B's B-day!!!

Isn't she looking like a fabulously gorgeous young lady these days?!  

Hard to believe my oldest is one more year closer to double digits.

This was the most compact we have had a birthday in our family for quite some time.  It all started one day and ended the next.  Only a span of 2 days!  Wow!!  The first day was pretty much just me taking Costco creme puffs to school to celebrate with all her classmates.  The schools around here are so different that way--they don't allow homemade treats--so that was different.  This pic above is from birthday morning.  We decided to open just our family presents in the morning to get things started off.  She was quite thrilled with these magnetic earrings.

Well, we had to get her something to put the earrings IN!  (or maybe it was the other way around :) )  She also got a new pair of running shorts since she is thinking about doing a triathlon this summer.  Bro and Sis gave her a puzzle of Cape May.   Then she was off to choir where they sang "Happy  Birthday" to her, then she was out to lunch with me, then a friend party and ended the day with a family party BBQ extravaganza.  Whew!  Que divertido!  What a perfect day for her!!

Welcoming activity to B's friend party

"Fruit Head" game where the girls were on teams and had to throw more Fruit Loops on their Fruit Head Gal than the other team.  They had a blast with this game!

This year I turned the cake decorating over to the gals.  But first they had to go on a treasure hunt to find the goodies to go on the cakes.  They had SO much fun with this.  B enjoys a Rainbow Fairies book series and one is the Birthday Fairy so I set a note on the cakes that Jack Frost had stolen all the goodies and Belle, the Birthday Fairy, needed their help to find them before J.F. could sneak them back to the north.  This is essentially the theme of most of the books so they loved playing out a real hunt themselves.  

Fun & Cute cakes for Fun & Cute gals.  :)

Birthday Girl & her purdy cake

We love our B so much.  She is so kind, sweet and caring.  She wears her emotions on her sleeve and fortunately they are most often giving and happy emotions.  She makes friends very easily because of her kind nature as evidenced by quickly being surrounded by friends every time we move--which has been many times in her years.  She loves singing, playing piano, reading, playing with friends and family, soccer, being outdoors, doing her own hair, taking pictures, riding her bike and scooter, learning new things,  creating arts and crafts and being helpful.  We are pleased with what a lovely young lady she is.  We love you B!