We celebrated my birthday on 12/5.  It was almost 60 degrees and dry.  That was a gift in and of itself!  I do think I might be in the running for Mother of the Year as I asked to celebrate at Chuck E. Cheese’s.

I LOVE their salad bar.

We all love crowns.

And the kids all love games.

Marie really wasn’t unhappy.  She was trying to smirk.

There’s a tragic funny story about this cake. 
I wanted carrot cake. 
I worked hard to make my multi-stepped, four-layer carrot cake.
And after I made the homemade cream cheese frosting and slathered it all over the cake I took a taste of the left over frosting.
It was bad.
My buttermilk powder had spoiled.
I didn’t cry.  But I came close.  And I went and found a box mix and made this instead.  With mayonaise and cinnamon.   It was a good consolation prize.

Afterward we went next door and peeked around the furniture store.  Johanna fielded a bunch of misguided “Happy Birthday” wishes before she questioned why she was getting so many greetings.  I removed her crown.  LOL.

The kids test drove some furniture and offered many suggestions.  We took none of them.

It was a super fun evening.