fifty Three--suits Me

Dear family thanks for all your birthday calls, letter and gifts--it was a great day.. and we celebrated days before my birthday and days after...
.--so great to hear from you hope that you are having a good week
my birthday really was fun --we celebrated a few weeks back by going horse back riding in bryce canyon--for about four hours then hiking for five hours in the canyons. and then the kids came on conference weekend tooand we had singing and cake inbetween conference sessios. . On my actually birthday we had ice cream at joe and hayley's and then on the past day or two--I've still been getting cards and call's for birthday wishes--I love that it has been so well celebrated!! again --thanks for thinking of me --it made my day

birthday dinner (eaten the sunday before included one of my favorites: cheese potatoe soup
see gertsch family cook book under stephanie gertsch

abbie and I share birthdays one day apart --here we are holding her ice cream cake

hogies sandwiches were the order of the day--much like we use to have when the kids were home and watching conference with us--(in between sessions we usually had these huge hogies)

I have always maintained..*(and I'll stick by it) life only gets more fun with each birthday and each passing year---as the song says "l am the luckiest"
see the enclosures of the happy day of singing and cake and see if you don't agree...