8!

Can it possibly be true? The phone rang in the middle of the night...it was snowing outside, the car wouldn't start, the other car was stuck in a snowbank...and my sister-in-law was in labor. A quick dash across town & then to the hospital, and a few hours later my nephew Gabriel was born. That's not the unbelievable part - the part I can't quite fathom is that it was EIGHT years ago!

The quiet baby sitting in his stroller and smiling through seminary classes...the laughing, giggling, crawling everywhere baby serving as mascot during quiz team practices...the easy-going guy whose grin spread across his face at the first notes of the VeggieTales theme song, before the "funny guys" ever showed up on screen. Alas, those days are gone, and my youngest nephew is now an 8 year old hockey-playing Boy Scout!

No, I don't have anything against color - but I didn't "convert" to digital completely until 2002 and almost of my pre-2005 pictures are archived on CDs (somewhere in my office that still isn't completely organized after moving last month).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GABE!

I love you & miss you bunches! - Aunt Becky