Birthday Celebration

So on August 20th we headed down to Disney!  Annie, Esther, you and me!  We had a lot of fun.

 

Then on the 21st (your birthday) we went to Pizza Vito for special pizza dinner:

and then to the local Game room/miniture golf, climbing area, with a dancing game.  We had a family blast.  You and Essie loved climbing in the huge play area. 

We only made it through 9 holes of mini golf before we needed a bathroom break and we never made it back out there. 

We also collected tickets from the game room and spent it on, you guess it… candy in the trading shop.  We had a blast Adeline. 

Meme and Papa took us out for Japanese Steak House dinner.  You dressed appropriately.  Here you are with the shoe dessert we had after dinner in your dress.

So then what else you might ask did we do….well we had a part at the beach just like you asked for the past 6 months:

Above is Adeline as we arrived at the beach… she was READY!

So we had a most excellent destination party for Adeline at Anastasia State Park on the beach (with an excellent picnic area – we had the gazebo spot).

Thanks to all who drove across the state to attend.  She had so much fun.  The day was a very cloudy (no direct sunlight all day) day.  It seemed it would rain at a moments notice and only sprinkled for about 30 or so minutes… not bad.  The kiddos has fun in the water, fun in the sand. Adeline, Esther and I buried some treasure in the sand earlier in the day and had all the friend do an adventure race ending at the treasure finding area. 

Above they are lined up for the adventure of jumping over the rope, filling cups with ocean water and racing back to the treasure area.  Below I think Gracie found some treasure:

Bryan cooked hamburgers.  We had a great dinner.  Adeline wanted a glass slipper for a cake.  I had learned earlier in the week when I tried to do a double layer cake and cut it out in the shape that it was not stable.  So we went with a single layer cake and decorated it to look like a shoe.  She loved it.  She and Esther added sprinkles before we left.  I froze all of it the night before the beach hoping it would help the homemade icing last.  Jill gave me the website of some delicious butter cream icing and the secret that you substitute some almond extract in for the vanilla (not all of course).  It has been on all her girls cakes and is rather delish! Once we had the cake at the party Adeline then decorated the cake with “beach umbrellas”.  The umbrellas were a hit as all wanted one.  (Didn’t see that coming, so of course there were not enough – sorry kiddos!) While we were there a wedding occurred on the beach.  Adeline was very enamored.  Unfortunately it happened right when it was raining.  Sorry for them.

Being a Conrad I have always learned to expect an adventure.  This fine day the matches were a little wet, so we lit them with the half cold coals.  It only took a few folks, but it got done:

Another super fun party day fact:  Squirrels decided to eat through our “green/recycle” bags in hunt for the roasted peanuts (fully closed in their packaging). 

Some random cute photos:

(Sweet Jonathan who was in her 3yr old class and probably the only student she talks about regularly from that class… good buddies at school and church)

(Sweet Gracie and Claire – with Jonathan too.  We live real close to Gracie and Claire and catch up almost once a week for play dates, great buddies.)

Julia looking for treasure with Esther (Julia loves Addy and both the girls love to find Julia on Sunday’s at church, it is like a Where’s Waldo game until they do):

Some other cuties having fun on the beach (Sammy loves Addy, watches videos and always looking for a hug so sweet!  Kate is a dear friend of Essie’s and Adeline):

The gang (Julia was just arriving – sorry we missed you, though you can see her way back there!):

I am having video difficulties, otherwise I would have some birthday singing… maybe another day!