Happy birthday to the best brother, father, and son I know.
Levi, you have made me so very proud to be called your sister. I know I can always count on you with anything and everything. You have always been here for me. You protect me, guide me, give me advice, help me when times are rough, let me cry on your shoulder when I have a bad day, and so much more.
And you are such a fantastic father when you have Tripp. The way you two look at each other makes my heart melt and my eyes tear up. There is no love more pure. I can't imagine any other father being so determined to give him the best life possible as well as such unconditional love.
He definitely knows who his daddy is and I wish he could be with you today to give you some birthday lovin.
It boggles my mind how fast time flies. It seems like just yesterday when we would sneak out of bed to spy on "Santa". You are my best friend and always will be. I can't believe you're already twenty!
Levi Keith, you are such a wonderful, intelligent, hilarious, kind hearted, extraordinary being. I love you very much and I couldn't ask for a better brother.
Happy birthday Levi! May God bless you and your family.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Levi! Just because Bristol is not magnanimous enough to let you share your birthday with Tripp does not mean he does not love you with all his heart. You have a special mom and sister, spend some time with them and have a wonderful day!
ReplyDeleteHAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEVI!!! (And many, amny more - may each one be happier than the one today!)
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful Mercede!
ReplyDeleteI can't help but compare those heartfelt, loving words to the idiotic tweet that you-know-who sent to her two-year-old son (Trig) on his recent birthday.
What an amazing family (the Johnston's) - how lucky you are! NO amount of money can come close to replacing what you have.
Happy birthday Levi.
What a sweet message. It is really heart-warming to see how much you love and care for each other.
ReplyDeleteHappy 20th birthday, Levi, and may you and your family have a wonderful year!
Happy Birthday, Levi! May you have more time with your son before you see 21. Things have a way of working out.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your heartfelt, beautiful message with us, Mercede!
ReplyDeleteHappy 20th Birthday, Levi! May you enjoy the blessings of each and every moment and have a healthy, prosperous and joyful year shared with those you love!
No doubt Levi can use all the good salutations he can get. It is great when your own sister likes you. Happy birthday and all that. I also, too, hope you Alaskan oil field folks are thinking of doing for the greater good as well as closing ranks and just taking care of your own. You have empathy for the latest oil disaster, having lived with the Exxon Valdez (drunk driver or something like that) accident. If anybody knows about the damage of chemical dependency, it is the people who live in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. I hope you get real before long, you are slowly killing us all.
ReplyDeleteMiss. turtles.
I know you are not political and that may be why you have failed to notice where your son has to live.
Happy Birthday, Levi. I'll bet you already know that your sister is as beautiful inside as she is on the outside.
ReplyDeleteI just wish Tripp could have shared your birthday with you. Best wishes, always, to you and your family.
Best Wishes to both Levi and Mercede. Levi, you are so lucky to have such a sincere, loving and caring sister. Mercede, you truly have a talent for writing, and you seem to write from the heart. I am guessing that you have a story to tell. You should get some good mature adult advice, and hopefully an agent. We've seen you on TV; you look good, and you express yourself well, so you wouldn't have any trouble making appearances and selling your book.
ReplyDeleteSome of Gryphen's readers have some kind of association with the publishing world. Maybe they can offer some advice and help. Kathy Griffin seems connected; maybe she can lend a hand. And, goodness knows that your family could use the money to hire a good family lawyer to represent your interests regarding Tripp. We all wish you the best in terms of getting to see and love him. And, please keep us posted and write updates.
Happy Bday!
ReplyDeletefyi, you do know the machine youre typing on is a product of petroleum right?
I hope Levi does have a nice birthday celebration with his family. It's inexcusable that he couldn't have Tripp with him today. I can't help but wonder what is wrong with Levi's legal counsel that he doesn't have a fair and reasonable and ENFORCED regular visitation schedule with Tripp. The longer this goes on, the lower probability there is that it will change. What a sad thing that would be if Tripp doesn't spend enough time with his father to really bond with him and know him. STAND UP FOR YOUR SON, Levi! It's up to you to persue this aggressively.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Levi! Your Mom has been blessed with
ReplyDelete2 really nice kids. The day will come when that
adorable lil' guy Tripp will speak for himself &
insist on being with his daddy, aunt & best gramma!
Sharon TN
Happy Birthday Levi, that's quiet a sister you have there. It's invaluable you have each other through these challenging and bewildering times. Most of us here appreciate the fact that you are still so young and were so unwittingly thrust into the spotlight (and thrown under the bus.)
ReplyDeleteThat said, Levi, you are a father and a grown man in the eyes of the law and the court of public opinion, for gods sake, lose the chew.
Gryphen, you have been very kind and as much as a mentor as possible to this poor family put in an impossible position by the Heath's / Palin's. They have an incredible arsenal at their disposal to crush this good hearted family and it is important they get a voice other than through Rex Butler and Tank.
Well wishes to the Johnston Family of Wasilla.
Happy birthday Levi! Consider yourself blessed to have a family who loves you deeply and unconditionally. Mercede, you have articulated something that is all too rare in this world ~ heart-wrenchingly raw, emotion for your sibling. May we all learn how to live with grace and gratitude, while all around us tempests blow.
ReplyDeleteI trust that the justice system will look upon your case with a clear and compassionate eye and that you will be grated your rightfully deserved access to Tripp.
Looking out for your book and show!!
Happy Birthday, Levi.
ReplyDeleteA view from my world: I raise my child alone. I offer my child's Dad every opportunity to spend time (anything from a free hour that pops up to overnight visits). Unfortunately, Dad rarely has time. I can count on ONE HAND the visits during a YEAR. Something always seems to be happening in his world...and it never seems to include his own child. The most unbelievable excuse Dad has actually had the audacity to tell his own child is that he didn't have any free time that weekend because he had set aside that time to spend with HIS STEPCHILD. Now, I think it's great to spend time with your step kids. But if you're not spending time with the kid who came out of your loins... well...something's wrong.
