Lyndsey's New Groove: The Ghost of Birthdays Past

Posting about my most recent birthday sent me down memory lane, thinking about many delightful birthdays past. This post is largely to indulge my memories, so if you don't care about old birthdays (or at least mocking old pictures of me) I won't be upset if you just want to go eat some cookies, or take a nap, or write your own blog about annoying people who post old pictures.

Unfortunately, since I'm in Peru, I only have access to the few photos on my computer and the other few stored on facebook. So you'll miss out on the photos of the more epic parties of my childhood: the castle maze, the Halloween Olympics, the Pirate Party, the Safari Party. Yep, my mom pulled off some pretty fantastic celebrations! But despite the many missing, here's a few from the last 26 years:

1985

So this wasn't my actual birthday, but close enough!

1986? 1987?

There was a plastic ghost hung in our front yard. I liked to say "Boo!" to it.

1992

Fractured my wrist rollerskating. I was a wounded black cat that year.
(This is our scarecrow friend that always hangs by the front door.)

1997

12th birthday was spent in Japan

Had a party in Ormond after the fact.

1998

13th birthday party in the park. I'm wearing overalls and pigtails. Feel free to judge.

Getting balloons at school was the epitome of cool in middle school.

2001

16th birthday party!

2003

18th birthday dinner at Applebee's, the traditional post-football game hang-out in highschool. They didn't give me any free birthday dessert. Some friendly neighborhood grill!

2006

Black widow spider for FCA Halloween party. (This was the day I got my braces on.)

21st birthday party in our townhouse in Gainesville.

Carving pumpkins!

2007

Birthday party in my flat in Paris, night before my birthday.

My friends brought a cake, but we didn't have birthday candles. We used a tea light. Hahah.
The next morning, Andrea and I headed to Italy, so I spent my actual birthday half in Paris and half in Milan.

2009