day eight...birthday wishes

happy birthday rose - hope you enjoy your special day!! gotta love this picture of the sippel children on christmas 1966 (faith somehow found the time to date each picture and often wrote the exact age of each child on the back...sometimes jotting down little comments about the occasion)...note the stockings on the mantel...i not only have steves stocking but each year there was an addition to the sippel family, faith would create a stocking for them on that christmas...there where several years where she was very busy cutting and sewing (ie, 2002 there were 4 grandchildren born that year...colin/willa/daniel/bridget) our handmade stockings are all hung, waiting for santa...hopefully i'll remember to get a couple pictures of the boys under them...love traditions that span generation to generation...love new traditions...heres to yours in 2007...peace