Birthday Highlights

Miss A had a good birthday and enjoyed her birthday cake and ice cream very much. Here are a few highlights from our family celebration that evening...please excuse any spaghetti stained clothes and/or faces - we just couldn't wait to get to the good stuff, ie, chocolate!


Here's the cake....a chocolate torte that we found in the Betty Crocker "New Cookbook" - mine wasn't as "perfect" looking as the one in the cookbook, but hey, I didn't have a team of chefs to help make it look "just so"....


Blowing out the candles....



We had chocolate milkshakes (do you see a theme here? CHOCOLATE!). Miss A said we were having "Frosties" (like the ones at Wendy's) and when I asked her how the cake and ice cream/milkshakes were, she replied.....


Present time! Hooray!

Here she is holding a package from her big sister who not only made the wrapping paper, but the gift as well:


The gift was a box she found at Hobby Lobby and then painted in Miss A's favorite colors - the box is intended for Miss A to put her rock collection into.


And, the grand finale, a surprise present that we brought out at the end so she wouldn't see the size of the box and guess its contents....a horse just like her big sister got for Christmas. Miss A had seen this one at Target and said it was the one she wanted. We had already gotten a black horse since she'd talked about a black one for awhile, but on a trip to the store a few days before her birthday she saw this palomino and said she liked it better than the black one.....you guessed it, another "secret" trip to Target to swap horses...good thing I hadn't already wrapped the black one!



The horses are now both stabled happily in the girls' room. Pretty soon the girls will have to move out if any more horses join the family - or we'll have to build an actual stable!

That's all folks!