Samantha is officially a teenager – hopefully we’ll survive. 
we started the celebration with our long standing tradition of a trip to the Spaghetti Factory for dinner.
Samantha listening to them sing to her.
Finley laughing while they sang.
The weekend before her birthday we had her family birthday dinner. The tradition in our family is that you get to pick your own birthday dinner and celebrate with the family. Samantha picked (as I think she has picked every year for at least 5 years) Spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread and Caesar salad.
I was glad that Alberta and I could attend Samantha’s 13th birthday party. It seemed like everybody had a good time, especially Samantha.