Kara's Birthday

My daughter is 23 today... I'm working on this post at 6:30AM, but since she currently resides in Western Australia (12 time zones away), she won't see it until sometime this evening... hopefully, she's received the card Tim and I sent a couple of weeks ago; we miss you, Kara! Thought I'd post a few pictures... good memories from the last 23 years...

Here she is all wrapped in pink... headed to her first church service at about one week old...Lana reading to her (still in pink) and her now-married cousins Kristen and Chelsea (see Nov. 6 entry)...With grandma; both in pink!...At an award ceremony in kindergarten after winning the Southern Bell art contest; her picture ended up in the phone book...Riding an elephant (with dad and Tim)...South-of-the-Border; touring the "isletas" (little islands) off the coast of Granada, Nicaragua...
At her 12th birthday party... Glamour shots (her friends were all older)...Father-daughter trip to Guatemala (by bus with a layover in San Salvador, where we stayed with the Turcios)...Making cupcakes with the little girls she nannies in Perth...Ready to hit the waves...A few last minutes of instruction...
Hope your day has been "totally tubular" Kara!