Sold.

See that smoke in the background?  Dixie Land BBQ!

Cars were everywhere on the 100 acres.

You know you want to join us in September, don't you!?

Happy Birthday, Father of Cohen!

There is nothing like the joy of having children.  And then there is nothing like the joy of watching your own children have children.  It is Ben's birthday today.  He's our baby, the biggest of our babies.  And what an amazing father he is.  I have seen a new side to him that I really like.  It was always there, that nurturing, gooing, being silly, hanging a baby upside down, tickling side.  He just needed Cohen here to do it.  Kurt said it best on our Monday night celebration of his birth, he is engaged.  His heart is right where it should be, with Olivia and Cohen!  Oh man.  Nothing better than that to make a mother happy.  I love you, you cute father, Ben!  Happy day.
I totally stole these images from Olivia's blog.  Thanks O!

Happy Birthday, Mother!

Mary Deane, front row right. 

  She would be 91 today. 

Wonder what she is doing.

Perhaps in charge of heavenly wardrobes.

Oh Happy Day, Olivia!

OLIVIA

I am still amazed at the birth of Cohen, your concentration, control, love, patience, sacrifice and desire to do it just right!  You have always had all those qualities so I shouldn't be at all surprised!

Thanks for joining our family and adding to our numbers.

Hope it is a happy day and filled with love!

Because I sure you!

Good Bye, Elizabeth!

Only Sixteen Years Without Him

This morning, as I held him tight, I told him I have only had 16 years without him.  And 16 years is way too many.  This is what he looked like then.  Can you blame me for falling in love with that, bell bottoms and all?

Happy birthday, tootsie!

Testimony for Pearl!

Pearl's baptism was yesterday.  She was nervous and excited!  Afterwords she said she felt good and warm.  Nothing better than that feeling--good and warm!  She has opened the door to return to her Heavenly Father.  To celebrate, I made a Book of Mormon cover with my testimony inside to make sure she always knows I believe.  And to remind her we will always be, the two of us!

Happy Birthday, LUCY!

Happy Birthday

LUCY!

You are SO cool!

I 

LOVE

YOU!

GRAMMA

A Day Late But With The Same Love

Happy Birthday, Ryan!

This photo was taken at the Incheon Airport

I love how Ryan is always up for a

traveling adventure!

I love how Ryan is such a 

Good Listener.

And

gets so excited

about what

You Say.

Much Love!

To You!

Happy Birthday, Pearl!

Sending my love to

Picture

Perfect

Pearl!

I Love YOU~

Gramma

Ivy's Eyes!

Ivy eating the famous Korea rice puff snacks!

Oh, those eyes!  Can't get enough of this girl!

Anyanghaseo!

Catie Bergeson, one of the dear sister missionaries from Korea popped in for a visit!  It was like we had been a part for a moment!  How we love her.

Ready

A Prayer in Spring

Robert Frost (1915)

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees. And make us happy in the darting bird That suddenly above the bees is heard, The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill, And off a blossom in mid air stands still. For this is love and nothing else is love, The which it is reserved for God above To sanctify to what far ends He will, But which it only needs that we fulfil.