Ah, to be 21..

Happy Birthday Little Lightfield!!

She never reads my blog, so I doubt that she'll see this or any of the past three years' birthday blog posts that I've written... but if she does, I'd want her to know that I'm so PROUD of her and THANKFUL to be her sister and friend! She's 21 now, and that makes me so excited for the upcoming sisterly shenanigans that we're bound to get into. New Ulm, MN American Legion Karaoke, you ain't seen nothing yet!

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