Sandi's Birthday Day

Well, I think I have finally recovered from celebrating Sandi's birthday yesterday. As is our tradition, we let Sandi pick what she wanted to do for her birthday. Sandi decided that she wanted to have a "Girls Day" and spend it with Mom (April), me (Cathy), Becca, Nyssa, Amy (who unfortunately couldn't make it) and all of us get facials and have our makeup done. To give you an idea on how seriously we take the birthday person's wishes, Nyssa agreed to do this for her Aunt. (Nyssa HATES makeup!) So this was a MAJOR act of love on my daughter's part. Anyways, I of course couldn't leave well enough alone. So I planned several surprises for my OLDer sister. At Orgins (where we had the facials) Nyssa presented Sandi with her 1st gift...a heart chain bracelet with an "I Love You" charm. After everyone was made to look beautiful, we went out to lunch. I gave Sandi her next gift during lunch...a charm that said "Big Sister". Then we windowed shopped a bit and on to the next surprise. I had arranged for us girls to get our pictures taken (why waste a perfect makeup day?). At the photo studio, mom gave Sandi her next present (a charm that said "Daughter"). We had lots of fun getting our pictures taken. The photographer decided that both Becca and Nyssa were my daughters so she kept calling me "Mama", Becca was "Miss Drama", Nyssa was "Miss Grumpy" and mom was "Gramma". She never really came up with a nickname for Sandi. I did like the photographer....especially after she reminded Sandi that she couldn't choke me. When we left Sandi saw a blood mobile and decided that what she really wanted was for Mom, Sandi and I to donate blood together. So a new tradition has been born. Sandi and I have both donated blood before, but mom never has. We had a lot of fun alternating between trying to scare her and reassure her. I don't the blood team will ever recover from us. Then we finally headed home (to my place) where I had a Carvel icecream cake waiting for her. At the house Becca gave Sandi her final charm that said "Mom".
Orlando and PJ had a good time while we were out celebrating. One of our friends had some trees for our yard, so Orlando had PJ drive over to his house to pick them up. Orlando says that PJ is a pretty good driver, just needs some more practice. So all in all I think yesterday was a birthday that none of us will forget. I hope Sandi enjoyed it as much as Nyssa and I did.