You might know,

my daughter recently had a birthday -

number 12.

You know that YOU are getting old

when...

there isn't much room left on your daughter's cake for candles...

the candles on said cake light said daughter's face up with no problem...

it takes many tries for her to blow all of these candles out...

and when it's all done...

the smoke from the candles resembles the smoke in the sky after the grand finale fireworks on the 4th of July.

Next year we will need a bigger cake.  :)