The year Samantha was 15, it looked like this. 
I can't wait to see sixteen. I love you Sam. Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday to Sam! My "baby" is almost 17 and it's hard to believe!
Posted by: Claudia at February 17, 2010 3:49 PMYay! I am the first one! Happy Birthday Sam!! Hope you enjoy your sweet 16!
Posted by: Liz at February 17, 2010 3:50 PMHAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM!! There are some beautiful pictures there. Hope sixteen is an awesome year!
Posted by: sherry at February 17, 2010 3:51 PMhappy birthday to you, sam! and happy sam's birthday to you, dear yarn harlot!
Posted by: vb at February 17, 2010 3:51 PMmake that second..haha i get a silver medal...Steph I sent much love and light to you and yours!
Posted by: Liz at February 17, 2010 3:51 PMWhat happens when your Mom has a blog....
Happy Sweet 16!!!!
Happy Birthday, Sam, from sunny Panama in Central America!
Posted by: NurseBrandy at February 17, 2010 4:00 PMHappy Birthday Sam! I hope it is a happy year for you.
Posted by: Doris at February 17, 2010 4:01 PMHappy Birthday Sam! Your photos make you look like the wonderful young lady that I'm sure that you are. Hope you have a great, happy day full of friends, family, birthday cake, lots of comments on your mum's blog and oh yeah, gifts!
Remember to give your mum a hug today. Birth'n a baby isn't easy.
Posted by: Sue at February 17, 2010 4:01 PMHappy Birthday Samantha!
Posted by: Rachel H at February 17, 2010 4:02 PMHappy Birthday Sam! 16 is AWESOME!
Posted by: CTJen at February 17, 2010 4:03 PMDear Steph,
Happy Labor Day to you!!! first
and then
Happy Birthday Sam
cause with out your mum you might not have been here:-)
hugs
Karola
Happy Birthday,Dear Samantha!(I'll get to say that to my own Dear Samantha in May.)Hope 16 is a wonderful year for you!!
Posted by: Kim(with kids) at February 17, 2010 4:04 PMHappy birthday, Samlamb. I still haven't recovered from how you changed between the first year I saw you and the second, when you suddenly looked like these pictures. Obviously, calendar notwithstanding, extra time had passed -- no one could get that lovely that fast. I'm blaming alien abduction, myself.
Posted by: rams at February 17, 2010 4:04 PMHappy Birthday Sam. It has been a joy watching all you kids grow up on your mom's blog. You are becoming a lovely young woman.
Posted by: Krista M at February 17, 2010 4:09 PMHappy birthday Samantha!
Posted by: Deb at February 17, 2010 4:09 PMI'm sure we're already a bit much, but happy birthday anyway. No surprise to you, but 16 is one of those way up and down years. Btw, love the snarly clawing pic; have fun with it!
Posted by: janet philly at February 17, 2010 4:10 PMI love birthdays, anyone's birthday, have a wonderful celebration and may it last all month long! Cake for everyone!
Posted by: Liza at February 17, 2010 4:10 PMLive long and prosper, Sam!
Posted by: MJinMichigan at February 17, 2010 4:12 PMHappy Happy Birthday to Sam! And to me because today is my birthday too, but I'll spare you the pictures because at 43, I'll break the camera lens. (Might need a wide-angle lens, too.) :) Our birthday really should be an international holiday, don't you think? I do. ENJOY!!
Posted by: Carla at February 17, 2010 4:13 PMActually, you have seen her 16th year. Her birthday was the anniversary. She is now in her 17th year....that becomes a bummer as one ages...
Posted by: leskabib at February 17, 2010 4:15 PMHappy birthday, Sam! I love your smile--it lights up the whole room, I can tell.
Posted by: barbinvic at February 17, 2010 4:15 PMNo wonder you woke so beautiful today. Enjoy
Posted by: LYDIA at February 17, 2010 4:15 PMhappy sweet 16 sam!
