happy valentines day jim...

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

Little friends...

Jim and Leah are both in my over-sized Pitt Panther night shirt! 

Bed-Buddies!!

Weekends were always fun when "The guys" could sleep over! They would put on pj's and pretend they were asleep, hoping that Jackie would leave Leah and Markie here to spend the night with Jimmy and Gabe! A three or four year old Jimmy came home from pre-school one afternoon a little dismayed. He said to me ..."did you know Leah was a girl?"...I answered "yes...didn't you?" He said "no!" I asked him 'what' he thought Leah was and he said "one of the guys!" I then asked how he knew Leah was a girl and he answered, "Hmmph! Look at her Hair!!" Sweet innocence!

The Dinosaur Cake!!!

Here it is...19 years later! The Dinosaur cake! Jim so loved dinosaurs...but then, what little boy didn't? The candles are "dinie"s" as well. When the kids were little, the candles had to be lit ump-teen times so every little person had a chance to blow them out. This would be Little Miss Leah's turn! I recall a time when I took the boys to Pizza Hut for lunch. Jim was 3 or 4 at the time and toted a bag full of mini-dinosaurs wherever we went. He was heart-broken when we accidentally left them on the table in Pizza Hut. I remember buying another pack of dinosaurs, running back to Pizza Hut and... the waitress gave them to Jimmy on our next little visit, as a gift from Pizza Hut. It worked...my little one was happy...

Birthdays & Balloon Games!

Ahh! What pure enjoyment from a few little balloons on that very special day! Happy Birthday to one of my little boys! Their expressions are priceless!!! 

Birthdays

One of Jim's birthdays that sticks out... is the year that Jimmy had the dinosaur cake. He wanted that cake SOOOO bad. All I remember is the cake. But I'm pretty sure Sha Sha made it. I also vaguely remember another cake with little army men. We always celebrated birthdays together growing up, and if there were balloons, our favorite game to play was "don't touch the ground"... it's one of the finest forms of entertainment

My other memory is of last year. It was Jan 31st at 11:55 p.m., and I sent Jim an IM saying... "happy birthday in 5 mins." He said "thanks you're the first!," and I replied, "of course, I'm the first, I'm your first friend"..... :-)

Eric is right... there are not enough words to express how much I miss you, and there are no words to describe how much I have and will always love you. happy birthday jim jim.

There are places I remember

all my life, though some have changed.

Some forever, not for better.

And some have gone, and some remain.

All these places have their moments

with lovers and friends I still can't recall.

Some are dead and some are living.

In my life I love them all.

But of all these friends and lovers,

there is no one compares with you.

And these memories lose their meaning

when I think of love as something new.

Though I know I'll never ever lose affection

for people and things that went before,

I know I'll often stop and think about them.

In my life I love you more.

~The Beatles