A Party!

I know you have all been waiting on the edge of your seat for me to finally post pictures of Carly's party :) Actually, if you read my blog, then you probably read Jennifer's, so you already know the gritty details.

We met up at The Olive Garden (YUM!) for a fun evening of overeating (again) and celebrating Caroline's big day. Eli came along. He enjoyed his bread stick. It was cute-he kept looking around me trying to get a look at Carly. He loves his cousin!

Mommy forgot Eli's sippy cup, so we ordered Eli a drink from a restaurant for the first time. He actually did really good with it! He held right onto it and drank from the straw with no problem. The only problem came when he threw the cup on the floor. Fortunately, that lid stayed on tight!

Carly's cake. I make no claims to decorating cakes well. That's Krista's specialty :) I DO like to bake 'em, though!

The birthday girl gets to put her own candles on-FUN!

Grinnin' while we're singin'

A kiss from mommy

Blow 'em out!

And then enjoy your cake :)

I thought this cake looked SO COOL on the inside!

It was pretty fun to make. And yes, Ben had red dye free cupcakes to enjoy :) I didn't snap any pictures of those...I tried to do the 'layer thing' with those too...(yellow, green & blue) but they looked...well...not so good...but they tasted good!

Carly got sung to by the staff as well. Ben was laughing pretty hard the whole time. Carly was thrilled, I'm sure.

Eli enjoyed his Chicken Parmesan. He would scream if we stopped feeding him. Apparently he was hungry.

We had a super fun night celebrating with Caroline. She's getting to be quite the little lady! Can you believe she's already 8?!