For her birthday dinner she chose to go to The Moonlight. It's a little restaurant just off base and I should have brought the camera. The boys told the staff it was Lizzy's birthday and it paid off. Her Fanta arrived in a glass with orange wedges, 2 umbrellas and a sparkler in it. Then, after dinner, they brought out a 3 layer dish (plates stacked on top of glasses, held together with what looked like molasses) with watermelon wedges and more sparklers on top. It was great! Lizzy decided to try something new for dinner, but switched with me after taking a bite. She had ordered the meat and cheese bread (pide) without realizing it came with diced tomatoes and parsley on top. I enjoyed it and she ate my Adana kebab. We both ended up happy.
After dinner we walked home and had some cake. Lizzy had chosen lemon cake with lemon frosting. Her daddy wasn't thrilled, but managed to eat a small piece. The rest of us enjoyed it. As you can see, I got very creative decorating it.
After cake came presents! She opened the ones from Gramma and Grampa Texas first. I'm only going to include a couple of pictures because some didn't come out very well, but she got 4 books, some magnetic bookmarks and an outfit from them.
They called us right after this so we took a break from opening presents to talk to them. I'll have to take a picture of Lizzy in the outfit and post it some other time. Next came the gifts from us. The boys gave her a new Nintendo DS game (actually 2 puzzle games in one) and Keri gave her an iCarly CD. Ben and I gave her an alarm clock with a CD player and an iPod dock (for use when she eventually gets an iPod).
She still has a present coming in the mail from Gramma Connie and Papa Ray, so it looks like her birthday is getting stretched out (the better to be enjoyed). She says it was a good birthday.
Speaking of birthdays....Ben had one not too long ago too. Here's a picture of the cake I made for him.
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