we celebrated grace’s birthday last weekend!  oh my gosh, she turned 11!!  my how time flies!

we started off the day with pedis!  we all went to nail bar on southport and got our tootisies all purtied up!  blue for grace and a pinky orange for moi!  after our appointment, grace got to choose where we were going to go to eat.  we went to frances, a plain burger for grace, a salad for me, and i can’t remember hc’s order…ha!

[getting her nails done!  such a pro, chillin’ and reading her gossip mag]

[birthday lunch]

[our fun pedi’s]

[lunch time fun]

after lunch, we stopped by cycle smithy to check out bikes.  hc lured grace to the shop by saying he needed some supplies but we were really shopping for her!  it was her surprise birthday gift!  she was super excited when we told her!  after perusing the bike shop, we decided to go the village cycle.  there we found her a trek bike!  she really liked it, which worried us at first…ya know how kids can be…they never can decide!

we headed back home to drop me off {i had to go to my p’s house to prep for the party], and they took their bikes to the lake to go riding!  it was great!  they met up with us back at the cheesecake factory for grace’s birthday dinner with my family.

[grace’s new bike]

[kiddie cocktails]

[birthday time!]

[gifts from r + b]

[the confetti cake being sliced]

once we were done, we then headed back to my parent’s house for cake, ice cream, and presents.  the kids had a great time playing together, while the adults hung out.

all in all, it was a wonderful time!  we had a blast celebrating grace’s birthday and i’m sure she did as well!

xoxo