Well, its Tana's Birthday

Tana is the last one of our children to have a birthday since I started this blog. This means that it is picture post time. Now you might think that since Kyle is the baby in the family and very spoiled and that his spotlight was pretty big, that Tana's page would not be as big. Well guess again. It is so big that I had to break it up into two posts. I just went wild scanning old photos. This all means that next year, there will probably not be a big post when your birthdays come up; maybe just a couple. I will have to think of new things to do. This is Tana as a new born. It was time to clean Tana up in the sink.

She liked to hang around a lot, as all of her siblings (sometimes they would be taking a vertical nap).

Here is Tana in the cradle that I made. Each of our children and grand children have slept in this heirloom.

Tana liked to play in the park. Do you notice any resemblance here?

Fill-r-up please. I am getting ready for a nap.

It is another fun bath.

Hey, do you mind? I am on the phone with my friend.

Tana's first birthday and cake.

This is all that is left of it. Mmmmmm. That was good.

Mom I am practicing to be a big girl.

Is it Mary or Bo-Peep? I don't know but it looks like it would taste really good.

Me and dirt got along really well. I think that is a head lock I got my brother in when he tried to take some of my dirt.

I also like the beach.

Hi, I am the Easter Bunny for Halloween.

This is birthday number three. Where is the top of my head? I am excited, really I am.

It is fall at St. Anthony Park and I am enjoying the colors.

Number four. Man, every cake is different. My mom is sure talented.

Do you like my new glasses. They are almost Harry Potter-ish.

Time is just flying by. Tana is five with a Cookie-Monster cake.

Tana is leaving on her first day at Palmer Lake school. We didn't have cool backpacks like Joseph and Lorelei have.

On the way to the Mississippi River along the Minnehaha Creek, Tana found a feather and pretended to be a statue and posed as we walked by.

Birthday number seven. Still another kind of cake. Mom you can just make a regular layer cake . My eighth birthday with Kirstin, Kelly, Brett and Kyle.

This is a very important job in the Earle Brown Day Parade that goes by our house each year. She wan announcing her school.

My first perm. What a beaut! I like the effect of the reflective picture.

The Spotlight continues

See, I wasn't kidding. This is part two of the spotlight on Tana. This is the end of it! This is birthday number nine. We will jump to birthday number 12. Mom only made a layer cake. I guess she got tired of making all those fancy ones, or maybe she thinks that I am too old.

Tana had a short stint in the nunnery with a couple of other nuns.

My mom and dad made me do dishes. Don't you dare take a pic..... Actually I was very good at it.Another birthday, another plain cake and Tana is holding the knife and not smiling. Watch out! A happier day with Kelly sitting on a wolf. Tana was in a lot of school activities and she was always Front And Center. Can you find Tana?

I am off to Montana to be a Nanny for Uncle John and Aunt Kathy's kids. Actually, I just wanted to get away and work on my arts and crafts. Those kids took care of themselves, after all it was Summer.

I have lost count. Is this another birthday just a regular layer cake?

On her Sweet 16th, Tana got tired of having cake and opted for a pumpkin pie. Scrumptious!

Tana was front and center again in Hello Dolly at the high school.

And again. See, she is always out in front. I think that she just wanted every one to be able to see her.

This was at the Jr. Prom. What is she trying to be?

Tana and fellow seniors at a boat party on Lake Minnetonka. Nobody else got a boat party. So I guess Tana is really the spoiled one. Sorry Kyle.

Graduation day at Ricks College in Rexberg, Idaho. It was a two year collage but Tana was there for three years. Now some of you might be thinking that she didn't do very well and had to do a year over, but you are wrong. She just wanted to take more classes and her cousin Erik was there.

Best Buds Forever. Tana and Sarah. They are dressed up for something.

During one of the Earle Brown Days parades, Tana got several friends and Kyle to dance in the parade (just in front of our house though). A lot of Tana's "Front And Center" stuff rubbed off on Kyle.

Then she met Braden and they decided to get marred. So we did some practice pictures. Hmmmm!

Standing in the Alcove.

The Bride.

I won't let you fall. I will let go in a bit and you can finish your walk by yourself.

The lovely couple.

There is the result of the Hmmmmmm! picture. It's another Hmmmmmm!

I'll catch you. Wait, I guess I should be looking the other way. One picture I didn't get is when Braden picked up one of the ornamental cigarette ash collector gizmo and was going to swing it like a baseball bat. But the bottom came off and made a big mess. We left rather fast.

My best photo of the new couple.