Emelia's Birthday

I refer you to Becky's blog for the story around the birthday cake, and I do recommend it. Truly a sad story.

I met Becky, Mike and the kids at the Red Robin restaurant in the Northgate Mall for a birthday celebration. Her friends Cynthia and Carrie were there with their husbands and Margery was there, but still waiting for her boyfriend, who is in Ohio. Becky has done a great job staying close to the friends she made in high school and they seem to always be around for her family celebrations. That's really been great, as they're fun and good people. They go out of their way to spoil Becky's kids, which is also fun. The highlight gift of the day was a huge pink stuffed pony that Cynthia and Dan gave Emelia. Emmy loved it right away and started riding it and hugging it. Another big hit was the quilt from Margery with scenes from the Wizard of Oz. Emelia loves that movie and the quilt was beautiful-Margery made it with help from her mom, who is a very talented seamstress. Emmy declared it a blanket for her horse, but from her that was meant as high praise.

I love this picture of Cynthia with Zack. That kid fell asleep during dinner, despite the din of the busy restaurant, and managed to even sleep through the wait staff singing the birthday song!

Becky's fourth effort at a cake for Emelia turned out great, as you can see from these pictures Becky took at the party on Monday. Emelia really looks like quite the ballerina princess and the cake is outstanding!