Birthdays!

Your birthday, on June 7th, was always cause for a great celebration! Your earliest birthdays were marked by Mom's famous Teddy Bear cakes.

She was still making them for birthday number 5!

And we had a party at McDonald's for your 6th birthday!

On birthday number 7 you got this bike! (And, not too long after, several stitches in your chin...)

How could we forget your "Sweet 16!" It was held in the recreation hall of the Presbyterian church with three of your friends also celebrating 16 - Christie Lienesch, Elaine Brown, and Melissa Wagshul.

But who could forget birthday number 31 in Newport, RI???!!! Later that day, back in the city, Jared proposed to you, setting us on the course for a September wedding in Block Island!

Mom's cakes were great, and she has made them for Emma and Alex, but I also really like those from "Ele" AKA "A Taste of Elegance" What about you?