Sunday - October 18

Today is Ashleigh's birthday. In October we have five birthdays in our family. (Six when you count Jonathan our grandson) We had our family birthday party today. It was so wonderfully crazy here. All the kids came and Noah made homemade meatballs and spaghetti. My mom taught him this summer how do make this recipe and he loves cooking so that was his birthday present to all the kids. I love it when the kids are creative with their gift giving. We had a huge salad and for dessert we had cake and ice cream of course and apple pie. I think everyone had a great time. David had a fire going in the fire pit outside. It was just cold enough to really enjoy it. Today mattered because I realize how special everyone is as we gather together to celebrate the birth of five of the children!