For Lisa

My daughter-in-law Lisa's birthday is January 2nd. She turned the big "two nine" this year.

And I really do mean twenty nine,

she's not thirty two and just refusing to move into her thirties, by staying at twenty nine.

Anyway, I will make a long story short here. (At least I will try, you know me.)

Well, due to circumstances, the idea of going out to eat to celebrate, and then to go back to Donald and Lisa's to celebrate even more, with Birthday cake and ice cream, didn't work out that way.

So it was decided that since every Sunday they come to my house and we have a family dinner, that we would do Birthday cake at that time.

Everything worked out fine with the exception of one teency weency little hitch.

No Birthday cake.

I thought that since we had planned to go to Donald and Lisa's, for cake, after eating at Famous Dave's (BTW, not a fan of good old Dave's.) That they must have gotten a cake.

That made sense to me.

They came for Sunday Dinner without a cake. I didn't have a cake ready. And I am still sure that I heard Donald say that they would bring the cake with them.

Oh well all of this is neither here nor there, I just wanted to point out that there wasn't a cake that Sunday.

Lisa told us that it was okay, that she didn't really mind not having a cake.

Donald and I both insisted that some kind of dessert (something to put candles on, in other words) needed to be procured immediately.

So my quick thinking son grabbed a brownie mix out of my pantry, and made Birthday brownies for his dear wife.

This was actually a good thing.

Lisa loves brownies.

And even better,

we had hot fudge sauce and plenty of ice cream.

There are few desserts that Lisa likes better than Hot Fudge Brownie Sundaes.

The day was SAVED! YAY!

Lisa is such a loving mom that she even told the girls, (that would be Alexandra and Lorelai.) that they could help blow out the candles.

Which was really nice.

Lorelai, by the way, will help you blow out your candles with or without permission, so it was very considerate of Lisa to give her the A OK.

You know so Lorelai can help blow without guilt.

The candles were lit,

we were ready to sing,

Lorelai had staked out the best position to really have a go at those candles,

and then we realized we didn't have the camera.

I ran to my room and got mine.

We sang, they blew, and we ate.

Mmm, ya gotta love those Hot Fudge Brownie Sundaes.

Now there was just one problem.

The pictures I had taken were on my camera.

In hindsight I'm not sure why I didn't just have them take my camera with them to their house. Lisa had wanted to use the pictures on her blog, to do a post about her Birthday.

That didn't happen.

What did happen however, is that I was looking through the pictures I had taken the other day, and there were Lisa's BDay pics.

And now I have written an entire post to explain why I have Lisa's Birthday Pictures on my blog.

So now you know. And here they are.

Lisa and the girls while we all sang Happy Birthday. Notice Lorelai, in prime position, to blow out those candles. Obviously she takes candle blowing more seriously than Alexandra.

The candles are all blown out Hooray! Notice the VERY satisfied look on Lori's face?

The girls always get the job of taking out the candles. They weren't even disappointed that there was no frosting to lick.