Birthday Ballerina

 Miss Elena had a birthday.  The thing she wanted most was a pink tutu.  Doesn't she look great?  Grammy & Grandpa got that for her. :)

 She chose a chocolate cake with multiple layers.  The cake-maker (aka Mom) got a cold, so she used flavored cool whip instead of icing between the layers.  The cool whip takes flavoring well (chocolate syrup for the brown, three drops of mint oil and 7 drops of red food coloring for the minty pink) but doesn't have any structural integrity!  Hence the long bamboo skewers holding the cake layers together!

This is one of the few shots where all three kids are visible.  We had a fun family party (even Aunt Marilyn came!).

Happy Birthday, little one!

Grandpa's Poncho

Check out Grandpa's poncho!  Some one hit it with a "sun gun" and plugged the neck hole!  Now he'll never get it on!

Many thanks to Grammy & Grandpa M for the material for our new cuddle blanket!

Ringing in the New Year

Three of us stayed up "late" working on our New Year's Eve puzzle.  We started it around noon and everyone helped some.  By 9:30 or so, the work was done.  1000 pieces, over 40 cats....imagine all those eyes staring at you from the box of pieces! :)           Happy New Year!