Happy Birthday Big Girl Elle!!

Happy Birthday Elle! My baby girl is 3! She is growing up so fast! She's just short of 40 inches tall and speaks to everyone, about everything, all the time - unless she's decided she's "shy" momentarily. She LOVES her dance class. She started tap and ballet class last month and wishes she could go everyday. She also started a once a week Child's Day Out program, that she loves most days. She is certainly proud to carry her own Dora lunch box into school and hang it on her hook labelled "Elle."

Elle is a dedicated dresser-upper starting each day with a carefully picked dress-up gown and shoes - the shoes being the most important element of the outfit. (So much like her daddy, about the shoes, not the dressing up, lol) Her favorite dress is a little unconventional: her Dora night gown. You can see it in the "Huntie Cafe" post.

YEAH! The newest Grandma dollie! My mom made this amazing little doll from her late mother's bathrobe. She's been making one for each of her grandchildren's birthdays this year. Here is Ellie's! So beautiful! She gushes pink and lacy and ruffly and girly, complete with jeweled slippers and crown. PERFECT to represent Elle. And as you can see, Elle approves.





In true Adams fashion, I decorated Ellie's bed with streamers so she would be celebrated the moment she woke up. So fun! I'm pretty sure Michael and Huntie were more excited about it than Elle. Oh well, she'll get the hang of it eventually. LOL.



We had birthday cake at grammy and papa's house on Sunday with daddy before he left for Norway. I made a doll cake, like my mommy used to make for me. SO fun! I really had a blast decorating that cake. I hope Michael likes doll cakes because I will be making them from now on, lol. Nah, I'll leave the rest of the cake making to grammy.


Elle was clearly pleased. *success*




This is what happens when you layer pink strawberry cake batter, then funfetti cake batter, then strawberry cake batter in a glass bowl. Looks SOOOoo cool!! Not to mention yummy.

Happy 34 Kevin!!

YEAH! Happy Birthday Kev!

We celebrate our favorite councilman, vice president and daddy of the century on his 34th birthday!



Kevin's mom made his all time favorite birthday cake - homemade cherry cheesecake! In fact, she made lots of cakes! No one was left wanting as there was more than enough cake to go around. Especially since I also made my handsome husband a cake out of his favorite cookie: peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.

Happy Birthday to Meeeee!

Janibop started my birthday out right by taking me to IHOP for my birthday breakfast, complete with a surprise ice cream sundae. YUM!




THEN, later that day, my wonderful Voisin family celebrated with me too!

YUMMY Sarah Cake!

A Super Michael Mario Kart Birthday

Happy 6th Birthday Michael Bichael!! We all had so much fun at his Mario Kart Birthday! Just check out his invite! (I'm really proud of this one! I made four different styles with four different Mario Kart characters - Bowzers, and orange, is Michael's favorite)


Voila! Grammy's custom deluxe Mario Kart birthday cake. Michael special ordered a half vanilla with vanilla frosting and half chocolate with chocolate frosting cake from his expert cake-makin' grammy. She used Fruit by the Foot for the track and real remote control Mario Karts on top.




The kids played a Mario Kart Wii tournament, of course. I'm pretty sure everyone ended up winning.


And, ahhhh, the presents. What a happy Michael. Thanks friends!



Mike was happy to let his guests help him tear into his gifts and even help him in the unwrapping. SO fun!


Happy Birthday Michael! We are so proud of you! You are growing up to be such a wonderful boy! We love you!!

Happy Un-birthday Michael!

Michael's 6th birthday falls exactly ONE week after the end of school. So, Mrs. Caillouet permitted him to celebrate a couple weeks early with his class. He choose key lime pies for his treat! Yum!

Scottie PaTottie's Chuck E Cheese Celebration

Happy 3rd Birthday Scottie!! Scottie invited us to Chuck E Cheese to celebrate his 3rd birthday. The kids have never had so much weeknight fun! The birthday was on the run all night and I never got a good shot of him. I guess you call that a successful party!

Happy 9th Birthday to Huntie

I can't believe Huntie is NINE! Every year she gets older, I just can't believe how much she's grown. Maybe it's because she's my oldest and the first to reach these milestones. My Huntie is just such an amazing person. She is a true friend and a tender daughter. I love every minute with her and continually learn from her observations of life.

We celebrated her birthday with Angel Food Cake filled with vanilla ice cream and covered in whipped cream. Huntie is a vanilla girl - straight up. If we could have added 10 more vanilla toppings to that cake, she would have been thrilled. Alas, we stopped at a vanilla cake, with vanilla filling and vanilla icing. We broke up the monotony with fresh fruit. But Huntie was thrilled with the vanillaness of it all. Success!




Of course, you can't have cans of whipped cream at any event without SOMEONE getting creamed. Huntie was the winner here today.





Huntie's menu for our after-church-lunch celebration: ham and cheese sandwiches on white bread with mayo and iceberg lettuce, baked Lays, veggie tray and the pre-cut apple slices from Sam's (We LOVE those!), and of course, vanilla dressed Angel Food Cake (did you know those cakes take 12 egg whites to make?!!).


Uncle Greg, Aunt Jenn, Scottie and Bronson, Aunt Amy, Uncle Marcelo, Dyami and Amy's unborn baby, Aunt Sandy, Uncle Brett, Nathaniel and Roland all joined us. Plus, Janice, our friend Clarence and the Sister Missionaries made an appearance too!



All the little cousins were "Commanders," saving the world in grammy and papa's backyard all afternoon. Huntie was so happy, she had to dance for joy!