Monday, October 27, 2008

Big Birthday Weekend!

Aside from the craft fair I took part in, there were two birthday parties this weekend as well! And they were for 3 kids all under the age of 5!

Saturday we celebrated the 2ND birthday of Madison Studer. She's a little fire cracker! Her fuse is quite short when she's tired. But she is such a cutie pie! Her birthday is actually today but we all gathered over the weekend because the Studer's had out-of-town family members visiting. Scott BBQ'd hamburgers and they also had hot dogs in a slow cooker for the main course.

The birthday theme was "Elmo" from Sesame Street. The cake was made by our good friend Halli. She works at Sam's Club in the bakery. It was a huge round cake and very tall and very red! The frosting was actually applied with a special decorating tip that made it look like the long stringy fur that Elmo is noted for. I'm only sorry that I didn't have my camera there to get some pictures. In order for you to know how talented Halli is, you may recall her work with this.



After taking pictures of Madison with her cake and watching her get all red from the frosting, we cut into it. It was served with chocolate chip ice cream. Very good!

She had already torn into the gifts from everyone and was delighted with each and every one. She would say "Mine?" after her Mom Lisa would tell her whom it was from. And she wanted to play with each toy the minute the paper came off. But she quickly forgot about them as soon as she saw that she had another gift to open. Too cute! It never gets old watching little ones with presents. There is so much excitement that you can't help but smile with them.

Happy Birthday Madison!