A Progressive Happy Birthday Story

By Vic, Molly and Peter. And by Jenny, Chris and "the gang". Also by Joy, Jason and kids. And by Wendy & Pete. Also by Paul, Kristyn and the boys. And last but not least... Peggy.


Super Samson and the Birthday Surprise


Mild mannered Sam, the alter ego of Super Samson, relaxed on the couch anticipating his birthday cake--little did he suspect the surprises his super friends held in store.
Suddenly, Sam's super sensitive hearing honed in on the welcomed noise of the bakery truck quickly approaching his super house.
Not only could he hear the truck, he could super-sam-smell-it. Mmm....Sumptuous sultry [white] chocolate satin surprise.

Just before the truck turned into his neighborhood, his nemesis nephew Grant
threw a box of nails under the truck to keep all the scrumptious goodies for himself.
The truck careened out of control and headed for a group of kids crossing the street. The group just happen to be Jack, Allie, Thacker, Peter and all their siblings walking to the park. Jack and the others heard the truck coming but it was too late to move this caravan of cousins in time.

Super Samson could here the children screaming in panic. He sprang into action! Just before the bakery truck was about to smoosh the little ones into strawberry creme filling, Super Samson jumped in front of the truck and stopped it dead in it's tracks.
Nemesis Nephew Grant (or the NNG) was NOT happy! This was not going to be the end of his devious plan to intercept his sweet reward.

All the nieces and nephews cheered for Super Sam! He was their favorite super hero! Except for Grant- his dastardly plan was ruined! Super Sam knew just what to do! He used his super power of tickling to make Nemesis Nephew Grant laugh!
He laughed so hard his sides hurt! He laughed so hard his eyes watered! He laughed so hard, everyone laughed too! No one was mad at Nemesis Nephew Grant anymore cause they were all too happy!

But Sam was so caught up in the excitement that he almost forgot it was his birthday. There were only a few minutes left before his birthday came to an end and he still didn't have a cake with sparkly candles on top. How could he reach his full super strength without his super birthday cake? He knew he needed that cake, and pronto! He walked over to the mangled truck, and hoping to find a salvaged piece of his scrumptious cake, he opened the door and ...


And there it was. Tipped over on its side, but still intact, was the most decadent 23 1/2 tiered cake.
The cake would go down in history as the biggest and best cake the world had ever seen. Past, present, and future. Then suddenly something jumped out from behind the cake! It was all of Super Sams close friends and family. "Surprise!!!!" They all yelled.
Sam realized it had all been planned! NNG was in on the surprise! Sam was so happy to see all the people he loved there for him! They all proceeded to eat the cake with their hands (cause its more fun that way) and dance and sing long into the night.

Sam would remember it as the best birthday he ever had.

THE END

My pride and JOY

Hey, couldn't get on yesterday, but I wanted to wish Joy a happy birthday, too!
a very intelligent, thoughtful, fun and playful and kind sister.

Happy Birthday Sister

My favorite memory of Joy is when we created the J/P quadrathalon when she was staying with us one summer. We made shirts and mapped out the course. It was a lot of fun, and I still remember how much fun it was to spend so much time with her. That's probably my favorite memory of Joy. Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Joy!

One of my favorite memories about Joy is the time we lived with Candice. We were driving home real late one night and were sooo tired! We drove past a sign all lit up with flashing lights and it said "Exotic". Exotic dancers? Exotic women? No- exotic BIRDS! We laughed so hard! "You liiike? You Buuyyy? wraaa wraaa!" shaking our shoulders like exotic birds might. My sides hurt so bad! We were laughing so hard! We still laugh each time we remember that joke!

Joy's Joys

Wonderful Aunt
Great Lips
Great Legs
Great hair
Beautiful
Strong
Home Builder
Great Conversationalist
Strong Testimony
Natural Birther
Cook Extraordinaire
Spanish Speaking Fool
Thoughtful
Frugal Mugal
Knows how to have fun
Great Seester
Hard Worker



Undeserving Gingerbread House Wiener

Now go celebrate your birth! And thank ya mutha. We love you.

Happy birthday Joy

That picture made a blog appearance two years ago, but I love it so I'm posting it again. Joy, you are spunky, intelligent, sympathetic, creative, insightful, down to earth, a great mom, easy to talk to, are amazing at home construction projects, you grow your own tomatoes (and make killer roasted tomato soup), support your husband in a demanding calling and job, are inspiringly frugal (totally made up a word), athletic (and make up your own mini triathlons), AND have awesome non-seaweed hair. We love you to pieces and are SO glad we're in the same family!

Hope you have a great day Joy!

To the Joyster

Happy birthday to Joy! You've always been a great sister and I loved that people thought we were twins growing up. I hope you have a fantastic birthday, and in celebration of your big day I'm taking my kids to Legoland. They say thanks for having a birthday. :)

Love, Jenny

Good Grief

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Yay!

Yep, he's a Jackson!

Yes, folks, he's actually asleep. (At least he hasn't clogged our toilet yet.)

Look what I found in my back yard!

Can you see her? She's a beaut.

She was just sitting there looking at me in the kitchen today.

Who WOULDN'T do this?

I tried to upload this video, it didn't work. So just click here.

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A Painting!

Isn't this so good!? My good friend Annika, who is now my roommate painted me... and several other people for her senior show at UVU.

For the girl who has everything, we send Thack's love

Happy day of birth Miss Jennifer. You're the best. I'll never forget how you took us under your wing when we moved down to Mesa. What a lifesaver! You are one of the most others-centered people I've met. You constantly put others first in your life and are always more concerned with making everyone feeling comfortable and welcome. I love that and wish I could be more like that. Love you girl!

Happy Birthday Jenny

Here's to everyone's favorite oldest sister! Wish I could "box" you up and ship you to my house!!!

Happy birthday to the land of Le!

From the wee little one and fam.