Posted by: bea at February 17, 2010 4:18 PMHappy Birthday!!!
Posted by: kris at February 17, 2010 4:18 PMHappy Birthday Sam! My little girl is about to turn one, and I'm trying really hard not to think about how soon she'll be sixteen!
Posted by: Chris at February 17, 2010 4:21 PMMy one and only turned 13 this week...the bar mitzvah is this Saturday. And I'm pretty sure that during the night last night he caught up to me in height.
Do you find it both exciting and heartbreaking? Sam is your last, Norbert is my only, and I find myself collecting "last times" . (You know, thinking to myself, "I have to remember this, because this may be the last time he watches a movie curled up on the couch with his head in my lap.") I know there is lots more excitement to come, but every time we turn a corner, I sort of mourn what we left behind.
Posted by: Aidan at February 17, 2010 4:22 PMHow exciting- It is my birthday, too! Happy birthday, Sam!
Posted by: Melynda at February 17, 2010 4:23 PMYes Sam, you did wake up "ridiculously beautiful"!!
Posted by: tootwisteddonna at February 17, 2010 4:25 PMHappiest of Birthdays, Sam from Sunny (for once) San Francisco Bay Area. How many moms can get people from all over the world to send birthday greetings???
Posted by: Kathi at February 17, 2010 4:27 PMHappy birthday Sam, hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy every minute of being 16!
Posted by: Laura at February 17, 2010 4:29 PMHAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! ^_^
Posted by: Conivialiddell at February 17, 2010 4:30 PMHave a very, very happy birthday, Sam! 16 is pretty awesome. Enjoy!
Posted by: Ashley at February 17, 2010 4:30 PMHappy birthday Sam! Have an awesome sixteenth and I wish you a great year. =)
Posted by: Lacee at February 17, 2010 4:30 PMHippo Birdy Two Ewes, Sam!
Posted by: Johanna at February 17, 2010 4:39 PMSorry there's no birthday cake for you, Sam. I ate it.
Try to have a good one, anyway.
Posted by: Marina Stern at February 17, 2010 4:42 PMHappy birthday, Sam!
And happy birth-ing day to you, Stephanie. :)
Posted by: Amber at February 17, 2010 4:44 PMHappy birthday, Samantha! I hope it is everything that you want it to be!
Posted by: CrazyCatMadame at February 17, 2010 4:44 PMHappy birthday to a beautiful young woman!
Posted by: Laurie Remenyi at February 17, 2010 4:44 PMHappy Birthday, Samantha!
Posted by: rudee at February 17, 2010 4:47 PMHappy birthday, Samantha! :)
Posted by: LadyTemeraire at February 17, 2010 4:50 PMHappy birthday and happy year to you, Sam, from another Samm. :) Happy birthday to you too, mum, 'cause it's a birth day for you, too. Love the photo memories.
Posted by: samm at February 17, 2010 4:54 PMHappy Birthday Samantha! Hope 16 is even funner :)
Posted by: Nicole at February 17, 2010 4:57 PMFabulous photo montage. Happy birthday to Sam!
Posted by: Mya at February 17, 2010 5:00 PMHappy Birthday!!
Posted by: Courtney at February 17, 2010 5:01 PMHappy Birthday, Sam! May this year be the happiest and best yet!
Posted by: Irish Clover at February 17, 2010 5:01 PMHappy Birthday Sweetie. You just gave me an excuse to go buy a birthday cake. When I blow out the candle for you, I'll be wishing you a fabulous future. Congrats Steph. She's amazing!
Posted by: Friday's Mom at February 17, 2010 5:02 PMyou're breaking my heart! i know 16 is on the horizon for my firstborn this year.... but i'm clinging to 15 as long as i can. all the best to your "baby"!
Posted by: christine m. east of toronto at February 17, 2010 5:02 PMI too have a child born this day. Cory is 23 today. The day he turned 16 we had a horrible ice storm (makes it easy to remember) and were without power for a week. Hope Sam's birthday is a great one. You guys can come over for cheesecake later if you want. It's Cory's favorite and we are only about ?eight hours away (Lexington, KY) by car.
