Happy belated birthday Aunt Kris!!!

My Aunt Kris shares her birthday with St. Patrick's Day. Since we had not seen her in a long, long time, the kids and I decided we would go to her work and surprise her on her birthday. We had so much fun visiting with her (we probably stayed longer than we should since she was supposed to be working), but we were so glad that she let us hang out for a while!! We had so much fun meeting all her coworkers and getting an awesome tour of her work!!

Going back in time . . . I remember when I was younger, she was always the "FUN" Aunt (no offense to the rest of you). All the other aunts and uncles would be visiting with each other and she would be hanging out with all of us kids thining of clever ways to try to embarrass us or inventing fun games to keep us entertained. There was even one point when she had a bunch of us hormonal girl cousins come stay at her house for a week (certain times during this week got pretty ugly), but she found a way to make it so much fun, even though some of us were not getting along with each other!!

She is such an amazing example to me. She is so smart, beautiful, hilarious, independent, etc. Even though she has had some hard things come her way, she always seems to get through them stronger than ever!! I love you so much aunt Kris!! Thanks for always being such an example to me!! We love you so, so, so much!!