It's hard to believe our baby is now 16! It's even harder to believe that she LOST the "sweet 16 and never been kissed bet"! This meant no $1,000 payout to her. Seriously I never imagined she would be the one, and only one, of our kids to not win the bet!!! Like even the boys made it! But I'm not complaining for having an extra 1K in our checking account...ha! And clearly she felt it was worth it. Plus now that she doesn't have that extra cushion in her savings account I think a job this summer is more likely in her future! Now she just needs to get her driver's license! That would be the best gift ever...to give me!
One of my most fond memories from my childhood was my 16th birthday. Instead of my ride arriving to take me to early morning seminary on that day, the doorbell rang and I was greeted by a chauffeur, asking for me by name, and then telling me my limo was awaiting. I remember being so shocked, confused and excited as my parents said "happy birthday, go on now and have fun"! I was led to the limo where there was sparkling cider and glasses and he said we'd be making a few stops before getting to our destination. My parents had arranged for him to pick up five of my closest friends and take us to breakfast at Carrows. After we were finished, he took us for a drive around Folsom Lake before dropping us all off at school. It was the coolest surprise that I'll never forget not to mention the first time any of us had ridden in a limo. Fast forward to the weeks leading up to Sage's 16th birthday and I was racking my brain trying to think what I could do or if I would be able to pull off something similar. When I asked Sage which friends she would choose to do something special with on her birthday, she responded she would rather have one big party with all her different friend groups since in the past she focused just on her school friends, afraid that adding her rowing and church friends to the group would maybe make things awkward since many of them don't know each other or attend the same school. But this year would be different. She wanted to have a big bash not leaving anyone out! So here are a few of the highlights:
The gang of friends