Posted by: Kim Pierce at February 17, 2010 5:02 PMHappy birthday-if you turn out Just like your Mom and Dad you will make the world a better place.
Happy Birthday!! What a stunner Samantha is! Sixteen is quite a milestone -- my youngest is going to be 18 in April, so we're preparing to be a family of adults (more or less -- I may be reverting to early childhood).
Posted by: Lindsey (London) at February 17, 2010 5:10 PMHappy birthday to Sam! My "baby" Amy turns 7 years old today. I love your photo collage of the past year. I think I might do this for my girls. It's a great way to see them grow up.
Posted by: Kelly S at February 17, 2010 5:11 PMHappy birthday, Sam! What a wonderful photoessay of your year :)
Posted by: Jocelyn at February 17, 2010 5:13 PMHappy Birthday, Sam! Remember to tell your mother thank you, for having you, because every mother knows, it's not easy. Have a wonderful birthday, and remember, this may be hard on your mum.
Posted by: Heather P. at February 17, 2010 5:24 PMWow. You have turned into quite the beautiful almost-woman, and you have just about the best smile *ever*.
Posted by: inky at February 17, 2010 5:26 PMHappy birthday Sam. Wshing you fortitude for the year ahead.
Posted by: StellaMM at February 17, 2010 5:27 PMI can't believe I forgot to sing Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday, Dear Sam. Happy Birthday to You!
And many more...
Posted by: Aidan at February 17, 2010 5:33 PMWell, it seems wrong when your baby is an age you remember feeling and being yourself, and it seems impossible to believe that just a memory or so ago you were her age ... and really, honestly, dude ... do you feel old enough to have 3 almost fully grown independent women being your daughters?
How did they get all those extra years in when you (and I, of course) have only added a couple to our tally?
Age is hereditary ... we acquire it from our kids!
Happy birthday beautiful Sam, have a glass of wine Steph
x
Go Sam!! Have a Happy Birthday!
Is Mom paying for dinner? :)
Posted by: Anne Littlebird at February 17, 2010 5:48 PMHappy Birthday, Samantha!
Posted by: Panhandle Jane at February 17, 2010 5:52 PMDear beautiful Samantha, I feel like I've seen you grow from a cute little girl to a full fledged lovely young woman. All from watching and reading your Mom's blog. Happy Birthday and may this be your best year yet.
Posted by: JoanH at February 17, 2010 5:56 PMMy younger is 4 today. For our part, we celebrated with a homemade Jedi cloak and chocolate cake (with chocolate frosting to match the Jedi cloak). Hope your day was likewise shared and delicious!
Posted by: Allison at February 17, 2010 5:58 PMYou're the light in the dark of winter, Sam.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Sam,
Enjoy your day, and hug your Mom...
In Portugal people always ring the mother to say 'Congratulations' to the mother of the birthday boy or girl. So, as the English wife of a Portuguese man, 'Congratulations, Stephanie, on the birth and raising of all your lovely daughters, especially on the occasion of your youngest's birthday' and to Sam 'A very happy birthday! Keep your mother smiling; all of us lot out here need her!'
Posted by: Jenny at February 17, 2010 6:19 PMSixteen! And here I am losing my mind because my Sam (the boy variety) is nearly four.
Posted by: Annika at February 17, 2010 6:22 PMHappy Birthday to Samantha!! My son turns 16 in a few short months, so I echo your sentiments. As you know, from rearing older children, the time passes so quickly! Eat lots of cake and have a GRAND day!!
Posted by: Nathalie at February 17, 2010 6:35 PMHappy Birthday, Samantha! I admire your fortitude in having a mother who posts your picture on the internet all the time. ;-)
Posted by: Lisa at February 17, 2010 6:38 PMHappiest of birthdays to Sam. Lovely pics! My baby turns 18 this year and he'll soon be headed off to college to study nuclear engineering! It seems like yesterday he was the little boy who had to hold my hand to cross the street. One of these days I'll have to hold his...egad.
