Happy Birthday to my DADDY (tomorrow)! :)

*Brandon's birthday is tomorrow, April 1st! But, tomorrow is an extra special Sunday (Palm Sunday), so this post is going up tonight!!!!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday to you!

 Happy Birthday to Daddy!!!!

 Happy Birthday to you!!!

 Daddy--I love you, and I am sooooo thankful for you!

 Thank you for singing to me!

 Thank you for helping me learn new things!!!

 Thank you for teaching me about all the different sports that are on that channel that you always have on. Mommy calls it Daddy's channel. I just like to watch the numbers in that box on the top! ;)

Thank you for always making me laugh!!!

 Thank you for always working at churches so that I can have stairs to climb! Oh, and so that lots and lots of people will love me, pray for me, and teach me about Jesus!

Thank you for teaching me to stick my tongue out. Mommy was thrilled about that one, but you just laughed! :)

 Thank you for reading to me--then and now!!!

There are soooooooo many reasons why I love you, Daddy! I wish that I could list them all. I hope that you have a very happy 31st birthday! I can count to 31! Maybe I will sing to you 31 times tomorrow! :) You are the best daddy in the whole wide world. Thank you for being MY Daddy!!!!

I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,
Avaree Grace Barton

P.S. Here are just a few of my favorite things that I learned from you...

To laugh every day.

 To walk all by myself!

 Touchdown!

 I am never alone. Somone is always holding my hand...

 ...and I want to be just like you one day, Daddy! :)

Mommy and I love you higher than the sky, and deeper than the ocean, and wider than the horizon, and back again. :)

Happy 31st birthday, tomorrow, Daddy! You were the best April Fool's gift ever!!!!!!!!!

WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful Bluebonnets

We have a beautiful hill about five minutes from our house that is just covered in bluebonnets. It is called Zion hill, and the very top of it is a cemetery that backs up to an old church that stood there in the 1850s. We went up there Saturday morning to take a few pictures, but I still wasn't moving very well, and couldn't even get on the ground to take pictures, so I want to go back!!! Here are just a few that I took while we were there! Enjoy!!!

This face cracks me up...

 She loves her daddy so much. He was already gone when she woke up this morning, and he wasn't home tonight either, so before prayers tonight she said, "Mommy, I go see my Brandon at church right now." (Everything has a "right now" at the end of it these days--ha!) :) It was so precious that I'm sure he wouldn't even mind that she called him Brandon.

 There is no doubt that she is a country girl at heart. ;)

love this one.

my favorite

Which one was your favorite?