Emily's Birthday

Emily turned 13 on September 10th :D  She spent hours in the kitchen making homemade cheesecake for her birthday celebration!  Emily is in 7th grade this year - she got a violin for her birthday, which she has been practicing along with piano.  Emily's favorite thing to do is hold babies, which she does at every possible opportunity. :) 

Use Punctuation

I asked Megan, "Why can't I find this book on Librivox?" Megan quickly finds it for me, then says "Punctuation matters." She goes to the white board and writes:
Let's eat, Grandma!
Let's eat Grandma!
Punctuation saves lives.

:-)  Emily

Robbie's Birthday

Robbie turned 18 in August!  He had his traditional apple pie ... no cake mix for him!  :)  

Robbie's continuing with CollegePlus!, he now has 76 credits, and is planning to transfer to Liberty University next semester, where he'll take courses online to complete his degree.  He's been working this summer as a salesman for Cutco, and loves doing that.

In other new about Robbie, he has an appointment this week with an electrophysicist tomorrow ... they moved his appointment up two weeks, which we were very grateful for.  He's continued to have problems with his heart, and hopefully after this appointment we will have a better idea of the next steps. 

Robbie loves math ... he's working on statistics right now, and he's tutored several of his friends for Math CLEPs.  

Megan's Birthday

Yes, I'm posting birthdays on a 5-month delay. :P  Mom says she still wants the pictures posted on the blog. ;)  I'm going through all the pictures on my computer trying to get updated photos for my grandparent's picture frames, and figured I might as well blog them at the same time. :)  -Megan

On my birthday, I was actually in Pennsylvania with a group of CollegePlus! students.  Robbie very graciously allowed me to go with him to the get-together, and we had an amazing time!  I had the most epic 20th birthday party ever, complete with a card signed by the whole group and a cake.  This cake was my brothers idea, half of it was designed for Robbie's friend Aaron, and the other half was designed for me.  My half was supposed to say, 'Congratulations on surviving 17 years with Robbie'.  What it actually said:

:D

One of my favorite parts of my birthday was the church service on Sunday morning ... 35 young adults studying the Bible, encouraging one another, and singing praises on the Pennsylvania hillside.  It was beautiful!

Since we were little, Mom started having our pictures taken on our birthdays.  Emily took these pictures ... I'm wearing a dress that my friend Anna made for me. :)

Lydia's phone conversation with her Daddy

"Hi Dad!
Um, just walking around talkin on the phone.
We already went for a mile walk.
But now I'm inside my house, not outside my house.
Uh-huh.
Yup.
I think so.
Okay.
Yup, love you too!"