Julia and Irene

Happy Birthday to our Julia who turned 9!! And goodbye to Irene who blew in and out of town but left quite the mess behind. Even Julia's little friends were neater than her!

It was supposed to be a pool party/sleepover but Irene messed that up too! We moved the party into the porch because of the rain but it worked just fine.



Julia asked me to make this pink confetti cake.

Julia invited 5 school friends and 5 dance friends. Ironically, all her dance friends couldn't sleep over because of Irene but all her school friends were able to stay. : )

My personal photographer (Nicholas) did a great job capturing all the fun...





























They played in her room and made the best of it inside. Then we put in a movie and the kids had lots of candy and popcorn. They were in bed by 11:00, pancakes for breakfast in the morning and then the girls were on their way home before the storm got too bad. It was still a good party and Julia was very happy.

By early afternoon, this is what Irene did to one of our trees...

It knocked down some wires but no one in our neighborhood lost power thankfully...

And I spent over an hour cleaning the pool and it's still not clean...





So we spent the rest of Julia's birthday weathering the storm inside and Danny made a delicious meal of homemade eggplant lasagna, homemade pasta & ravioli, and homemade sauce.....yum!!!



One of Julia's favorite presents was her Tangled doll. I love that she still loves dolls. I was thrilled to go into the Disney Store to buy it for her!!