Sarah Beara <3

In the tiny rural town of Pratt, Kansas, on the 17th of January 1993, Sarah Elisabeth Kippernes was born to the Captain and me…of course at that time he wasn’t a Captain and I was….well…a lot younger…we both were..

Sarah made us a family and she made us parents for the first time…

I really feel like these photos were not taken so very long ago and yet when I look at them I see how far we’ve come, for better and for worse…

Found these old photos of Sarah Beara…she was certainly a cutie..

She spent the first couple years of her life in the USA before we piled her into a train in the middle of the night to Chicago and on to Norway…

She was for the most part an easy first child, reveling in the attention an only child gets for as long as she could..it was easy to wear her out because we took her everywhere with us…

We exposed her to dogs even way back then…this was her with Heidi number one….there were three Heidis…the third being ol’ Heidi mamma you have all come to know and love…we had to leave this one behind when we moved to Norway, we couldn’t afford the quarantine…it was hard, she was a good pup and we all loved her..and Heidi number two also…

Now our Beara is all grown up, she passed her driver’s test today and can now officially drive. She is also legal to buy wine and beer in the country of Norway…she has a great boyfriend who she has been in a long time relationship with and she is driven in her goal to become a wildlife vet. It’s like she’s done this whole life thing before and takes each new phase in life in stride, never missing a beat and becoming smarter and smarter and more and more admirable for every phase she makes it through.

They should all be this easy…then again, life wouldn’t be that exciting if they were all alike now would it?

Happy 18th Birthday Sarah, you’ve made us happier and more proud then I could ever write or say…you’re forever in my heart sweet Beara…Love you so much…

Until next time my friends…