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Sep 28, 2006

My Favorite - and Only - But Still Favorite - Sister in the Whole Wide World

She really was the cutest little thing, even though she had some nerve being conceived in the first place, totally usurping my six-year reign as Baby of the Family and inflicting me with a nasty case of Middle Child Syndrome that would last the rest of my life. Little butthead.

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I swear, she looked like this all the time. Just look at those dimples. Little brown-noser.

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She continued to blossom into a beautiful little girl...

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...and had only a few, shall we say, unfortunate fashion slip-ups along the way.

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She was even purty with a mouth full of mangled metal.

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She was Maid of Honor in my wedding.

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...and tried with all her might to catch the bouquet, bless her eager little heart.

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And a few years later, she married the man of her dreams.

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Yep. She's my favorite sister in the whole wide world. And she's 32 years old today. Happy Birthday, Wetsy!

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Punk-ass.

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Makes me wish MY favorite sister (yep, my only, OLDER sis) had a blog so she, too, could write such lovely birthday tributes to moi.HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WETSY!Business aside, OMW, 80s fashion--WHAT was ANYBODY thinking? Those tights...and the guitar salvaged maybe 1% of "cool" (giggles). A cutie-patootie from the get-go, and got to LOVE that sisters picture at your wedding! Wetsy's wedding pic looked like a dreamy shot from a soap opera or something....n i c e!Hope the cake is yumalicious (Westy, what'd Ree cough up for some birthday goods? I heard she gave away your $50 Starbucks giftcard to someone who captioned a picture "Twisted Sister"--was she actually talking about YOU?).Yep, it's a happy day already!

Good Morning !Happy Birthday, Betsy.There's a little something over at my place that you might be interested in looking at sometime today, just for you. I had so much fun reminiscing while I did this. I hope you enjoy it.

Bets,You're everybody's dream for a little sister, epecially mine! If you ever get tired of her flashing that bouquet pic around, you know that my adopted sister arms are always open, and I don't have a stash of pics to torture you with.

Happy Birthday Bets! You were the cutest little sister.....still are too! Hope you guys are well and celebrating..........Love, Shama

Happy Birthday Precious Girl!! (and Congratulations to your Also-Precious Sister on her great Blogging!)Happy Day....Happy Year!!

Thanks, ReeRee! You're my favorite sister, too. But you're on thin ice with that bouquet photo. Oh, and any fashion stumbles through the years were probably plucked from your very own closet. You loved it when I wore your stuff.Love,Betsy Wetsy Wets the Bed (and so does her older sister)

Can I tell a secret? (my oldest is named Betsy - and we call her wetsy, too) Hope you have a great day, Betsy, and that those 80's pictures don't come back to haunt you too badly!

Are you people ALL gorgeous?Good grief;)Happy Birthday Betsy!

Happy Birthday to your little sister! Y'all are both beautiful.

Happy Birthday Westy! You both are so beautiful. I'm sad though because I know my own older sister does not love me this way and never will. Oh well. I'll live vicariously through the two of you.

Happy birthday, Betsy! Sounds like Ree loves you as much as I love my little sis. Wow, I miss her (she's in Dublin and I'm in Toronto)!

Dang, your family makes some good looking girls.Happy birthday to your sis!

Jimminy Crickets STOP with the pictures, damn! you people own the market on "beautiful people". You are so lucky to have each other and share this much love and affection.Happy Birthday to wetsy and Congrats on such a tight fun family!!!e

Robin, you make me smile! Aren't those lace tights heinous? Whew.Swampwitch..I checked it out. How lovely!Yer pal...she's mine. You can't have her. Well, I guess you can share.Shama Lama Ding Dong!Hi, Mom! Fishy Girl...how neat! Another Wetsy in the world. I wonder if the reasons we call our sisters that name are the same, thought?...(but that's another post for another time.)Pass the Torch, put down the crack pipe. :) (But thank you.)Hi, Renee!CPAMom...:( I'll be your loving big sis. But I can be bossy.Hi, Sandra!Sasha, put down the joint.Pixielyn, put down the whiskey. :)Thanks, everyone.

Happy birthday to your sister!!! How sweet of you to include the pictures with the bad fashion AND the braces in the same post, Ree! You're such a great sister! LOL.

Awwwww. You guys are beautiful! Hapy Birthday, Betsy!

I lost my eldest sister to cancer. She was a "boggle" queen. No one could beat her.She was wise, she sang with me, and she had a bigger butt then me. The last part was what made her imperfect.. and I miss her terribly.Happy birhtday to your lovely sis.

Happy Day on this celebration of your birth Wetsy!!♥Pam

happy birthday to Wetsy!! You're both gorgeous!

You both are gorgeous! So I have this fear of getting ugly as I age (I'm nearly 23!) but if I can look half as beautiful as you both do, I'll die of bliss. :) Happy Birthday Ree's sister! :)

Happy Birthday to Wetsy!Now I wish I had a sister!What a fun time of year for your family - seems like it's one birthday after another lately! Happy celebrating!

That's so cute! I have a younger sister who's a much better person than me. She's beautiful, has a smaller waist, a better job, never gets dirty and never farts. Although she does get loud sometimes when telling jokes that she believes are funny!She also thinks blogworld is evil and populated with creeps and freaks and stalkers, so you won't ever be seeing her on my blog. Just imagine me, only, y'know, perfect!

Happy Birthday Wetsy!! (I left another birthday greeting for ya over on Swampy's blog. So I will keep this one short.)

What a great sister you are to honor her in such a way. Great pictures too, as always. I hope you get to spend a little time together on her special day (some sometime thereafter). Happy Birthday to your Sis!

opps, that should say OR sometime thereafter. I can't take care of the little munchkins, organize a benefit and type reponses all at the same time apparently.

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