Day 172

Happy 12th Birthday Sophie!

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown

Day 167

Sophie's birthday party

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

~George Harrison

Day 94

Happy Easter!!

Sophie and Piper hunting for eggs

Those who hated Jesus thought they had put an end to Him forever when the cruel spikes pierced His quivering flesh and the cross was raised on Calvary. But this was the Son of God, with whose power they did not reckon. Through His death came the Resurrection and the assurance of eternal life.

~President Gordon B. Hinckley, May 1996

Day 89

cousins

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
~Gail Lumet Buckley

Day 48

Sophie...my beautiful niece

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.

~Author Unknown