Happy Birthday!

So, today is our Lisa's birthday!  We called an impromptu holiday and everyone stayed home.  Lisa had a bicycle that she loved to ride and she loved to walk or run on the beach.  This morning the kids went for a bike ride then we came home to watch The Sound of Music... her all-time favorite show with a bowl full of popcorn.  Mitchell has been working all day to make some sort of sculpture out of play dough in her honor. :)  I baked an apple pie.  I admit that I don't know her favorite choice for dessert but I know she liked apple pie so that's what I've done.  It turned out great and we ate it for dinner!  She had a magnet on her fridge saying something about pie actually being fruit so it seemed appropriate for tonight! :)
It is a family tradition to have a "singing candle" for every birthday.  On her last birthday I gave her one of her own since her ex-husband seemed to have gotten the other one in the divorce!

It was a challenge to keep our chin up today but she loved her birthday so much that being sad today, of all days just wasn't an option.  We miss her so but are so grateful for the love that she gave to us while she was with us.  We have so many great memories of birthday's past that they have definitely sustained us today!  Making it special for her was the best part.  The line she put under her photo on Facebook is now widely used among her friends and reads like this: live, laugh, love, life is too short for anything less.
Make it a great day!