Happy Birthday Amanda

Today is your birthday!!

What can I say about you? You were my last baby and have been the one in our family to make us smile and laugh. You called me last night and guess what? You made me smile and yes laugh until my sides hurt. That is Amanda.....I tease you about being a "bad" baby and how you cried for week and its just to make you laugh. She was not really a bad baby. You just wanted her mommy and wanted to be loved and held. You Grammy called you the "hanging baby" as I held you as I took care of her brother Erik and sister Ash.

One time you wanted to get money from a tooth fairy and your dad told you that you had to loose a tooth first and you went right in the bathroom and with players took out a tooth that was not even lose. That is my Amanda.....

You and I lived in Colorado together alone for seven months and those months we were brave together in what was a very scary time. We just laughed our way through it.....Manman, always remember: 7-11, Hot cheetos, Going to get slurpies in the snow at midnight, walks in the snow, Indian food, Dar and the boys, The older man up stairs, Trips to dollar city, the library, Twinson.

Amanda you have grown up to be the women that I always imagined you to be. You are a women of honor and grace and I am proud to be called you MOM today. I love you very much and this is my present to you. My gift of words. God did a wonderful thing when he gave me you that August 10, 1990. He knew just what our little family needed.

You are a child of God and a daughter and a sister and now a girlfriend to Dustin...Life is good baby,

Love you very much,

MOMMY