Happy birthday, Dennis!

To the best manager I've ever had, a loving husband to Katherine and loving father to five wonderful kids, and a man of God who lives his life to serve Him, HAPPY <insert new age, calculated based on the year mentioned below> BIRTHDAY!!!

Favorite memories:

• Dinner at Jimmy John's in Minneapolis on a business trip when we first discovered our shared faith
• Waffleology nights of food, fun, fellowship, and faith
• Favorite travel dinner of yogurt, Twizzlers, and Cracker Jacks
• Family dinners when I become a Smith for the night
• Moving the couch out of my apartment

• Planning the first internship program at NMD in the span of what seemed like a week!
• Cinnamon, butternut squash, and yogurt (some of our shared favs)

We are all so thankful to share life with you! Here are some other cool but much less noteworthy things that happened in 1963:

• Gas was 29 cents per gallon (seriously?!) - Today: $3.469
• Average price of a new car was $3,233.00 - Today: ~$15,000
• A loaf of bread cost 22 cents - Today: $2.58
• President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
• Beatles released "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
• Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" speech
• AT&T introduces touch tone phones
• Zip codes were implemented in the U.S.
• Michael Jordan was born on February 17th...and Johnny Depp was born on June 6th :)

So, as you can see, a few other things happened in 1963, but by far the most important was the day of YOUR birth!

Happy birthday, Dennis! I "smith" you!

Allyson

Happy Birthday, Allyson Livengood!

So, if you finally got permission to visit the site that is dedicated to your most awesome name, then it must be....your birthday!

I guess you know that a lot of very cool things happened in 1985, right?  Check it out:

REALLY COOL THINGS FROM 1985:

- the first mobile phone call was made in the UK
- a guy named Boris Becker became the youngest winner (at age 17) to win the men's Wimbledon championship
- President Reagan (remember him?) and Soviet Leader Gorbachev met for the first time in Switzerland
- Compact Discs (CD's) were first introduced and sold in the U.S.
- Microsoft introduced Windows 1.0 (wow, the beginning of the end)
- Back to the Future was one of the top movies of the year, but so was Rambo:  First Blood II (one of my personal faves : )
- a gallon of gasoline was about $1.20, and a first-class stamp was 20 cents. 
- Nintendo makes it U.S. debut

Wow.  I know that is mind-blowing stuff.  But not really as cool as what happened on September 30th, 1985.  So, this site is dedicated to the best thing that happened to the world in 1985 ~ Allyson Livengood!.

We love you, Allyson!

DennisKatherineAbbyFordHannahRachelOlivia


P.S. - we promise to give you all the passwords and let you take over the blog cockpit at iamLivengood.com : )  And, Dennis promises to give you a crash-course on Twitter next week.

P.S.S. - and lest you forget the importance of cake: