Alicia is 30 years old!

Friday night we celebrated Alicia's 30th birthday with a quiet dinner at home. 

We put Alicia on a plane when she was 16 years old and sent her off to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan for her senior year of high school.  She then went to the University of Texas at Austin to study flute performance with Marianne Gedigian, then on to the New England Conservatory in Boston for her Master's degree with Paula Robison. 

After four years as the concert manager at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum she came back home to farm with us.  She is a really good farmer.  She challenges our thinking, learns every day and reminds us of the joy in the life we chose so many years ago. 

This smile.....one of the many things I love about Alicia.  

Matthew and Alicia, both have just begun the next decade of living life on their farms and together.