Fourteen

Today, my middle child turned 14!  She is a beautiful, smart, athletic, musically talented, and funny girl.  She and I butt heads a lot but, she will always be my baby and I love her more than life itself!

This is a picture of her from when she was about 18 months old.  It has always been one of my favorites:

And here is a recent one of what I call her "model pics":

Friday evening, I took her and 3 of her friends to the mall for some shopping and dinner at The Cheesecake Factory (her favorite restaurant).  

Her friends then stayed the night and the four of them proceeded to stay up all night playing video games.  One of the three stayed again last night, and then my girl had softball practice with her travel team this evening.  All in all a good birthday weekend, I think.