Our Caitlyn is NINE!

How does a beautiful nine year old girl want to spend her birthday? With friends, at the local amusement park, a slumber party, a day at the water slide park? Nope. She’d rather be with her mom and dad. We started off the day making Caitlyn’s cake. I offered to buy her one (ice cream cakes were mentioned), but she wanted to make her own. It was an orange flavored cake with cream cheese frosting.

We then left the house for a lunch date at BJ’s. We started with Caesar salads and the most divine pizza (Caitlyn: sausage and black olive and Mom: pepperoni and tomato).

For dessert we were brought out their famous “pizookie.” (It’s a cookie baked in a deep dish pizza pan, served right from the oven with ice cream on top). Can you say yummy? To Caitlyn the best part was the lit candle on top. I thought it was the perfect addition to the orange cream soda Caitlyn was already drinking. What fun.

After filling our tummies we had just enough time to do a little shopping and then it was off to meet Mark at the movies. We saw “UP” which made me cry over and over. Mark said “Pixar found a way to wrap an amazing story around the line, 'it’s just a house'.” Caitlyn liked the movie, but liked getting to sit between Mom and Dad even more. She had all of our attention. After the movie Mark walked the mall a little with us and then was back off to work. Now it was time for some serious shopping. Caitlyn and I hit the stores and especially all the sales. We kept adding shopping bags which Caitlyn carried around proudly. We ended our day out with a trip to Costco, where we picked up dinner.

We sat around the table as a family talking about the day and all the fun we had. After the dishes were done it was time for cake and ice

cream. We wrapped up our amazing day with present opening. I don’t think there could be a more perfect day.

We love you KIT KAT!