Tundra Topics: Esther's 3rd Birthday -- November 19

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Esther's 3rd Birthday -- November 19

Wearing the hat her grandmother Melba made for her birthday

It was just what a 3rd birthday should be: all kinds of tooth-rotting goodies, a bunch of cousins to help celebrate, and a couple special surprises. Oh, and don't forget the frazzled mom who was under the table by the time everyone left. :) Just thought you might like to see some pictures of the celebration.

Esther wearing her birthday crown, holding her birthday wand, next to her homeade cakes, with cousin Sheila.

The festivities

Here are the five girl Josephs born within 6 months of each other: Patricia, Alicia, Sheila, Esther, Heather

Esther with her Dad on her birthday

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Hi,

I'm LOVING your blog!! My name is Deb Dahl...my husband, Bill Taylor, and I taught in Hooper Bay from 1980-1990. Is Esther's dad Roy Joseph? If so, please tell him that his Kindergarten and First Grade teacher, Deb Dahl, says HI...all the way from Saudi Arabia!!

Do you know Patrick Lake? Chris Hale? Ernie Smith? George Ford? Albina Joe? Please send along our regards and tell them...and anyone else who remembers us...that we would LOVE to hear from them. Our email is...dahltaylor@yahoo.com.

Masalama....Arabic for goodbye.; May 14, 2008 at 4:37 AM

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Esther with Auntie Erin at the big spitting fountains at Millenium Park, Downtown Chicago

Pictures of Summer & Fall 2006 Travels

We had a great summer of travel -- which extended into a great fall of travel after the tragic burning of Hooper Bay school gave us a few more months of vacation. Esther was 1 and a half this summer, turning 2 just a few days after we returned to Hooper Bay in November of 2006. Below are pictures going backwards from our last trip of the fall (to visit Sunny in California), our road trip to homecoming at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC, our train trip through Pennsylvania, New York, and Toronto, to our visit with Ya-Ya in Indiana, and our first campout ever in California!

Warren Wilson College Homecoming Celebration, October 2006

Esther and I took a ride on the draft horse wagon, around the farm valley. It was so great to take this road trip down to North Carolina and visit old friends (some of whom had never met Esther!) and show Esther all these places special to my heart. It was kind of wild to me that it was all new for her, that since she is so familiar to me and so are these places, that it was strange that she wouldn't know these places already. It was kind of wild to think of myself, without her, in college years earlier. It's really hard to imagine my life or myself without her, now. :)