birthday #14 celebration

big sister likes to keep it simple with her birthday parties.  although we offered her lots of ideas, ranging from going to a waterpark, to spending the night at a hotel, to going bowling, skating or to the movies – she chose a movie, dinner out, then a sleepover.  she invited 3 friends, which was just the perfect size.  they arrived around 3pm saturday, and daddy took then to the mall to see the darkest minds, and i heard they all pretty much bawled thru several parts of the movie.

after the movie, the girls came back to the house to hang for a bit, then we headed to dinner at fuzzy’s tacos.  we let the girls sit at their own table, because that is what cool parents do….

  once back at the house, we opened gifts and then had cake & ice cream.

earlier in the day, little sister helped me attempt a mirror-glaze cake.  it turned out better in the end than expected while we were doing it.  the gelatin in the glaze made for an odd texture on the frosting, so we just peeled it off like we would remove fondant before eating.  like fondant, i guess a mirror-glaze is more for looks than for awesome flavor.

after about an hour of playing hogwarts battle, the girls retreated upstairs to the game room to watch tv and semi-wind down for bed.  or not.  daddy & i went to bed, and slept as well as we could knowing there were 4 teenagers upstairs hanging out.

in the morning, we surprised big sister with birthday donuts.  i think she was pretty pleased with them, but her reaction may have been muted by her lack of sleep.  the friends left between 10-11am, so we had the rest of the day to clean up and rest/recover from all the fun.