Sunday, January 25, 2009

25 one day late

3 days old

It seems perfectly appropriate that I wish Aaron a happy birthday one day late
After all... he also was one day late.

Twenty five years.
My son is twenty five.
Whew. It seems like I should feel old... well, older than I do feel

2 months in his blessing outfit

It's amazing how life works. I remember putting away some food about a month before I was due and looking at the expiration date...
My pregnancy was due to "expire" before the food was.
I think that's when it really hit me that I wasn't going to be pregnant forever and that this baby tucked so tightly inside me wiggling around was really going to be born.

Raising Aaron has been a joyful journey.
He was always an inquisitive child wanting to know the how, why, when, where and how come about everything.
Halloween 1986
Norman Oklahoma 1998ish

He has always had a great love for his siblings and felt from early on a great sense of responsibility to set a good example and guide them.


With dad on Gooseberry Mesa

A friend of mine was looking at a newborn baby boy and said,
"It's hard to believe looking at him now that he will be a man someday"

It's amazing how quickly the time passes.
Now my first baby is a man with a wife and baby of his own on the way.

I could say a lot more but pretty soon this will be two days late and that just won't do.

Love you Aaron!
Happy Birthday

3 comments:

Tracy said...

Happy Birthday to Aaron! And oh wow, Karen, time does fly, doesn't it? Loved the picture of you, the new mom. I always liked looking at the row of pictures of your family in your house here in OK. Loved seeing you and your family grow up. Maybe I'll have a hall long enough for that now. ;)

Kami Su said...

I can't get over the picture of you holding Aaron, you can't possibly be old enough to have a child.

Christie said...

I LOVE the halloween picture. And in it AMY looks JUST like Amy! Hey...nice new look to the blog...when can I have a lesson on how to do that? And why are you still in school? I thought you'd graduated?