Alesia doesn’t like birthdays. The rest of our family however, does. So… we went ahead and celebrated Alesia’s birthday on Monday anyways. I’m kind of mean that way. Haha.


*Julia made a Happy Birthday sign.

Personally, I have a hard time believing ANYONE could ‘truly’ hate birthdays. I think any cause to celebrate, should be, celebrated! There’s enough difficult days to make it through in a year that any justification in making a day truly special is well worth while! One year, I threw my own birthday party! I let everyone know I didn’t want gifts, I simply wanted to celebrate! If it didn’t seem so wrong, I’d probably throw myself a birthday party every year.

On Monday, Alesia had to work 7am-4pm. That was kind of a bummer, however, it gave us the whole day to get ready.

Elsa made her cake! Elsa LOVES to make cakes. Her very favorite tv show is Cake Boss. She planned out this cake for days.

She made it two layers, with icing in between, then put on a ‘crumb coat’, and dug out her ‘pond’.

As Alesia’s birthday gift, Elsa bought her a schleich horse and rather then wrap it up, she used it as the main part of her cake decoration. She spent the entire day making this cake.

Shaylah and Julia also got creative with cake & fondant.

Shaylah loves to make tiny things.

When we picked up Alesia from work and brought her home, she wasn’t totally thrilled we were celebrating, but I think she knew to expect it.

And we even got a few smiles.

It seems so ‘strange’ to have a 20 year old daughter.
Wasn’t it just yesterday that I held her in my arms for the first time?