Happy Birthday, Emily!

Today is your birthday!  Do you remember all the details of your birth?  I do – here are the stats: We go to the hospital at 5 AM on July 26, Emily is born at 2:17, weighs 6 lbs, 13 ½ oz and is 20 ½ “ long, she comes home on July 30.

Exciting stuff, right?  Have a great day of celebrating.  In keeping with reviewing the past, here are highlights of July from 1982, 1992 and 2002.  Enjoy.

1982:  We go to the movie ‘ET’.  Emily starts walking the day after her 1^st birthday.

1992:   Emily and Adam take tennis lessons. We go to NE. We go to the Omaha zoo (part of Laurie’s 20 year HS reunion) and to Oceans of Fun & Worlds of Fun in KC. We also go to Lindsborg, KS. While we are gone, Jazz ate M.C. Hampster. Emily has a fancy birthday party and has Adam and Scott serve the guests.  We go to Grisanti's.

2002:  We go to Nebraska. Cousin Lillian from Michigan is there. Larry's Dad has hip replacement surgery. We drive Laurie’s parents Oldsmobile back to Denver to sell.  Laurie and Adam cut down 4 aspen trees in the back yard.Adam moves to NY and begins working at Lehman Brothers.  A hummingbird flies in the cabin and I catch it in a bag. Emily enjoys a birthday lunch at the Brown Palace (Sen. Bob Kerry is there too) and a birthday dinner at Sevilla.  Em & Rosie see Kenny Chesney at Frontier Days.

Here are some highlights of world events from 2002 and 2007, courtesy of Dave Berry:

July, 2002
Two pilots scheduled to fly an America West plane from Miami to Phoenix are ordered from the cockpit at Miami International Airport and found to be drunk. The pilots aroused suspicions when they made a preflight announcement asking if any passenger ''happens to have a corkscrew.''
In financial news, Congress, addressing the corporate accounting scandals, approves the death penalty for anybody convicted of exercising a stock option. As the market plunges 128,500 points, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, in a move that fails to bolster investor confidence, announces that from now on he wants to be paid in gold.
In sports, baseball immortal Ted Williams dies. His son says the body will be frozen, so it can be revived in the future. A court approves this plan, on the condition that the son be frozen at the same time, so he can be revived in the future to explain everything to his dad. We wish.
In other science news, archaeologists announce that they have discovered a skull that is believed to be more than six million years old. Tests show that the skull does, indeed, belong to Sen. Strom Thurmond.
In political news, the U.S. House of Representatives votes to expel Rep. James Traficant (D-Sopranos) after a House Ethics Committee investigation shows that the thing on his head is a diseased weasel that has eaten nearly 80 percent of his brain. The vote to expel him is 420-1, with the lone dissenting vote coming from . . . Iraq.
Speaking of victims, Michael Jackson tells a New York rally that -- we are not making this up -- he has been oppressed by his record label. Concerned fans from around the world send donations of money, food, sequins and facial implants.
But a month of bad news ends on an upbeat note when rescuers break through to a collapsed Pennsylvania mine shaft and free nine miners who have been trapped 240 feet underground for more than three days. Also rescued are 157 lawyers who have burrowed down there to offer their services in the filing of lawsuits.


JULY, 2007
President Bush undergoes a colonoscopy; congressional Democrats immediately pass a resolution condemning the procedure, while maintaining that they ''fully support the colonoscope.'' Vice President Cheney serves as acting president for two and a half hours, during which he performs what his office describes as ''routine executive duties,'' including ''signing some routine papers'' and ''ordering some routine bomb strikes against Iran.'' France immediately surrenders.
In other executive action, President Bush, on the eve of July Fourth, commutes ''Scooter'' Libby's prison sentence, on the grounds that, quote, ''Hey, c'mon, it's Scooter.'' Congressional Democrats are outraged, but the public is more concerned with the issue of whether to go ahead and have that fifth beer.
On the environmental front, the big story is Al Gore's ''Live Earth,'' a massive rock concert in which more than 150 music acts perform at 11 locations around the world to fight global warming, which is swiftly brought to its knees.
In the arts, July is dominated by the release of the seventh and last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter Spends Half the Book Camping, which enthralls the nation as nothing has enthralled it since the release of the iPhone. The book is generally well-received, although some fans are troubled by the ending, which culminates in the death of Harry's longtime nemesis, Tony Soprano.
In sports, suspicions of doping continue to plague the Tour de France when the grueling 2,200-mile race is won, in a stunning upset, by Barry Bonds. Pro basketball also suffers a blow following reports that NBA referee Tim Donaghy bet on games that he officiated, which could explain some of his questionable calls in critical situations, including fouls for ''bad posture'' and ``dribbling too loud.''