Despite a crazy day on September 5, the Lord enabled us to squeeze in a nice little birthday celebration for our eldest, Grace. We splurged and ordered pizza for dinner. Grace and Elizabeth worked together to make Grace's cake. Grandma Dianne arranged for the girls to take a cake decorating class earlier this summer, so homemade birthday cakes have now fallen into their domain.
Elizabeth made a yellow cake from the 1950's Betty
Crocker Cookbook and Grace made a chocolate
ganache to cover the cake layers. Grace also decorated the cake. So after dinner we had cake and ice cream. The birthday girl then opened her presents. Her main gift was a
serger sewing machine which I bought from a woman at church who was upgrading her machine. I haven't a clue about how to use it, but I know Grace will dig right in and figure it out, as she always does.
Lydia decided Grace's birthday would not be complete without a pinata. Since Lydia's birthday is in the dead of winter, pinatas are never a part of her celebrations. So self-serving as the suggestion was, I obliged Lydia. We went to
Walmart together to pick out the perfect pinata and all the right candy to fill it. Of course the little kids were
ecstatic when the pinata surprise was revealed. Even the big birthday girl was impressed. Fun and sugar highs abounded.
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