Ellie's Birthday

Long over a month ago, we celebrated Ellie's GOLDEN birthday! Most of her family was gone, it was during the week so Troy wasn't around, and so we went over to her house and made homemade pizza for dinner. Because that's what Ellie wanted to do. :)

It was just Shelly, Me, Larissa, Ellie......and Seth & Adam of course. Kendra and Ellie have the same birthday, but Kendra was on vacation and wasn't able to celebrate with us. :/

I made Ellie a deep dark chocolate cake with mocha frosting. Talk about rich, but she loved it! We didn't have candles, so we used little tea lites instead.... but hey, it worked!

Adam & Seth... these two are goofs. They really should just become brothers they're together so much.

We just hung out and did our usual. Nowadays our new "usual" involves Ellie going off and talking to Troy while we do our own thing. :) I gave her Dutch Blitz for her birthday, because that is a game we HAVE to have when we go to visit her in her new home.

Speaking of Ellie... yes, the wedding is in 7 days, but the busy weekend starts in 5. I can't believe it's actually here. I make it sound like it's my own wedding. It's hard because I wish I could just live with her for the next week before she moves, but family IS more important, and I'm sure it's even harder on them...so I've gotta let them have time with her. *sigh* But it's killing me! :)

I said something tonight to Ellie about, "well this is your last weekend here with us in IL...." Troy then informed me that she WILL still be living in IL. Ha, I never think of it like that. I feel like she's pretty much just going to be moving to the moon.

But we've already got some weekends planned of when we're going up there. Yay.

So I'm super excited for the weekend... but it will definitely be bittersweet. I'm thrilled I get to go to Mexico two days later, so I have another thing to look forward to. Then it's reality and time to get back to school. :/

Sorry for my dramaticness, I'm not usually this bad... :) And I'm half way being sarcastic for some of you who don't really know my humor. :)

....Oh, and I will be posting about Montana, but I'm still trying to catch up from last month. :)