photostory friday - you're never too old to have a birthday cake with pink icing on it

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when i posted this pic on wednesday, one of my commenters mentioned the fact that i probably needed high speed film to capture the moment. of course she was right!

this was taken directly before the one above...

and this one straight after

so last friday i talked about how the last 19 years had disappeared in a flash. mostly good, although some days my forehead is flat from banging it against a brick wall...but of course all that is forgotten on the morning of the birthday when the entire family clamour on our super king bed for the present opening.

this is one of those traditions we created without really realising it. this time one of the girls pondered the day when we wouldn't all fit on the bed...

a large mink blanket was on her wish list. check!

she couldn't quite believe that we'd given her a new cellphone for her birthday.
out with the old (right), and in with the new!

then it was off to our favourite curry restaurant for dinner. what to have.....

because it's all SO YUMMY!!!

usually, they behave very well in public

usually...

i thought this was a nice spot for an intimate dinner for two...but if anyone was sitting next to us, that wasn't gonna happen!!!

and then there was the birthday cake, that i decorated from the kiddie birthday cake book on a whim. as i was squeezing the 19 candles onto the top of the cake, i pondered when one stops placing 'candles for years'. maybe 21? revisited at every birthday ending with a zero after that?

she managed to blow them all out with one breath

it was vanilla cake with 'made from scratch' frosting. super sweet!!!

i was trolling through some of the mom bomb 's earlier posts when i happened upon her 7th grade school photo, that she was brave enough to share. she was looking at her daughter's most recent school photo (wherein she resembled a jaded 45 year old lawyer) and was lamenting the fact that there are REALLY no good school photos.

i think most of us would agree with that, although i fail to see how my daughter is ever going to look back at THIS photo and feel the same way.

with $4000 teeth, good quality hair straighteners that your big sister is happy to lend you, and an extra 45 minutes to get ready in the morning - this is the result you get.

to quote her 18 year old sister "you're the hottest person in your class!" now that's sisterly love.