Today is the summer solstice. This is the longest post day of the year! Today we get to enjoy the maximum amount of daylight and I have the special honor of enjoying my birthday.
When I was little and people told me that my birthday was the longest day of the year I was pretty excited. I thought that meant more hours for me to play the birthday card, have my friends over longer and have time for a second helping of cake. Later I learned about the solar system and realized that there were the same number of hours in every day. This day just has the most daylight hours, I felt a little robbed as a kid. What good are daylight hours when you still have to go to bed at 8:00pm?
Fortunately, I made it to adulthood and can now see the value in the longer daylight hours.
Unfortunately, the days also get shorter from now on... oh the pangs of reality! At any rate, I hope that this summer brings joy, blessing and hope!
Here is a picture smorgasbord in honor of my 28 years of birthdays:
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| June 21, 1983 9lbs 8oz 12:45 AM |
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| Happy BIRTH day! |
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| 1984 - One! |
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| Why would they put the whole cake in front of me!? 1984 - One |
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| Traditional small first birthday cake. It was a three-cake year. I couldn't pick just one! 1984 - One |
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| 1985 - Two |
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| 1986 - Three |
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| 1986 - Three |
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| 1987 - Four |
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| I was so cool ;) 1987 - Four |
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| 1988 - Five |
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| 1989 - Six |
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| 1990 - Seven |
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| 1991 - Eight |
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| 1992 - Nine My first themed birthday party. |
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| The family party 1992 - Nine |
1993 - Ten. I'm missing a picture of my 10th birthday. Nowhere to be found!
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| 1994 - Eleven |
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| 1995 - Twelve (The year I first met Blake) |
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| 1996 - Thirteen |
1997 - Fourteen, is also missing!
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| 1998 - Fifteen |
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| 1999 - Sixteen (Only picture I had, those were my gifts) |
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| 2000 - Seventeen |
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| 2001 - Eighteen Blake made it for the picture this time. He usually came for food and left! |
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| 2002 - Nineteen Birthday dinner at Outback, a rare treat back then. Afterwards we went putt-putt golfing at Steakburger Golf-O-Roma in Hazel Dell, Wa. |
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| 2003 - Twenty |
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| 2004 - Twenty-One (Also my undergraduate college graduation cake) |
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| 2004 - Twenty-One Family Birthday Dinner - Blake again showing up for the food! |
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| 2005 - Twenty-Two |
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| 2006 - Twenty-Three My first birthday away from home. These friends from Grad school were kind enough to bring me a cake and celebrate with me :) |
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| 2006 - Twenty-Three The weekend when I finally made it home. Also, the first birthday Blake missed all together. He made it up to me though (see: Our Story) |
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| 2007 - Twenty-Four |
2008 - Twenty-Five, missing!
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| 2009 - Twenty-Six Overlapped with my bridal shower... no cake pictures for some reason. This is me opening my great-grandmother's teapot, a gift from my great-aunt. |
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| 2010 - Twenty-Seven At Long Beach for my birthday, again, no cake picture :( |
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| 2011 - Twenty-Eight (I know my mom is blurry, but it was the best of several attempts!) |
That's it! Those are all the birthday pictures I could find! Here's to not quite being almost thirty!
Cute pictures!!! I love the shots from when you were little. Also, you have some great pictures of when you were born!
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Happy Birthday! What a great idea...I love the picture of your parents and you right after you were born!
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I'm impressed (but not really surprised) that you have all of those pictures organized and on your computer!
Hope you have a great birthday!
Thanks! This was my weekend project actually. I had most of my b-day pictures thanks to my mom scanning hundreds of childhood pictures and putting them on a digital picture frame as a Christmas gift. I only had to hunt down about five years.
ReplyDeleteThe real treasure was discovering the ones of me just after being born. I hadn't seen those before but I'm glad to have them :)
I just had the best time reviewing the birthdays of my very special, beautiful niece -- it was a sweet trip down memory lane! Love you tuts!
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