more birthday!

This is the awesome place we took the kiddos for their birthdays. It's called the Grilled Cheese Grill, and it came highly recommended (thanks, Raina!). They have lots of varieties of cheesy bliss. It's Y-U-M-M-Y! And, it was a big hit with EVERYONE.

Yes, you actually eat in a BUS! So fun!

Yummy chocolate cake (but very ugly! I'll try harder on the REAL cakes, coming up for the "friend" parties!).

Olivia had a great birthday, and was elated with everything. She has grown up into such a darling young lady, and we are very PROUD of her. She has become responsible for her things, and quite often her younger siblings. She helps around the house, earns allowance, and spends it carefully. She loves to organize ANYTHING. She often asks, "hey Mom, can I organize this drawer for you, it's a MESS!" She LOVES school, soccer, and being with friends. She loves music and SINGS all the time. Our favorites are her shower numbers. Lovely, really. She loves to play on Webkinz. She is really into making her habitats super fun for her pets! She is my BIG girl, and I am so grateful she came into our family 9 years ago! Happy Birthday, sweetie!

Happy NINTH birthday, Olivia!

Happy NINTH birthday to my little girl! It was her MAGIC birthday this year, because she turned NINE on 9/9/09. Very ENCHANTED, really! She LOVED her special day. She chose to have Swedish Pancakes for breakfast, with whipped cream, of course. YUM!

Here she is with her new POGO-stick, get jumping, little girl!!!

Her new birthday outfit! Her shirt is "scratch and sniff" cupcakes! That's a nice thing to smell all day on your birthday, right?

Here are the cupcakes we took into her class. Little soccer RINGS. So fun!

And, here she is in her birthday crown (that she decided to make for herself=DIVA)!

She also scored a WHALE Webkinz (which she is very excited about because it swims in a bubble all around Webkinz World) and some PIXOS, which she did until too late last night.