I say all this to set the stage: No matter how little Dad gives, my child thinks THE WORLD of Dad. DAD is a HERO. I'm just mom.
So, I know you aren't anything like my child's dad, but take heart. No matter how they keep your child away from you, you will be a HERO to your child and they can't do a damn thing about it.
Mercede & Levi,
ReplyDeleteThere is something you should know, since you are both too young yet to know on your own. Loyalty, devotion, appreciation & love for a sibling is much more rare than you may think. A true blue friendship with each other will sustain you throughout your lives more than you can possibly imagine.
This is what strikes me when I think of you two. Mercede in her own words, and Levi through his actions, show me that you two have been blessed with something more dear than almost anything else in life. As you grow, you will find many of your acquaintances, co-workers, and friends do not have what you have. No one can take this away, ever, and it is a beautiful gift to nourish and enjoy to the end of your days.
I'm going to sign off now before I say something negative about the Palin family since you have enough of that in your lives right now. Always be there for each other, and don't ever let time or distance dim your special bond.
Happy Birthday, Levi.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping that Tripp will be with you on your next B-day as well as his.
Stay strong. Always.
Awwwww Mercede....well, you must be a great sister to have, too!
ReplyDeleteHappy B-Day to Levi and hello to the Johnstons.
Happy Birthday Levi, Im old enough to be your mom but i still think you are cute... Mercede you rock girl.... Have a great one.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Levi!
ReplyDeleteMercedes that was a wonderful message. You have more class in your pinky than all the Palins and Heaths have in their entire bodies.
Levi, I hope you have many more birthdays, and that the next one finds you enjoying a much more favorable outcome concerning your son. You already have an enviable gift in the form of your sister Mercedes, who is as beautiful inside as she is on the outside. Your family has shown all the class that the Palins lack, proving as always that money doesn't confer class and the lack of money doesn't mean the lack of class.
ReplyDeleteIf there is a baby Ruffles, then the Johnstons know about it. If there is no baby Ruffles, why haven't they corrected the story? If Trig is not Palin's biological baby and there is a babygate, the Johnstons know it and how can they write, speak, act like none of it happened? Why would they let members of a political campaign come into their home and "scrub" their computers? The whole story is just bizarre and yet no one challenges the Johnstons. People seem to pander to them, yet if there is a baby conspiracy, they are in on it as much as the Palins.How can they be so dumb about who accesses their computers, sets them up for drug charges, walks all over them in child support hearings and still be so cagey when it comes to walking the fine line of pretending nothing happened, but dropping clues that something did. I think the Johnstons are as unsavory as the Palins. JMHO.
ReplyDeleteAnd why doesn't Mercede even mention Trigg?
ReplyDeleteMercede is going to be addressing many of the questions surrounding what she knows about the babies in an upcoming post. I would not count on a smoking gun, but there are some very interesting details that nobody has ever heard up til now.
ReplyDeleteAnd by the way the Johnston's are NOT hiding anything for the Palin's.
Gryphen,
ReplyDeleteRegarding your last comment "the Johnstons are not hiding anything for the Palins," do you mean that they are not hiding anything for the PALINS, but they may be hiding something for somebody else.... like Levi? Or do you mean that they are not hiding anything at all? Thx
Levi Happy Birthday! You are a lucky guy to have your sister and an adorable son. In this over populated world there are many children who no one wants, it is unfortunate that Tripp's mother can't appreciate what she had.
ReplyDeleteWill Tripp be a prop for her latest campaign? Someone PLEASE let us know everything Bristol did in her community to help the unwed mother and teen pregnancy problem.
...daughter of former Alaskan Sarah Palin, hits the campaign trail tomorrow.
You go, girl! We wish you and Levi the very best and thank you for taking time to do guest posts here on Gryphen's blog. As you can see from some commenters, we tend to get heated up about wondering about all the baby stuff since we sense that something isn't right and a lot of us have followed the story of Trig and then Tripp for a long time. But none of us can understand what it might be like being at the center of the drama, and in the middle of it all, it's so nice that you and Levi have a strong relationship and a firm committment to being there as much as is possible for Tripp.
ReplyDeleteWe wish you the best!
I will be looking forward to reading anything that Mercede writes about the babies. For example, those are very loving pictures of her and Levi posing with the "newborn baby of Levi's girl friend's mother." I wish she would tell us more about their loving involvement with that tiny newborn baby.
ReplyDeleteSadie is a joy and we are anxious to hear from her. I don't know if she will be restricted or how freely she can speak. It would be a blessing if she can help solve the riddles. She can be direct about what she knows and believes about the visit at the lake side compound with the little "Triggy Bear." Who all was there? What was the date? What was the occasion? What is her relationship with the Coles and did she or Bristol attend that baby shower? I know there are a million questions. It would be nice for someone in the know who could start with the basics.
ReplyDeleteWhen Sadie wrote to the lady in Florida, what was she was going to tell her when they could talk? I don't want to build up an expectation about this but it is hard not to want direct and honest answers.
Heres hoping for many joyful birthdays for all. That baby boy deserves the best. The truth will set you free.
Anon 6:12 - Rude and uncalled for. If I were the blog author, I would delete your post.
ReplyDeleteLet folks have their opinions. Don't censor.
ReplyDeleteHey look I don't like having to censor inappropriate comments either. But if you think you can come here and insult a guest who took the time to send a loving message to her brother then you are sadly mistaken.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to do that then swim on over to the sea o'pee and you will find yourself welcomed with open arms.
All the best of times for the Johnston Family.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday Levi, and many more.