Dear Beautiful Shelly!

Happy happy birthday and yeah, funny joke that you are 50 cause you look like a teenager.. Mike and I wanted you to know how much we have loved our many adventures with you and Tony over the years. From a midnight ski to do the final “check out” for future wives, to waking up in the aftermath of a hurricane in Tahiti to just sitting and laughing about life-you have always been a constant delight. Life gets crazy and sometimes we’ll go months without seeing you, but we always seem to pick up where we left off with the old and new jokes and the feeling that we are with lifelong friends.
I remember the first time I met you so distinctly. I was just starting to date Mike and we saw you at a park sitting with your new born daughter. I remember Lindsey’s incredible, gigantic, beautiful, blue eyes and just remember how darling you were with her. Years later with all our kids almost grown, you are still the same funny, beautiful girl that I met that day.
So here’s to you on your big day! May you know how much you are loved by the Bourne’s. Years from now- when we turn 50 -we hope we’ll have the same lust for life and spark for living that you have always had! Thanks for all the happy moments we have shared, and all those that are ahead of us!!
We love and adore you, Mike and Judi Bourne