Dear Riley,

Dear Riley,
It's your birthday! Happy sixteenth! I would love to be able to tell it to you in person, and to have gotten to give your gift to you. But life got in the way. I hope you know that it would have been number one on my list of things to do if I was able to do them... Well, being able to control time is before that... BUT that is totally beside the point. : ) I hope your party is great, and I hope everyone realizes just how special today is, and that today recognizes someone amazing that came onto this earth. Your gonna be a wonderful women one day, and I hope the road toward that starts with this pivotable moment in your life. Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today, as James Dean put it. And as  Jimmy Buffet once said "it's five o'clock somewhere" ;) I hope today turns out to be more than you expect, and I will be thinking about you constantly, like always. I love you so much, and these years will fly by. But don't let them go too quickly. Stop and smell the tiger lilies along the way. Hugs, and I will always love you.


P.s. I know I'm an hour early but this way I'm ahead of everyone else who is gonna wish you happy birthday :D