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Sweet Sixteen

Last Thursday, my daughter, Alyssa , turned 16.  The night before, I hijacked her blog, Life of Faith .  I made some changes to her blog’s template (Doesn’t her blog look sweet ?), wrote a birthday post on her blog listing 16 reasons why I think she is such a sweet and special daughter, and asked relatives and friends to leave comments for her.  She was very pleasantly surprised! On Friday, Alyssa’s close friends came to have a sleepover at our home.  My sister in law (Alyssa’s aunt) also stayed overnight with us.  We watched Pride and Prejudice (the short version).  We laughed so much…you would think it’s a comedy, not a drama . On Saturday, more relatives came to attend her Sweet Sixteen Party.  Games we played included: Sweet Target (shooting a target using a potato gun (shoots out potato pellets)…aiming for #16 or a combination of numbers added up to 16 within 3 attempts), Sweet Soak (relay game…the first person of each team walked to fill up a cup with water and