Birthdays

September is a busy month for birthdays in our family.  Tonight we celebrated Auntie Suzanne's birthday with cake and ice cream for dinner.  We are going to have dinner for dessert.

On the 18th, Eve will have a birthday, then me (Kathryn) on the 20th, followed by Malinda on the 26th.  Looks like we will have a lot of cake in the coming weeks.  It's funny, we go the first 9 months of the year without birthday cake (Matthew doesn't like cake, so we have cookies or brownies on his birthday) and then, at the end of the year, we have more cake than we could want in such a short time.

In other news, one of our cousins is coming to visit the US from England.  We are so excited and hope she can make it to see us out here in California.  We are just waiting to hear what her plans are.  Suzanne has met her once, and I never have.  As children, we would love to hear about our cousins in England and what they were doing.  Our moms would write to each other and we loved to hear parts of the letters read to us.  We always wished we could meet them and see them frequently, like our friends could do with their cousins.  As the years went on, we didn't keep up as much as we should have.  Now that we're all grown it will be so great to have at least the chance to meet Elizabeth, and we hope it's the start of keeping in touch with that part of our family on our own.

I found this picture of Joshua on the camera, and have no idea who took it.  But it was so cute that I couldn't resist putting it in with this entry.  Most likely it was Eve, because she wants to be a photographer when she grows up, so she is constantly taking pictures of things and people.