Happy Birthday Jessica

Yay for Jess and her special day! She is such a selfless, loving, fun girl--so much so that she allowed us all to celebrate our "LeBarie Scaries" night ON her birthday (more on that later...) and top it off with a little singing and some candles and cake right at the end of the night.

I love Jessica because she is a lot like me...:)!! Seriously, we have very similar hubbies and seem to deal with them in similar ways (for good and bad). Plus, we both rocked in our high school dance companies back in the day and performing in spandex so many times has produced quite a kinship between us.

Jess is just so helpful and willing to do whatever she can to make things easier for others. She jumps right in and always helps with Sunday dinner, finds any crying or distressed niece or nephew and comforts them quickly, and bakes amazing treats and goodies that she doesn't even like to eat so that we can all enjoy them. I love that she let Bentley sleep in the same room with her on our Sun Valley trip, babysat my kids for me while we were in Lake Powell this summer (in expert form I might add), and shows up for kid-friendly events just to play with all of us and our crazy children even though she doesn't have any of her own kids yet (not for long though....) She is going to be such an fabulous mommy. If she shows even half of the love and patience and tenderness to her new baby that she has shown to mine, he will be totally spoiled!

Thanks for being such a great friend and sister-in-law and auntie to Cares and Beans. We all love you and hope you had a wonderful day (and thanks for not having a costume with me tonight--maybe all those dance concerts burned us out on dressing up ages ago...:)