It was Saturday night March 5 and Suzanne Ben (incognito) and I (better self portrait) got our programs and waited until Around 8

took the stage at Market Fair. After they sang, we got pictures of Jane alone and with friends said goodbye to Suzanne and headed off to watch Princeton play basketball (not a pretty sight this season).

A few days later, we celebrated Jane's birthday as we'd done for the previous 5 years:

2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
though she does seem to get older each year. Jane put on her gift sweatshirt

and we surveyed the decorations including those that need to last until April 17 and took the birthday picture before admiring the cheeses from Dean and DeLuca and making sure the table was set and that Jane had her magic wand Ben had his food and Suzanne had her wine while the vegetables made my plate feel like it wanted to be full as I started to eat and then recorded the event as the cake appeared and after the candles were blown out we could take cake pictures while Jane was excited as Sarah and Ed watched and Jane cut some cake for me to eat which inspired a group of very bad self portraits

while I recorded the fan and the presents

were opened until Kaylen arrived for the opening of even more presents

after which Lucy and Fred arrived so that the OC could be watched from the couch as Ben read jokes and Suzanne took in the scene.

The next day, March 11, Boris Russ '06 came to pose with the picture he painted for my office