Celebrate 50 golden years in the life of DoubleN on September 22nd gracefully or disgracefully - or however the heck you want to celebrate it - as long as it's FUN!!!

I couldn’t arrange the trip to Venice, so I bought the gondola to you, in the form of this delicious cake.

but heartfelt—

I hope your birthday was amazingly wonderful & each year is more special than the last.

got ahold of Middle Daughter’s camera and got the pics from my birthday party out of it. It really was a lot of fun!

THANK YOU so much to everyone for making my day so special!

I didn’t arrive in time for the party, I was still able to join in the celebration, and it was yummy great!

Sorry, I’m a wee bit late, but I wish you the happiest of birthdays nonetheless. I hope you had a great day!

For you, I found a dancer! My hope is she will inspire you to dance and next time you and I can cut a rug together ;)

of a splendid and spectacular decade!

Four important events for September 22:

1.)1792 France declared itself a Republic
2.)1862 Abraham Lincoln ordered American slaves to be freed
3.)1958 43Things beloved DoubleN was born!
4.)1966 The first ever Star Trek aired on television.

Happy Birthday DoubleN!

Hope your birthday celebration was the greatest ever. Fifty years of living is a lot of living and I hope you have enjoy the next fifty even more.

Here’s a ton of gold for your special birthday ;)

Happy Birthday DoubleN! Here’s hoping you had a fun, relaxing, slightly naughty birthday and that the next 50 will get shinier every year! xo

Here’s one of my favorite cars, and it’s the same age you are.

Classic beauty, don’t you agree?

Happy birthday!!!