Happy Birthday to our Valentines Surprise!

Goodbye age seven.........................................

Eight years ago today, about a month before his due date, Benjamin Daniel Flowers entered the world. When I began hard labor, the Dr. discovered that he was breech and after a few unsuccessful attempts to turn him in the womb, an emergency c-section was performed. Ben made Valentines day by a half hour since he was born at 11:30 p.m. I had a difficult pregnancy with him as I began to have pre-labor symptoms at only 28 weeks along. I was put on strict bedrest that lasted for 9 weeks! Believe me, when I say that I was more than ready to get him here after laying around for so long! We were so happy to welcome a sweet baby boy into our home and hearts!

Since his birthday fell on a Sunday, we had a family party for him Fri. and he had a friend party yesterday. We let our kids have a friend party every other year and this is the year.......three more to go! Abby has already told me she wants her party theme to be princess/Barbie ;o) May will not get here quick enough for her!LOL!!

Benjamin~

On your 8th birthday, Daddy and Mommy want you to know how much we love you and how proud we are of the sweet, polite little boy that you are becoming! It was very thoughtful of you to choose foods that everyone liked for your birthday dinner today instead of just the ones you wanted. And you are doing very well with letting your sisters, "the ladies" go first!

God has given you an amazing talent for drawing and cartooning and a good sense of humor to go along with it! (Even though, it gets you into trouble at times!) We look forward to see how God is going to direct and work in your life as you obey and be the little boy that he wants you to be! We love you!

Love,

Daddy & Mommy

Hello age 8!

Some of his presents from G-pa and G-ma Hirschy

His Transformers DQ icecream cake....Yum!


Uncle Mark & Aunt Rachel were not able to make it

Friday night so they stopped by Sat. and gave Ben his

presents. Carpet skates and a parachute man. He has

been enjoying both!

Ben chose a Transformers theme for his party.

Becca printed out and designed the name tags ;o)

Guests grinning from the party table!


Here he is with another Transformers cake, this time from Walmart ;o)

I used to make them, but, well......who has time?!!

Birthday boy with all his party guests :o)

Ben recieved 3 new Transformers to

add to his collection....he was a happy boy!

Back in snowy,FREEZING Indiana!

Okay, Florida was not the warmest we have ever felt; however, it was MUCH warmer than Indiana! BRRRR! And now we are in the middle of a MAJOR winter storm that could dump 8-12 inches on us before it is all over with! The snow is fun to watch as it falls and very pretty but afterwards it is such a pain to deal with from very slippery walks to nasty slushy roads! They are actually calling for BLIZZARD-LIKE conditions by Wed. So, I plan on staying right here in my warm and cozy house until it is over! ( I typed this last week and we DID get a LOT of snow!)

Thank-you for everyone's prayers for our traveling last week. We were in nasty weather in Kentucky, Tenn. and part of Alabama. They had just had a snowstorm and we drove thru after and the roads were terrible! We passed SEVERAL cars in the ditch and a LOT of wrecks! We were very close to being in a wreck ourselves but God protected and my husband did an awesome job of driving and got us safely to Pensacola. We praise God for His protection! The funeral was not easy and it was hard to say Goodbye to Grandpa George and even harder to say goodbye to family members when we left on Wed. morning. :o( We took lots of pics and here they are......

On January 28th, Danny turned 36 and here he is with

his Pineapple Upside-Down cake that I made him. He also

requested homemade cream puffs too.....he got them ;o)

Here is my love with our 4 blessings. I am very

BLESSED! ;o)

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Traveling to Florida:

Ben and Caleb all excited and ready to ride.....

Becca was not qute as excited to be up so early!

This was a unusual and often seen sight as we

traveled through the South. Icicles on the mountain.

The ice looked very pretty on the trees.

A really nice park that we stopped at in Alabama.

Becca helping Caleb enjoy the slide....he LOVED the park!

Ben doing his monkey imitation! LOL!

They all had fun and we all enjoyed the much-needed

rest from riding and driving!

One exhausted sweet baby boy! Love his crossed piggies!

Abby and Caleb enjoying the swing in G-pa and G-ma's big backyard

in Florida.

Caleb looked sweet in this chair at

the funeral home.

The 3 Flowers brothers. L-R Danny,Robert and

Charles.

Becca and Abby with their cousin, Samantha.

All 5 Flowers cousins.

This pic shows you how much Caleb

is getting into things! He has ATE more

markers and crayons and even chalk than

I care to think about! Thank goodness for NON-Toxic!

He was 'decorating' himself with Abby's markers in G-pa

and G-ma's living room!