Happy Birthday!!!

Alli and Ryan both have their birthdays in March. Alli was loving the whole birthday deal. She will tell you even now if you ask that she was not 3 before her "cake" but when she had her cake then she was 3 and she knows what day her birthday is-March 10th. And obviously she thought the present idea was pretty awesome. She wanted to "practice" blowing out candles so the day before I think she blew candles out on her pancakes and then 2 or 3 times on her birthday. It was a great day and we milked it for all we could. She even had a "birthday date" with grandma Palmer while I was setting things up for her party-not sure who benefitted more me by having the quiet time or her by going :). The best part of the day was when she got her violin because we had been so sneaky so she didn't know it was coming or that she was getting one, but when we handed her the present she said "it's my violin." So apparently she had a little too much faith in us getting her what she was wanting?? She had been asking to play the violin since August when she saw a little girl on a movie playing it, and we kept telling her maybe she could get one for her birthday. She had so much fun playing it and all the kids were dancing around and singing.
At Red Robin with her birthday cupcake.
Modeling her new sunglasses and flip flops in her birthday pajamas-and a random dress up skirt :). .
Playing her violin
Her "princess cake"- I am (obviously) NOT any sort of cake decorator, but she was happy with it so it worked.
Her surprise balloons from Ilene-we put some bracelets and rings to hold the balloons down and whenever she wears them she is sure to tell us-these are from Ilene for my birthday :).

And Ryan's birthday seemed to be a little "anti-climactic" after a child's birthday, but it was still a fun day. We went to Ruby River for lunch and had a little birthday par-tay complete with leftover princess napkins and cups from Alli's birthday-what 28 year old man doesn't want Ariel and Aurora napkins??? But obviously Ryan does not care about the details and when asked what kind of cake her wanted-he said I didn't need to make a cake :). He had ice cream cake at work so we went with Funfetti from a box-his favorite boxed cake flavor. And showcasing my less than impressive cake decorating skills we did a basketball cake. The lucky birthday boy did get a cool underwater camera/videocamera (that he picked out himself and double score we got a great deal at Sam's Club!) that has been fun to use. And he was fortunate enough to get special birthday balloons picked out by Alli :). Doesn't he look thrilled having his picture taken with his cake??? The highlight of the evening was most likely playing Just Dance 2 on the Wii-so fun!