Family Photo Album Jesse's Birthday 1992 Five Years Old The neighborhood kids from Dearborn where a delightful treasure. Joey, Brittany, and Nick were fun and fearless. We will always remember the day Brittany skidded her big wheel to at stop, pointed at Jesse, and shouted to Joey: "Look, its another kid!" We sensed this might be our last birthday party together. Dave was laid off as his company slowly went out of business, so he was hurrying to finish his college degree in nightschool and doing some contracting on the side. The kids had a great time at the party, and the grown ups, too. Lyn always did a great job at finding things that were simple and fun to do. This picture will always be priceless for us. The kids started kindergarten in September, and Brittany's family moved to a new house about a mile away shortly afterward. Of course, Dave commuted to Utah starting in September and we all moved when the house sold the following February. (Read about our "Trip Across America") The house was decked out for the party, and we had lots of pizza and of course a pinata with candy and little toys. Lyn had the cake especially made with Jesse's favorite video game character "Link" from the "Legend of Zelda" Nintendo game. Jesse spent his childhood pouncing around our Dearborn house, swinging one of the dozen swords from his toybox. First as Peter Pan, then as Donatello the purple Ninja-Turtle (borrowing Leonardo's sword), then finally as Link. What a wonderful gift we were given to have him as our son. Click to view a different holiday or year Original Web Upload July, 2001 Last Update: July 2, 2001