TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO CELEBRATE

my brother's birthday.

Ivon is

 talented and creative

loving, caring, giving

funny

lovingly known as Ivy

and

an awesome brother and uncle

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IVON!

WE LOVE YOU!!

SOMEONE IS TURNING 40 TODAY!

It's not me - it's my brother Ivon's birthday.

This photo is an oldie but goodie {- i love it -} and pretty much sums up his relationship with my man clan.
He's an awesome uncle, a wonderful brother and loving son.  He knows the best random facts, is a hard worker, smart and is just down right rad.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IVY!

WE LOVE YOU!!

THREE BIRTHDAY SONGS,

three birthday cakes, three birthday wishes blowing out a total of 98 blazing candles.We had a very festive evening celebrating these birthdays. So much fun!

IT'S A WONDERFUL DAY TO

celebrate my brother's birthday.

1976 Pinetamare, Italy on our apartment balcony

Happy birthday Ivon! We love you!!

THEY SEE HIM ONCE A WEEK

Sometimes he is sporting gifts or treats.
He plays with them.
My wee boys think Uncle Ivon is rad.

We are so blessed that our boys have awesome uncles.

PHOTO BOOTH

We've been looking through old photos and treasures. I love this photo booth photo!

When you find the chiclets teeth, you've found me.

1978 Germany
Dad, Grandpa Young, Michael (baby), Me, Ivon

IT'S A GREAT DAY TO

celebrate Ivon's birthday!

Ivon is uber talented, loving, thoughtful, a hard worker, interesting, a wonderful brother, an awesome cheesecake loving uncle, full of surprises, smart, kind and fun.

WE LOVE YOU IVY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

I ASKED MY BROTHER AND SISTER

to paint me a picture of our grandparents. My brother did a woodburning inspired by this photo of our grandfather.

My sister did a painting inspired after this photo of our grandmother.

I love how this wall is coming together.

PIGEONS

I remember Ivon and I used to LOVE feeding the pigeons when we lived in England.
We used to feed them often in Hyde Park by the Peter Pan statue....

Florence, Italy 1978

I love how focused we are, not realizing people are watching us - we don't have a care in the world...

IVON HAD TO WORK ON HIS BIRTHDAY

so we celebrated it tonight with his favorite - cheesecake with blueberry topping....

Our family has a tradition of singing Happy Birthday off key and loud.

In the past it's gotten too loud with some screaming, which thankfully we've 86'd.

Lach hasn't forgotten the loudness and was preparing as soon as the candles were being lit.

It was a fun birthday evening!

IT'S A GREAT DAY TO

celebrate Ivon's birthday....

Ivon and I on our patio in Italy in 1975

Ivon is kind, talented, dependable, caring, thoughtful, loving, interesting, giving, an awesome brother and a fantabulous uncle (and he puts up with me taking creative pictures, over and over and over and over again).
He is fun loving and I think he's a cross between Charlie Harper and Barney Stinson and even reminds me a little of Miguel.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IVY!!

AS MY MAN CLAN SAYS

Uncle Ivon R-O-C-K-S.
They got some fun, wild uncle time tonight at Grandma and Grandpa's house.....

And left high on Uncle overload.

It was hilarious....

MY BROTHER IVON

is an incredible uncle and an absolutely incredible artist and graphic designer.

Some of his artwork is on his myspace account. These are two of my favorite that he has on there. They were done on Photoshop, completely from scratch. He amazes me!

To see more of his work, click here.

SATURDAY MORNING MY

brother came over to show us his new car...

He took us for a ride and the boys thought it was the best thing EVER. It was their first time in a convertible.

They are dreaming of their first cars now, convertibles no less...

Larry J was really excited because he got the first ride and he is SUPER excited because he only has three years and counting, until he can drive...

Ivon is a great uncle and has always been "so cool" in the boy's eyes, but now he has topped the charts!