hap-hap-happpy!

Happy Birthday to our Handsome, Future Son/Brother-in-Law!

We love you, Joe- we're glad you'll be officially joining our family very soon!

Love, Sarah and Everyone Else

to the love birds

joyeux anniversaire!

to the couple who taught us how to love

<3

happy 31 years and may there be many, many more!

-Sarah

happy birthday, Daddy!

love, your beautifully different family

and new additions:

much much love, 

This Just In!

I would like to report that it is officially Dad and Sarah's birth month.

Dad would like hugs, kisses, phone calls, video chats, and sentimental cards.

I (Sarah) would like Express clothes, money, video chats, adoration, and funny cards. and jewelry.

On second thought, Dad would probably appreciate a funny card too. I have not talked with him about any of this, but I'm assuming he doesn't mind my advertising his special day. Or saying what he would like.

Sarah out.

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So, I (Laura) just read the new title to this blog as "The house is a wreck." Is this a subliminal message?

; )

Also, there is still time to leave comments for my birthday month!!

HELLO!!!!!?!?!!

In about an hour I (Amy Laura Wells Arnold) will turn 24 for the first time ever.

It will be the last time I will ever turn 24.

I thought this blog should have some tribute to my twenty-fourth birthday.

Please feel free to leave comments throughout the month of January for me.

The End.

Hmmm...

What if before we spoke our thoughts, we had to type in a couple of words that were written in a different font that had kind of a swirly look... would that help?

oh yeah...

lovely young one!

happy birthday to the rock star!

we are alive because of you.

we are loved because of you.

we are happy because of you.

you have fed, nurtured, taught, carried,

led, encouraged, disciplined, enjoyed us.

we love you!

mark, sarah & patrick, laura & john, suz, summy, bennye, bruno and etc.

3:00 AM...nobody home on facebook

Really people, sleep is waaayyyy overrated. Do you have any idea how much time you can waste in the middle of the night and never get interrupted? It is really a euphoric state of being. No one online, NOTHING on TV, no phone calls and all the time in the world to be uninterrupted. Maybe it is just the sheer joy of completeing a thought or having nothing calling you to a task but then there is three hours from now that will beckon me to coffee, another day and the continued sensationalizing of hurricanes and pentacostals.

Where the roles start changing and the lines get blurred.

Nothing like your children being all over the place...
Sarah Beth and Patrick in the middle of Gustav eating peanut butter and jelly, drinking the water they bought for their own personal hurricane party.
Laura and John somewhere in the states of Georgia and Alabama
Suzannah somewhere in Prattville...(sorry Alan but she really wanted to see his family and he is a pretty good guy)
Summer somewhere...in the house
Corey somewhere in Romania...and i haven't heard a word!
My Momma...right here with me.

Cut The CARP!

Who are your parents anyway???
Would you girls ACT YOUR AGE!!!

happppyyyyy birrttthhhddaaayyyy!!

happy birthday to the cutest 17 year old in the world!

What To Do With A Summer

Go out taking pictures of random Willy T's restautants, then take a crash course in Photoshop so that you can remove the light pole, fix the awning, clean the parking lot, remove the trucks back end and the garbage can by the front door (yuck) and turn the sky to blue : )



Watch a lot of sunsets!


Eat Fried bisquits and Fried Pickles! ... come on, it's the south!

Share a huge desert with your friends!

Look at your picture eating the huge desert and A. don't eat anything like that again
or B. take more lessons in photoshop!


Stare at all your old girl friends graying hair!
(the whole time thinking, "man, they're getting old.")


Spend an incredible week at the lake with your children!!

Not Kidding! They are incredible!
So is Mr. Wells (he is the one I am holding) : )








Hang out with a childhood friend that you haven't seen
in too many years!




This summer we have done many things...but today, well today... Today we are just...




Going to take a ride ...





Open the door...It's hot out here!!! XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

For the Record

This is a picture from the Lake Vacation, as it was named. What an amazing time we had.

two wonderful years, yes?

happy anniversary to the cutest blondes in the world!

Where do we go from here Mark?

This is a typical look inside the brains of the children who got married. Sorry, girls, for all the mess ups and stumbling around. We somehow found our way but our hope for you is that you will take all we have attempted to pour into you and kick it up a notch! You are already so amazing. Your lives serve to confirm the one thing worth remembering. God is good. 

Have you ever seen such a precious little girl? 

Coming Back Into View

Hello Friends, sorry I have been away so long. I'm back now. Ever have one of those times when it dawns on you how incredibly good God is? I have. .

Make a Smilebox photobook

Twenty four oceans, twenty-four skies....

Happiest

24th Birthday,
Sarah!!!!
Here's to all of your many facets; ) May there be many more wonderful days to come!

We love you!! Happy Birthday!