Birthday Weekend

We had a wonderful birthday weekend for Eleanor! Grandma & Grandpa Anderson and Grandma Mari Lee were able to spend the weekend with us. Also, as I previously mentioned, we had a birthday open house on Saturday for friends & family to have some cake and ice cream! The theme was Winnie the Pooh but the bakery where I got the cake (Daube's) isn't a copyrighted bakery, so they can't actually do a Disney character. But, Eleanor didn't seem to notice!

Taking a closer look at the cake...

Here is how I set up the table. Nothing too fancy...

Her "Pooh inspired" cake!

Many of our friends were able to come to the open house and so Eleanor had lots of friends to play with! This is Theodore who loved the Little People train.

Theodore's little sister, Lucy. She looked adorable in a little corduroy skirt with cable knit tights!

Violet & Gloria in their High School Musical t-shirts! They wore those more for me than for Eleanor...

Baby "Cookie" (as Eleanor likes to call him!). Lukas Nelson (Lukey) is his formal name.

Uncle Matt and our good friend Bob Giere.

Erikka Giere also stopped by.

The kids sat at their own little table to eat their cake.

Eleanor enjoyed her cake a lot more this year than she did last year!

An art desk from Uncle Mark.

Matt & Melissa got her this little Pooh laptop computer!

After church on Sunday we opened some more presents from family. Grandma Anderson got Eleanor her own little charm bracelet.

And Uncle Jordan & Aunt Natalie got her a personalized foot stool. She likes to get up to the sink and brush her teeth or wash her hands (or both!).

Here she is standing on her foot stool and talking on yet another cell phone!

Eleanor wasn't being very cooperative after church for pictures. So, this was the best we could do for the grandparents. We didn't even get one of Mari Lee! Sorry about that...we did get a family shot but it's on my Dad's camera.

Our happy, healthy birthday girl!