Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Our Little Gal's Golden Day


My sincere apologies! I must think about posting on the blog often enough that I feel like I've actually done so, when in reality it only happened in my head. I wonder how many other things are only getting attention in my thoughts and not in real life?

Flash back to January: Cora turned 7. SEVEN! Is each year going to be this crazy? I overheard a father's advice to his adult son, whose daughter had just turned 6. He said to his son, "Congratulations! One third of your time raising your daughter is finished!" We're one year past that. Seven is one third of 21...I was married at 21!  

This year was Cora's Golden Birthday. She turned 7 on January 7, so we played up the "golden" idea a little bit with her birthday party. Cora and I had fun trying to find golden colored foods: finger jello, pine apples, golden raisins, potato chips...etc. She chose, for the third year in a row, a rainbow layered cake. To change it up this year I made 6 layers, each a different color. It seriously is the most fun cake I've ever eaten! 

We enjoyed celebrating Cora's birthday with a few friends of hers (one is also a cousin). They colored her a birthday poster, played some old-fashioned party games (musical chairs, hot and cold, pop the balloon, etc), ate lunch and went sledding in our back yard. It was super fun...and I'm really glad we limited the invitation list to only 5 friends! They had a lot of energy! Here are some pictures of the fun we had.
Red Light, Green Light


Coloring her birthday banner


Musical Chairs

The gang!

Lunch time

Happy birthday, sweet Cora!

The (huge) rainbow layered birthday cake. 

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