Celebrating Rebekah's 14th Birthday

Our celebrations continued in December with the 14th birthday of our daughter, Rebekah. It is so hard for us to believe that our little girl is already fourteen!

Rebekah - at our apartment in Krasnoyarsk, 2002

We are so thankful for Rebekah and her sweet spirit. She is such a blessing to our family and has such a great testimony with the Russian people. Everyone loves our Beka. We are so proud of how she reaches out to help others and is so burdened for more Russians to be saved!

For her birthday meal, Beka chose hamburgers! She LOVES meat! 

Hamburgers with onion ring chips.

Now, I have to appreciate Beka's cake choice this year. She loves anything with caramel and chocolate. (My  kind of girl!) Beka began talking about a caramel cheesecake. I found this recipe online and it had a graham cracker crust (which she also wanted) with caramel. We were excited because we recently found toffee candies similar to Skor candy bars which we could use as a topping. 

Our caramel cheesecake.

Okay ladies, I am not bragging on my baking but I have to say, this was YUMMY! I know that combining cream cheese, caramel, graham crackers, and chocolate covered toffee can't really be "yucky" but this recipe is definitely worth trying! It is a bit time consuming because everything is weighed to the gram. However, it does not require a spring form pan which was another bonus for me since I don't own one!

She was ready to try it and not pose for more pictures!

Gift opening time was fun as Beka received two things she really wanted.

One gift was a new purse from her brothers (who were excited to give her a gift which they purchased with their own money). 

Her second gift was a hair dryer/curling brush from David and me .

She was very happy about her gifts and really enjoyed her special day!!!