This is from a photo shoot in LA before Beverly Hills 90210. I think the off the shoulder sweaters and shirts are back "in" this season...21 years later.
When this year started, I knew, of course, that I would be entering another decade. The dreaded birthday that I did not want to talk about. This is the year my husband thinks I'm too old to have more babies, but that I look WAY better than I did last year. That's sweet Ben...ha ha. Realizing that I am just getting older, and there is not anything I can do about it. Since I cannot do anything about getting older, I decided I must get thinner. I'm still working on it, but I have lost 23lbs.
Anyway...back to my birthday week. My cousin Cindy, who has always been like the big sister I never had, always remembers my birthday and I love spending time with her...here we are over the years...July 1993...
My 2
nd Birthday in 1972...not nearly as traumatic...with my cousins Danny, Cindy, and Vince...
This is at our grandma Peak's house, in the chair where she rocked many grandchildren...Cindy, me and Claudia...1975...
Me and Cindy peeking around the shower curtain at grandma Peak's...this is a photo we re-created a few times by just putting on shower caps and peeking around the curtain...
And, this is how I started my birthday week, having dinner with my Cindy at Dockside...
So many memories! She did insist upon buying me "gag" birthday gifts so I would not forget how old I am this year (not always nice...ha ha). However, I will always love my Cindy!
A day with great friends! And Spa Day at the creek!
Well, it started, like it often does, with some girls posing for a picture...Daniell, me and Taylor...
The guys went to set up their man camp for hunting. The girls later rode the 4-wheelers to their camp with lunch.
Me and Taylor ride together, of course! It really is a lot of fun and it was a beautiful day...
Me, Lisa, Daniell, Cris, Cassie and Taeva...
Ben was excited to have the tasty lunch I brought him...
They were done with camp set up by the time we got there. We don't get up too early...Daniell, Ricky, Pat, Ben and Taylor...
And that sweet little Daniell made jello...
Pictures with jello, marking the great birthday...
After lunch we went on a nice 4-wheeler ride...and stopped to play in the water a little along the way...
Here's that guy I still love, love, love, which is saying a lot since I'm writing this towards the end of his two week hunting vacation...
My sweet Taylor enjoying some wonderful cheese puffs...who doesn't love a good cheese puff? Taylor loves them...
The story behind the cake...one evening on a girls 4-wheeler ride...Crystal and Daniell were laying in the grass. I think it was because Crystal tripped, but I don't know for sure. This turned into a photo opportunity, of course. I said to Lisa, "I would never lay in that grass," to which she replied, "then you're doing it." So, this is me with my sippy cup of wine, laying in the grass. Good Memories!!
I'm not smiling in the cake, because laying in the grass really isn't my thing, but I do love our girls only 4-wheeler rides. They are always so much fun! And, I did love the cake. My friends are wonderful!!
Ricky played his guitar around the camp fire...which always mean we will have some sing alongs...whether he likes it or not :) I had a wonderful birthday with wonderful friends and this is the best one of all...
