This jewel is twelve years old.

And I am sad. 
I can’t find any of the other photos from that day.

We went to church and swam in the afternoon.  She’d requested pancakes for dinner and a homemade lemon cake. 

As we were leaving the pool, her friend Rebecca was arriving, so she stayed to swim with her family.  When John walked over to the pool to pick her up, he invited her friend and her parents to join us for pancakes, fruit salad and sausage.  It was some impromptu fun. ♥

Her gifts from us were a necklace of Toothless and his girlfriend from How To Train Your Dragon, as well as some clothing and art supplies.