HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELLY ANN

THIRTY ONE YEARS AGO, on Jan. 29th, Kelly Coverstone was born, weighing 6 lbs. 13 oz. and 20" long. She was born in Portland, Oregon. It was 5 weeks later, that Jim and I added a middle name - Kelly Ann Coverstone. Changing her birth certificate was no small task. Here she is at 1 day old. She was the most alert newborn, we'd ever seen.
She was a beautiful little girl. When strangers would tell her how pretty she was, she would glare and scowl at them. To this day, she still glares at you when she is not pleased.

This is the glare.

Kelly has always been and still is a daddy's girl.
At 2 years old, Kelly became a big sister. Kelly was always very helpful (except that time when Crystal was 2 years old and Kelly cut Crystal's hair and neatly put her hair in the trash can).

Kelly and Crystal, 2 1/2 and 9 months.

At 4 years and 9 months, Kelly became a big sister again.

She was an active little girl, always busy. Here she is at 4 1/2 , Baton Timber Twirler.
Wonder Woman was her idol. This was her Wonder Woman outfit. She loved taking swim lessons from Ilynn in the summer. Every year Ilynn would take these underwater shots of the kids.

We went camping every summer and she loved it. She enjoyed the outdoors and "daddy time".

She really loved these glasses from Disneyland. We all went for the first time when she was a Junior in high school.
We had a few pets over the years. A couple of cats, a dog and some gerbils. Murphy was Kelly's gerbil. Of course Crystal had to have a gerbil too. The pet shop guy assured me that both gerbils were boys. As you can see by our growing gerbil population, Murphy was really Murphette.

Kelly took piano lessons for 5 years. She was very good. Crystal and her played duets. Kelly even accompanied the school choir. She also sang in the choir in middle school and high school.
She was a cheerleader for three years in high school. We really enjoyed going to all the games. This is 10th grade.
11th grade.

The football team went to State in her Senior year and a new football stadium was erected. Before that happened, the Rebels had to play all their football games at their arch rival's football stadium when West was at "away games". The last 2 years, Kelly and Crystal were cheerleaders at 2 different high schools. Kelly-South Albany Rebels and Crystal-West Albany Bulldogs

This always made the civil war games lots of fun. Kelly graduated from South Albany in 1996.
Over the years she has had all kinds of hairdos. Long hair . . .
short hair . . . and foo foo hair.

She got her accounting degree from Linn Benton Community College. It has served her well, he has had many occupations using those skills. She is now a beautiful young woman, a great wife, a super mom AND a year older. Happy 31st birthday to a wonderful daughter that we love very much!! mom and dad.

If you'd like, you can tell Kelly happy birthday at skrubk@hotmail.com . But whatever you do, don't ask her why she doesn't like llamas.