Goose's Twelfth Birthday

My baby turned twelve a few weeks ago and it broke my heart.  She's supposed to be a little girl on my hip for the rest of my life.  :(

For her birthday cake she wanted another computer game cake.  This year it was Animal Jam and she asked for this very specific top hat.  I tried my hardest and she said she liked it so I guess that's all that matters, but this was probably the hardest homemade cake I've ever made.

 We have a whole slew of annual celebrations that we do for birthdays in our house.  They get to pick a cake and homemade meal, a restaurant to eat at (no holds barred in this area), and we try to do a special party or event.  Goose wanted me to cook chicken quesadilla's, to eat the big man steak at Patti's Settlement and then take her best friend to Holiday World.  We bought season passes for all of us at Christmas and they were best present idea ever.  We've already gone four times this summer and we still have a month left on our passes.

For her birthday morning I covered her door in crepe paper but she's a moody preteen girl and refused to come through it.  So she carefully peeled off some tape and stepped through it for a few days until I finally took it down.  *sigh*

 For her quesadilla's I throw a buttered tortilla into a skillet, cover it entirely with cheese (Fiesta is my fave!), put cooked chicken, crumbled bacon, and pico de gallo over half and once the cheese gets a little melty you can flip the other side over the one with all the toppings.  A couple minutes to brown and it's done.  It's Goose's current favorite Mom Meal.

We took them to Patti's for the first time last Christmas and even though it was bitterly cold, we had a fun time walking around and looking at all the lights.  This time it was a lot nicer weather, but we I think we all kind of preferred the winter experience.

Goose got her steak and was a happy girl.

We took her to Holiday World and it poured on us most of the day but it cleared the parks out and her and her BFF spent the entire day riding roller coasters over and over.

I love you, little Goose!  You are silly and beautiful and so smart.  You were my number one baby.