The Meissner-Elliott Birthday Bonanza

Today we celebrated Laura's, Karl's, Colin's, and Justin's birthdays at our house. We had some serious Vikings fans in attendance, so the guys watched the game while Mom, Angie, Connie, and I passed Baby Adam around while we talked about babies. Our conclusion: They're soooo cute!! Pizza was brought to the TV room, and we even had to plan when we sang "Happy Birthday" so it wouldn't interfere too much with the game. Laura was starting to think this stupid Vikings game was getting out of hand; all she wanted was to eat her cupcake already!

We finally managed to pull the Vikings crew into the dining room to sing "Happy Birthday." This is the adorable cupcake-cake that Angie brought (she requested half chocolate cupcakes and half white cupcakes- for the Meissners. I used my Lundgren card to get in on the chocolate ones. Oh, and when I asked my Dad what kind of cupcake he wanted he said, "chocolate," like, "duh, what kind of a question is that?")

This is the best we could do with the birthday kids, who had ants in their pants to get back to the game. One of these kids is doing her own thing, come on, can you tell which one? Can you guess which kid is doing her own thing, now before my song is done? And now my song is done. Colin, Laura, Justin, Karl


Colin and Karl ran off with their cupcakes to watch football. Laura and Justin stayed behind to savor theirs. For ten minutes they were best friends.

Next up: Laura turns 10! You would not believe what it's like to live with this girl in the days leading up to her birthday. December 6, when are you coming?!?