Happy Birthday Eliana!

Back in July, our Eliana turned 12!  It seems like only a short time ago she was a toddler running around the house.

Because of COVID, we had to modify plans a little bit.    Instead of a 'real' party, she invited only two friends and they had a party on our porch.  Really it was just watching a movie together.   Elvin set up the TV outside and they watched "Greatest Showman" together.  

The snacks Eliana chose was orange Crush, grapes, and chips!

And then came time to blow out the candles.

These are chocolate cupcakes topped with raspberry flavored whipped cream.  Eliana made them herself from scratch and they were really moist.  There's twelve candles on them!

Eliana even hollowed each of them out a little bit and put a dollop of homemade strawberry jam inside as a little surprise.

Eliana also celebrated by opening her presents with her siblings.  She got a stand that you can set a cookbook on while baking in the kitchen.

She also got a thing that makes whipped cream using NO2 canisters.

She got an essential oils diffuser that she wanted.

And Eliana wanted chewing gum.  Emily found this deal online where you can buy a combo pack of Trident gum that has every single flavor they make.  They even had dragonfruit flavored gum!

She got a card from Yeh-yeh and Nai-nai.

And the last thing that she wanted was to get her ears pierced!  Emily was finally convinced that Eliana was responsible enough to keep her newly pierced ears clean, so they went to a jewelry store with a friend to get them pierced.  Here is our young lady with ears pierced!  

Happy Birthday, Eliana!!!