{"id":1818,"date":"2011-09-01T17:14:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2011-09-01T17:14:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:14:05","slug":"alesias-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/alesias-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Alesia’s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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\n*Julia made a Happy Birthday sign.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

As Alesia’s birthday gift, Elsa bought her a schleich\u00a0horse 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.<\/p>\n

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Shaylah and Julia also got creative with cake & fondant.<\/p>\n

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Shaylah loves to make tiny things.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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And we even got a few smiles.<\/p>\n

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It seems so ‘strange’ to have a 20 year old daughter.
\nWasn’t it just yesterday that I held her in my arms for the first time?<\/em><\/p>\n

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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, […]<\/p>\n

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