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Happy Birthday!

Many of you know that my family has a busy time in April with birthdays! I like to call it "Birthday week!"



  • Yesterday was my Mama's birthday and tomorrow is my Daddy's birthday. I am doing a post today to cover both and it is perfect that it is a day between both! God has blessed me with the best parents ever created. (Although, let's be honest, and I am shamelessly biased. Zach also happens to think that he was blessed with the best mother-in-law and father-in-law ever as well.) They have taught me so many things, and I know they aren't finished yet. They are the example of the parents I want Zach and I to be someday. I want us to always love our children unconditionally even when they color on the walls (like Suzanne) or cut their baby sister's curls off (Okay, that one was me.) They have never let me live in the assumption that life is all easy (even though my childhood pretty much was) and they have taught me to work hard for the things I want. They took me to church and founded their family on faith in Jesus. I can only pray and hope that our children will follow in the same footsteps as my siblings and I did when we all trusted Jesus to be our Savior and Lord. I am a product of my parents' labor.

I know they are proud of me and I know they know how much I am thankful for them and love them. But it never hurts to reiterate, does it? Mama and Daddy, I love you both and hope that each of your birthdays are your best ever.



Love, Your #1 (as in firstborn), blue-eyed, blonde haired, daughter. (And Zach, your favorite son-in-law!)

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