Posted by: Jody at February 17, 2010 6:40 PMHappy Sweet 16th, Samantha!
My youngest two are 30.5 years old, Stephanie. My eldest grand-daughter is 18 y/o. While, I know your angst...there isn't a dang thing you can do about it.
Posted by: Anne at February 17, 2010 6:45 PMHappy birthday Sam!
Posted by: Awfulknitter at February 17, 2010 6:50 PMHmm... Sour cream vanilla cake with apricot white chocolate whipped ganache? Sounds like "birthday" to me! Have a happy one!
Posted by: silfert at February 17, 2010 6:51 PMI think she looks the most like her mother of the girls....
Posted by: Mary Eckstein at February 17, 2010 7:08 PMHappy Birthday Sam. Wishing you a wonderful year and a continuing good life.
Posted by: Melissa at February 17, 2010 7:12 PMSamantha has the same thing going on that I did. She looks like she's 24 when she's really just 15. While that can be kind of scary for Mom, the good news, for her, is that she will continue to look like she's 24 until she's well past 30. ;-) Beautiful girl. Happy Birthday to Sam.
Posted by: rebecca at February 17, 2010 7:14 PMHappy Birthday Sam, love the snarly pic, and that you will allow your mum to post it. My girl is turning 16 in 21 days, what a special birthday. Stephanie, in Holland you congratulate the mother as well (after all, she did all the hard work 16 years ago) so ... happy birthday to you too!
Posted by: Astrid at February 17, 2010 7:21 PMThe best of birthdays to Sam and her immediate and extended family. Was that a bottle of red wine I saw? Great way to celebrate. Cheers and red wine, Hazel.
Posted by: Hazel Smith at February 17, 2010 7:49 PMWow. When did all that happen? It seems only six years ago Sam was ten.....the older we get, the faster it goes.
Posted by: marie in NJ at February 17, 2010 7:56 PMWe're having "Birthday Party Weather" out here in California, and I wondered why it was so glorious. Now I know. It was in Sam's honor. (honour?)
Happy Birthday, Sam!
You say it's your birthday --
It's my birthday, too--oo.
Happy, happy day!
Posted by: carol at February 17, 2010 8:07 PMHappy birthday Sam and to you too Stephanie!
Posted by: Linda-Kaye at February 17, 2010 8:10 PMThe picture where Sam is on the table with the hat? She looks so much like you in that pic. Lovely daughters, lovely mother.
Posted by: fibergal at February 17, 2010 8:38 PMHappy birthday, Sam!
Posted by: (formerly) no-blog-rachel at February 17, 2010 8:50 PMGlad to see you speak VSL (Vulcan Sign Language), Samantha. Live long and prosper, and have a wonderful birthday!
Posted by: Christine at February 17, 2010 9:14 PMNuff said. Life is So good..really!
Posted by: brenda at February 17, 2010 9:32 PMGoodness, BOTH of your girls are just lovely!
Posted by: Heidi at February 17, 2010 9:49 PMHappy Sweet 16 Samantha!
Posted by: Knitter Kitter at February 17, 2010 9:53 PMAdorable! I made Sam's Blanket for a brand new baby recently. And my baby turned 31 on Feb. 15. It's a very good month for beautiful young women to be born.
Posted by: capsize at February 17, 2010 9:55 PMFrom one Sam in Toronto to another, have a GREAT birthday!
Posted by: Sam at February 17, 2010 9:56 PMJust remember... without our mothers, we would be a nobody. Literally. Happy birthday to both Sam and Steph... Hope your next year is full of blessings!
Posted by: Beth Rasmussen at February 17, 2010 10:59 PMHappy birthday, sweet Samantha! I think you have a very proud mum :-)
Posted by: Melinda at February 17, 2010 11:01 PM(Tried sending from my phone earlier during a power outage, doesn't seem to have gone through.) Happy Birthday, Sam! (Quick, typing it again while it's still your birthday!)
