Summer Birthday Celebration | 2022

 

On the final Sunday of July, we hosted our family's annual 

Summer Birthday Celebration!

We celebrated TEN summer birthdays, but we paid a little extra attention to one that was a milestone year. Our son Ryan is turning 40 this week!

🎉 Our party game was a little True-False with facts about Ryan.

🎉 We gave him a funny card. 

🎉 And we all gave him a special gift: an Irish Aran sweater. He has wanted such a sweater since he studied in Ireland one summer and visited the Aran Islands, but as a poor college student, a sweater was not in the budget. (He did manage to purchase a Claddagh engagement ring for Sarah while in Ireland, but that's another story. ♥)

 

I wish I had a better photo, but this one captured Ryan's joy at receiving his sweater!

Ryan told us the legend of the Irish cable knit sweaters, and then he shared this clip from the late Rich Mullins. It is laced with humor, but there is a message within the tale. 

Our Ryan has always been a joy to us! He is thoughtful, kind, gentle, hard-working, sensitive, talented, honest, and hilarious! He is a loving husband and father, and he faithfully follows Jesus! 

The father of a righteous child has great joy;
a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.
(Proverbs 23:34) 

 

Then all ten of us were celebrated with singing and blowing out candles and ice cream cake!

There are a couple of other milestone birthdays. Maddie is 18 this year, and Owen is 16!

(Baby K is not a summer baby, but she will officially belong to our family this week, so no one was going to remove her from the celebration table!)

And I will close this happy post with a bit of total sweetness!