We love you and wish you the brightest and best of days, the happiest and healthiest future. No matter how much you have grown you will always be our beautiful baby boy. Today you might have just turned 18, but within you has always been the man you were meant to be: kind and courageous, endearing and intelligent beyond measure, a leader and an example to others.
Everyday I thank... your Mother for giving me an incredible child, a great son, a treasure from our hearts. You are my pride and joy, a man (now) after my own heart. I am truly proud of you. I believe she would be too.
Thank you for allowing us to be the best parents (all your parents and grandparents and uncles and aunts and extended family included) we can be, just by being yourself - a wonderful, thoughtful son.