The Birthday Girl!!

Happy Birthday, Havalah! Thank you for making me a mama, and for bringing more joy and love and FUN into our lives than we ever knew was possible.  I am so proud of the confident, artistic, kind, and intelligent (to name a few :) young lady you are today.  I love you forever and always and thank you for making the last seventeen years my favorite years.  Happy birthday, beautiful girl!

things that describe Havah from her friends at a co-op team building activity

her partner in crime :)

tea and a book sums her up pretty well :)

And as if tradition, here are some things she loving right now:

Favorite book - Pride and Prejudice
Favorite past time - Drawing
Favorite sport to watch - Football
Favorite thing to bake - Biscuits and pies
Favorite character from a book and why - Mr. Darcy
Favorite food to order at a restaurant - Monte Cristo from Cheddar’s
Favorite food to eat at home - Popcorn and Cheez-its
Favorite drink - Any tea
Funniest thing you can think of - An inside joke having to do with a relative and a card game
Where you'd like to go on vacation - Ireland
Favorite restaurant - Blaze Pizza
Favorite subject in school and why - History, because I love learning about the past — especially if it’s medieval history
Favorite season and why - Either summer, because I can swim and because don’t have to do any school, or fall, because it gets colder and because football starts
Favorite movie - The Lion King
Favorite thing to do on the weekend - Go through my stuff
Favorite TV show - BBC’s Pride and Prejudice
Favorite song - “Dear Me” by Nichole Nordeman
Favorite color - Rose pink

I love you, darling one! Happy Birthday!