God plans for us better than we can plan for ourselves. Always, without exception! What are the chances that we would know and love DeeDee? We are so blessed to have her and her family in our lives. My first birthday surprise was to meet her at school for lunch. i never promise this to children, because chances are I could take a phone call and not make it on time. It's better to surprise them. I forgot what it was like to stand in line for lunch for 30 minutes, have 10 minutes to eat, in a room with a volume level of 500 decibals. It was taco day, which really slows down the line. The students have to choose hard shell or soft. Do they want taco meat? Refried beans? Mexican rice? Corn? then they need to select salsa, sour cream, and little cups of cheese as they move along. That's ok. I got to meet Indrya's good school friends! I learned also, that her class has 3 Cadens and a Jaden. There's only one Indrya!
I wanted to do something special for her 7th birthday, so Katie and I made her cake!
It is supposed to resemble a flower box. The flowers are dumdum suckers, inserted into straws, covered with fruit roll ups! I bought a particular box of fruit roll ups, because it contained red and orange colored fruit roll up. While the cake was baking, Katie helped me with the suckers. We laughed when we realized the fruit roll ups I bought had riddles printed on them. Noooo! Oh well, even though the words were printed in blue, the flowers looked ok! Katie helped me with the layers of cake, which had lemon pie filling in between the layers, and putting the sugar wafer cookies around. End results were something unique, but also tasty!
Caleigh is a very thoughtful, artistic sister, and made Indyra these gifts of a lovely birthday crown and paper dollar! Photo is from my phone, so the deyails aren't good.
Sweet sisters! light was better in the afternoon when we brought the cake over.
Here's Corbin, lighting the candles!
Our birthday girl, making her wish...
And some gift opening...
Monster high doll...
Special guest Joanna!
What is better than siblings watching you open gifts?
Special cards from grandparents....
Indyra Rubi is a precious girl, and we loved her celebration. Renia and Zach made Tortas, which are delicious shredded chicken sandwhiches with queso fresco, tomato, lettuce, avacado, and the rolls are football shaped. Can't remember what they are called, but all was delicious. It's good to be celebrated!
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