HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SAMANTHA!!

Our "baby", Samantha, turned 12 yesterday. We had a great day. She woke up to a decorated kitchen, which is where I always decorate for birthdays. She opened one gift and then had to go to school. Her two close friends from church wanted to surprise her, so they came over before she got home from school and decorated the basement and I decorated the front hall and family room. When she walked in from school, I told her that her daddy wanted to say happy birthday and that he was in the office downstairs. She opened the basement door and Nicole and Virginia were hiding on the steps and yelled "surprise!". She was so shocked; it was neat. We took them out to dinner, since it raining, we couldn't do a low country boil like she had requested. Bruce, Lisa and Bethany were there already seated and so she got another surprise that they had driven down to celebrate with us.