Posted by: AlisonH at February 17, 2010 11:05 PMHappy birthday, Sam! (My baby turns 14 in a couple of months. How did this happen?)
Posted by: Lucia at February 17, 2010 11:17 PMHAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM!
(Steph, my oldest is 16 and he just asked me if we could move to Canada so he could get to be friends with Sam. He said, quote, She looks like a very nice girl who would be fun to hang with. At least if he has other-than-honorable-16-year-old-hormonally-charged intentions, he didn't mention them.) ;)
Your Samantha shares a birthday with my Tristan. He turned 23 today. Happy Birthday, Samantha and Tristan!
Posted by: Marji at February 17, 2010 11:37 PMHappy Birthday, Sam! I'm the "baby" as well.
Steph, she will hate you for publishing some of those pics. LOL
Love the pics. Happy Birthday!
Posted by: tiah at February 18, 2010 12:18 AMMany happy returns, Sam! Hope it was a fantastic day and the beginning of a wonderful year for you. From the looks of the pictures, if it's anything like the last year, well, all I can say is WOW!
And Steph, happy anniversary of popping out the last one - enjoy a glass of your fave and remember how it was 16 years ago today!
Posted by: Baraka at February 18, 2010 12:54 AMHappy Birthday, Samantha! Hope 16 treats you well. :)
Posted by: Tamara at February 18, 2010 2:00 AMI've always said I never was conscious of getting older until I had kids.... one year makes very little difference to me now..... what is the difference between 62 and 63, after all?) But the difference between 6 months and 18 months is enormous!
So you are making me feel very old, Sam..... I've been watching you grow up for 5 years now, and I must say, you have been doing it very beautifully. And if you have gone from 11 to 16, I must have been changing and growing too. I just hope I've been maturing as successfully as you have!
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Barbara M. at February 18, 2010 4:07 AMHappy birthday, Samantha, from the Netherlands. Sixteen is kind of special all over the world. (Allthough over here you are not allowed to drive a car untill you are eightieen)Happy day to your family too, enjoy.
Posted by: margreet at February 18, 2010 5:32 AMOh my! What a beautiful and confident young woman you are, Sam! Happy Birthday!
Posted by: alison at February 18, 2010 6:24 AMHappy 16th Birthday! I hope you had a fantastic day!
Posted by: milissa at February 18, 2010 7:31 AMHappy Birthday Sam! My sweet daughter turned 16 yesterday too. Be good to your Mum, she loves you!
Posted by: Melissa at February 18, 2010 7:46 AMhave a fabulous birthday and a terrific year, Sam!!!
Posted by: lauragayle at February 18, 2010 8:00 AMCongratulations Stephanie! You're in the home stretch! Pretty soon you'll have three "all growed up". I adored my baby, I loved my little girl and now I am so proud and pleased with the young woman (31) she has turned in to. May it be so for you. All best wishes for Sam.
Posted by: KarenJ at February 18, 2010 8:00 AMHappy birthday Sam! Wishing you health, happiness, prosperity and cake.
Posted by: radmeister at February 18, 2010 8:22 AMWait, what do you mean 16? She was a little kid 10 minutes ago!
Happy birthday, Sam... many happy returns! :)
Posted by: Mary Peed at February 18, 2010 8:31 AMHappy Birthday, Sam!
Posted by: Rosane at February 18, 2010 9:16 AMHope your day was filled with love and presents--and cake! Happy 16th, Sam!
All the best to you, Steph. She's on the threshold of life and look at what a great job you did getting her there! Congrats.
Posted by: Barbara at February 18, 2010 9:19 AMCongratulations, Stephanie. Samantha is a lovely girl, One minute they are your baby, and hey - all of a sudden your baby is sixteen. (My baby girl is forty this year - what happened there!?) Sam - happy birthday, sweetheart - live long and prosper.
