Olivias Birthday 2009 Diva Party


Olivia….a Diva? Not really, but she does like to dress the part.  So I figured her sixth birthday was a big deal and wanted to give her a really cool party.  I’ve seen this place called Just Fabulous (next to where I get my haircut) since Liv was little and always wanted to have a party for her there.

Olivias 6th Diva Birthday Party

You cant see it, but she’s standing next to a cut out of Zac Effron (gag)

Things were a little slow at first until all the girls started trying on all the costumes, hats and accessories.  They all took turns getting manicures, hair and makeup.  Then they had a little dance party, pizza, pictures on the catwalk and frozen yogurt.  I thought Olivia might be freaked out by all the attention, but she was diggin it.  I was doing my best paparazzi impression.  Everything was great until they gave me the bill….then I wept in my pink frozen yogurt.  (“Daddys just happy Olivia…thats all….”)

The girls were a little slow to dig into the costumes, but once they did it was like a wedding dress sale at Macy’s.

Olivia was in her glory cause it was wall to wall sequins, beads, jewles and glitter.


Children of the Corn

Kris and I decided to take a trip to PA to see some friends and get lost in a giant field of corn.  This corn maze is right in the middle of meat and potato lovin’ Pennsylvania Dutch country and is called “The Cherry Crest Adventure Farm”.

Cherry Crest Children of the CornI was waiting for Maliki to greet us at the ticket booth, but it was neither him, nor a person wielding a sickle so I was relieved.

It took us an hour and a half to “almost” find our way out of the maze and we felt like little mice in a laboratory with our reward being some Dutch Country Fudge waiting for us in the courtyard.

Dutch Fudge

(Exhibit A: Yummy Dutch Fudge)

(Exhibit B: Kris Eating Yummy Dutch Fudge)

(Exhibit C: Dean licking the bag where the Yummy Dutch Fudge had been)

lost in Maze

Apparently, this is a map of all the people who who have been swallowed up by the corn maze.  My guess is they have been made into Shoofly Pie.

What we didn’t anticipate was the feverish spell the corn maze had put on Mellisa and Jay. They were clearly the mice with a mission, hell bent on finding all the maze puzzle pieces and claiming the 2009 Maize Masters title (fictional title that they so rightly deserve)

“Can someone just point me in the general vicinity of fudge?”

“can we get some blue puzzle pieces so it looks like we tried?”

That morning Jay and I went for a six mile run so I got to see the Vibram 5 fingers “Barefoot running shoes” in action.

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