A Mellow Brick Road...: Birthday Party Sunday Sister Kelly

Though her birthday was Wednesday, Mommy organized around all of our work schedules to plan a birthday party for today for Sister Kelly. You, Ms. Bodhi, and Mommy were going to make her a lemon cake for her birthday but we discovered this morning we didn’t have eggs for the recipeL.

So, after our morning routine of Sunday newspaper reading and news program viewing, and breakfast for babiesJ, Daddy made a run to Marsh and ordered a “Happy Birthday Sister Kelly” birthday cake (chocolate cake with vanilla icing [and balloon motif :) and vanilla ice cream and some condiments for our cookout, and then hurried home to help prepare for our party.

Sister Kelly and Brother Aaron came over and Mommy and the two of you, Ms. Bodhi and Mister Buddha, accompanied by the birthday girl Sister Kelly, all went to an antique store to scope something out (Mommy returned with a Cat in the Hat Christmas tree---don’t ask :). Meanwhile Daddy cooked hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill for our birthday dinner.

No one else joined us, and Daddy felt sort of sad about that, but Sister Kelly seemed to enjoy our dinner and celebration cake and ice cream and her gifts for her birthday celebration---she also had other birthday treats from Aaron’s family, so Daddy reconciled his sense of disappointment for her. Sean Franky was out of town and Grandmoo was still recovering. After our birthday celebration, and seeing Sister Kelly and Brother Aaron off, we all settled in for the evening. It seemed like a very exhausting day, at least to Daddy, who admittedly has been suffering unusually high anxiety recentlyL.

Frankly, Daddy is at a loss to understand his feeling so down, when it is so obvious how blessed we are as a loving family---and a good life! Daddy thinks it is some health issues haunting Daddy both physically and emotionally, but Daddy will make a comeback.

All-in-all, we enjoyed a day of love, celebrating Sister Kelly’s birthday and sharing the blessing of our close family. Happy birthday, Sister Kelly, we love you—to the moon and back. And over the rainbow.

Your baby brother and sister want to spend the night with youJ!

Beautiful Sister Kelly's first 29th birthday :)

Brother Aaron :)

Bodhi, you and Mommy had plans to make Sister Kelly a Hello Kitty cake, but unfortunately we ran out of time :( Daddy picked out this cake in it's place!