June 14, 2008

• Stephanie’s 30th Birthday Party

  Today I will write about Stephanie’s (my oldest daughter) 30th birthday party, which was last Thursday.  We had fun planning it and I think Jesse gave the biggest surprise of all to her.  It was a surprise to me, as well!!
  
  He shelled out a little under $500 to have her van repaired. (remember – she drove through that high water on the road a month ago?)   She was shocked when he walked in and handed her the keys to her car and said, “Happy Birthday!”  He had the car parked in full view of our front door.

  For being 30 years old, I think she still looks great.  Of course, I have to think that way, since I’m the mother of a 30yo and have to feel not-quite-so-old myself!!!
  
  She resembles me so much at that same age that is it rather spooky.  I DON’T look like that anymore!!!! 

  Of course, I had to give Rissy (the new photographer in the family) a turn with the camera and so here’s the Mom of a 30yo daughter!!!  (I told you I don’t look like that anymore!!!!)
  

  Okay . . . NOW back to Stephanie and HER day!

  There were lots of gifts and cards from lots of family members
  

  And lots of helpers to open things, along with lots of “thank yous” and hugs.
        

  It was so hard to not touch those gifts and “some” of us had to really restrain ourselves!!!
         

  Much to her dismay, Stephanie followed her mother’s orders and posed with her new sunglasses – nose price tag and all!  I LOVE this picture!!!  You can tell she’s really into posing for it!!!!  I think she was saying something like, “Hurry up, PLEEEEEZE, Mom!”
  
  
  

  So, to please her (after all, it WAS *her* b-day!!!), I took some “better shots” of her!!!!!
  
  Again, she looks so much like I did when I was 30.  It’s just so weird to see such similarity. 

  Unfortunately, same of the focus was taken from Stephanie again.  It seems our *whole* family has become interested in being the subject of photography!  That includes Stormy.  She kept inching her way close and closer to me, the one with the camera.

  She continued to “slug” her way closer and closer to me.  This time, I know for sure my camera wasn’t upside down, SHE was upside down looking straight up into the lens.
  

  Then there was “THE CAKE” . . . all 30 candles with one-to-grow-on in a pink flower candleholder in the center holding a plain green candle.  Do they ever get too old for one-to-grow-on candles???  The cake had a dusting over the top of it with a crystal clear sugar that looks like ice shavings and makes the top sparkle.  The girls thought it was “fairy dust”  – so, fairy dust it remains.  This is my “Triple Fudge Cake.”  Of course, there are no calories in it!!!
  

  I’m not sure if the reality of turning the big “3-0″ hit her when she contemplated ALL the candles on the cake!!!
  

  Here is a little known fact.  It took 4 large kitchen matches to get all of the 31 candles lit and I burned the matches to the very end to get the most out of each one.  One lit match, when I blew it out,  broke in half and I couldn’t get the match head up quick enough before it burned a hole in two places in my tablecloth.  I’m afraid to look at the wood tabletop underneath the tablecloth – afraid I may have burned the wood, too.

  It took a lot of air to blow out those candles – but she did it in one breath!  Can you see the smoke rising amidst all of our TV cords?  If you look at the woodwork, you can see all the smoke her “big blow” caused!  We had a good laugh and told her this was the last year she got a candle for each year of her age!!!  We are afraid the smoke alarm will go off, next time and the fire department will show up to help eat the cake!!!
  

  Then, of course, IN OUR HOUSE, there is always that one trick candle (the one in the pink flower holder that was a plain green candle) that always refuses to go out!!!
  

  I think she had a fantastic birthday.  Everyone enjoyed her getting her car back – especially me, since I’ve been having to take her AND pick her up from work each day!  She said she really hadn’t expected much this year since everyone has been helping her so much in so many ways.

  So there you have it!  SHE’S officially 30 and I’m offically  the mother of a 30yo child! 

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