Lillie’s Birthday 17!!!!!

Lillie turned 17 this year. It is hard to know where the time went. It really seems like just yesterday we came home with her from China. Since then she has been such a wonderful child!  From when she was little she was always so good. Always listened to us, never fussed, was friendly and nice and helpful!  So many of our friends warned us about becoming parents warning that as a little child they would be a handful. We never saw those terrible days. As a teen, people warned us again. But overall she has been so good as a teen—smart, studious, musical, helpful, again always listening to us and generally very happy. She had a great birthday weekend, beginning with dinner at her favorite restaurant—Melting Pot!!  Then some birthday fun with friends at Panda Express and the laser bowling!  It was a lot of fun!!

Panda Express with friends—a nod to her Chinese lineage. 

Finally some bowling fun. She had great fun with her friends!!

One of the funnest parts of the night was singing happy

birthday. We got this cake where we put a baby picture of her on it. We remember when we took that picture of her like yesterday, in the hotel in China just hanging out!!