Friday, May 1, 2009

Happy (early) 7th Birthday Madison

With Grammie and Grampy in town for the weekend from Florida (and a special birthday surprise arriving this week) we decided to celebrate Madison's 7th birthday a week early with a family BBQ and ice cream cake.

Dinner included hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad and for the birthday girl- mac cheese mixed with corn and peas.

After dinner it was time for gifts.
We all gathered in the living room (Grammie, Grampie, Nana, Pa, Aunt Niki, Uncle Kevin, Mommy, Daddy, and Lillian).

Madison's gifts included:

Spring Jammies, clothes, books

A shell jewelry box complete with Great Grandma's costume jewelry for dress-up.

An English sun suit- to match Lillian

And finally her much wished for Nintendo DS!


A homemade ice cream cake made and decorated by the birthday girl herself completed the birthday festivities.

Madison's wish: to spend her birthday with her best friend Roni from England (little does she know that Roni and her mum Lisa will be arriving on Thursday to spend a weeks holiday with us- Shhhhh its a secret!)


Lillian patiently waited for her turn to open presents- Grammie and Grampie saved their gifts from her birthday for their visit.

Her second favorite gift (her first is still the tube of toothpaste) was a yellow necklace from Grammie.

She enjoyed taking it ON and OFF (over and over again)

She was also quite proud of her new fairy house and pleased to be able to pick it up and carry it on her own.

What a mess!

It was a great family birthday celebration!