Posted by: rosie at February 18, 2010 9:21 AMHappy Birthday Samantha! Here's to a fabulous year!
It's amazing how fast sixteen years pass, isn't it? I've got a pair of sixteen year old girls - seems like they were just born. Then I look at the photo albums and see my much younger self and realize how much time has passed.
Posted by: Kirsten at February 18, 2010 9:30 AMWhat a pretty girl! Happy Birthday Sam!
Posted by: Emily at February 18, 2010 10:02 AMHippo birdies, Samantha! May your year be full of adventures and joy.
Posted by: Duffy at February 18, 2010 11:20 AMHAPPY BIRTHDAY SAMANTHA!!!
May your joys and dreams be many...
and your sorrows be none!
Blessed Be.
Happy Birthday to Sam! I hope it's a great year.
Posted by: Dorothy at February 18, 2010 12:07 PMToday Today Today Today
Today is somebody's Birthday
Today Today Today Today
Today is somebody's Birthday
It's not the pickle's or the pear's
It's not the elephant's or the bear's
Today Today Today Today
Today is Samantha's Birthday!!!
Happy Sweet 16!
Posted by: Melisssa G at February 18, 2010 12:13 PMHappy Sweet 16 Sam. And be extra nice to Mum. It's really hard when your baby grows up!
Posted by: Tish at February 18, 2010 12:22 PMWhat a lovely young lady! I hope that 16 is the year you wish you could have again when you're a lot older!
Posted by: Betty Penick at February 18, 2010 12:39 PMi feel so sorry for joe
Posted by: Christian Stoll at February 18, 2010 1:30 PMHappy Birthday to Sam! Oh my gosh - she looks sooo much like her mommy :-)
Posted by: Donna at February 18, 2010 1:42 PMHappy Birthday, Samantha! Many, many more!
Posted by: Ellen-Mary at February 18, 2010 2:04 PMHappy Birthday,Sam,
Number 16 is a milestone year,Have a good blessed and safe year. My youngest turns 16 in June. I see Driving permits and lincences in the future .Steph where did our babies go?
Happy Birthday Sam!
Posted by: Dr. Steph at February 18, 2010 3:25 PMHappy birthday, Sam!
Posted by: Laura at February 18, 2010 5:10 PMHappy Birthday Sam!
(try to do something nice for your mom for all the hard work)
Posted by: Jeremy at February 18, 2010 5:19 PMHappy birthday, Sam!
Posted by: Kat with a K at February 18, 2010 7:12 PMMay she (and her awesome Mum) live long AND prosper!
Posted by: susan at February 18, 2010 8:16 PMwow, what beauty to go with those brains and character. Nice job mom, dad and Sam!
Posted by: cecelia at February 18, 2010 10:52 PMStephanie, you have such beautiful daughters! When I get around to having children, I hope I'm lucky enough to have children as wonderful as yours. Congratulations to both of you for making it to this point, and here's hoping that life keeps getting better.
Posted by: G. Knerd at February 19, 2010 2:08 AMHappy Birthday, Sam!
Posted by: Rachael at February 19, 2010 9:52 AMHappy birthday, Sam! Hope it was a great one.
Posted by: Samina at February 20, 2010 1:38 PMA little late, but Happy Birthday! I hope you had a great day.
Posted by: Victoria at February 20, 2010 1:40 PMStephanie, I met you last summer at the Saskatchewan Stitchers conference, (took you to the airport). You told me the brand of dpn's you use but I have misplaced that name. Can I get it again from you? Sorry, but this was the only way I could find to contact you.
Thanks,
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Posted by: truncNor at February 26, 2010 2:51 AMA belated Happy Birthday Sam. I think I've been wishing you a Happy Birthday since you were 10 or 11 but that may be an exaggeration. You have grown into a lovely young woman. Much happiness and wonderful surprises are wished for you in the coming year!
Posted by: Jane in NC at February 26, 2010 10:15 AM