They Say It's Your Birthday

No, it's not my birthday. That would be in May, so please send chocolate then. It is my beautiful sister's birthday today! She refuses to come over here, to blog land, to prove a point to me, which is totally just a whole other blog post, but I come out not looking so hot, so I may tell it and I may not. Aren't you intrigued now? See how I work that?

Anyway...my sis is pretty awesome, despite her avoidance of my blog (which she will not be able to keep herself from today, because, there are *pictures* of her on it--she'll be curious). We are ten years apart and yes, I'm...(gulp)...older. But we're close. Tight like that. She is me, ten years ago...minus the marriage, and plus the guts to travel to Thailand for a year all by herself and teach for a year (that would never have happened in my little world back then). Oh and she's a blondie, so I'm pretty sure she having more fun than I did at 26. I've heard the rumors, anyway. Like me, she likes to shake her tooshie (and dance) and she's funny (a bit on the sarcastic siiiide--it's in the genes) and she introduced us to High School Musical, and I thank her for that. (I *heart* Zac)

Anyhoo...Happy Birthday, Rachael!! You didn't buy Twilight yet, did you? I'm just saying. I am now going to share some awesome pics of you...and me, cuz that's just what I do. And I'm sorry about the picture quality of some of them. Some of the pics are like 26 years old and upon further investigating about our scanner, I have found that we need to buy the software to hook the baby up. So thanks to Dave Ramsey, I've got to save up for that, which is so not a priority right now. So, enjoy my awesome photo skills. And most of all, Rach...this one's for You!

This is Rachael in the middle all fancy pants for her baptism. She is surrounded by sis, Star (left) and moi (right). We love her.

This is probably my fave pic of Rachael and I. She totally loves me.

See..she can't stop hugging me. I was even awesome then.

I'm pretty sure she was inspired by her Rainbow Brite doll back in the day. OMGoodness, she's cute. And that's our bro, Josh, in the back--which you will meet at another blog post.
This was about a year and a half ago. We are still so very, very awesome!

Auntie and my girls. They love her too.

It's so hard to say goooodbye. This is right before she left (me) for a year to teach in Thailand.

This is her getting home from Thailand, just the other day.
And this is Rach, looking like a doll. And yes, this is what she looks like every day. Everyone dresses like this in Portland. Just kidding.

So yeah, Happy Day, sis! Can't wait to see what 26 has to bring you, but knowing you, it's gonna be pretty darn good.

Who loves ya? (me, me, me, me, meeeeee)