Jane was turning 18, so as we had done in years past

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we celebrated. I took a picture of 18 year old Jane and then a picture of Jane and Suzanne and Ben before going to Small World where we saw Steve Forrest and after a Jane and Ben picture I took a picture of Ben with Mr. Sweeney, his science teacher. Then we were all off for the day and returned home to see decorations getting started as the children relaxed until Jane and I decided to go for a walk and ran into Rhonda Wagner en route tot eh battlefield

where the sky was blue and we enjoyed the scenery

from the monumenet and as we tired of scenery pictures, Jane took these pictures of our legs and then these self portraits before my legs inspired her to take these Blair Witch pictures of herself and pensive pictures of me followed by some arty pictures of the landscape the sky the arch the Mercer House the cars driving by

and the ground before we got home and noticed that Ben and Joel were playing basketball

until it was time to open the sushi and the odd looking cheese that Suzanne had purchased. Alan came to pick up Joel which caused Ben to lie down and then Sarah arrived wearing her vibrant shoes as opposed to Suzanne's more sedate shoes and I tried on the T shirt Sarah got that captures my personality along with this sticker which set the context for many pictures of the celebration as the table was set and the fruit was served and salads were there for all to enjoy along with the birthday numbers and cup cakes as Jane opened her first presents which made her smile as Sarah and Ed watched and more presents and a card made by Penny appeared

and Ben's umbrella hat had to double for the missing birthday hat as Suzanne and Ben got the birthday girl ready to open more presents including a pocketbook a belt and much clothing

and the birthday greeting was assembled as even more clothes appeared and then Claire arrived for another arrangement of the birthday greeting before Liz and Lauren E. and Caitlin arrived and John Yi posed with Jane as Jane made her way through the assembled to pose with Kevin and then the apple juice (sparkling) was brought out and as everyone watched and wondered about the food in the kitchen the matches were used to light the candles and bring the cake forward as the assembled sang before the cake was served amidst excitement from the crowd

even as the microwave ruled the kitchen and Casey and friend decided to forego cake as Justin scouted out the cake and the others kept chatting as Tommy and Angus and Mike lined up for cake and as I decided to leave the crowd with my piece of cake Carl arrived to wish Jane a happy 18th birthday.