Once he was 7 years old

Yesterday we celebrated Alex's 7th birthday. The boys were born 4 yrs and 8 days a part so we try to make things special for them by having individual family parties followed by a larger gathering a month later. Lex picked Olive Garden as the site for his birthday lunch so Mo, Houston, Gigi, Pops, Brock, Brooke, Tate, Nani, Adam, Mandy, and I all met for a tomato sauce and garlic covered bash. The man of the hour cleaned his plate and also cleaned up with a ton of Pokemon stuff. He even managed to have his wish for birthday snow somehow granted with a light dusting of the white stuff on the ground when he woke up.

There was a lot that went wrong this weekend, but we got Sunday right. Alex was all smiles while being celebrated by some of his favorite people. After all is said and done it's those family relationships that mater the most in life after of course a strong relationship with God. People come in and out of your life and you think that they will always be there, but when the rubber meets the road it's your family that prove they are the ones that will always have your back. You may treat each other like dirt sometimes, but you always find a way to love each other in spite of everyone's flaws.