My little Birthday Girl

 Someone had a birthday.  And she milked it for all she could.    Except she was SO wishy-washy!  She couldn't decide what she wanted to have for dinner and she couldn't decide what kind of cake she wanted.  Thank goodness she was confident she wanted cinnamon rolls for breakfast, and she wanted me to come and have lunch with her at school!

All ready for her first day of school as a 7 year old!

At the cafeteria.  Delaney's lunch overlaps with Rylee's so I got to hang out with both of them and their classes for lunch. 

Enjoying the gift opening. 

She was thrilled to get a stuffed peacock.  I don't know why, but she wanted one! 

Marian made the best card ever, so I had to post it.  This is the front. 

And the back. 

And the very clever inside. 

Marian also made her a unicorn, since apparently Rylee said she wanted one. 

Okay, this is a bit backwards....

Here we are at dinner.  Rylee finally decided she wanted to go to JD's restaurant.  I thought that was odd and asked several times.  She assured me that she did want to go there.  And then we got there and she realized she meant to say she wanted to go to Crossroads.  It ruined everything. 

Thank goodness she had an awesome Dragon cake! 

It was delicious.

One Full Tummy, AKA Yakiniku

 I finally made it out to eat Yakiniku.  Dan has been once or twice before and the price had kept me content to live without it.  But Dan had a work party Thursday night and I went because I liked the Marine who was leaving.  I found the dinner to be underwhelming.  If it hadn't been $30, per person, I may have been more enthused, but alas, for $60, I was kind of hoping for ....I don't know what, but definitely more.  I didn't even get any leftovers.

So you sit at a table with these every other seat.  They bring large (and small) platters of raw meat and you cook what you want, how you want. There were a few bowls with raw veggies, but I have no idea how you'd cook it tastily on a grill.  Most of what I had was delicious, but I played it safe and only ate what I recognized.

You could eat it with rice, and they had lettuce leaves you could wrap it in.  But it definitely was a meat-heavy meal.  Which, I suppose is why it is so popular with the Marines. 

That is a little bowl of ice cream, amidst the debris of our food orgy. The ice cream was delicious.  Most of what I ate was good, but I'm not a big meat-eater, so it really was wasted on me.  And, I didn't get any leftovers!

Silly at Sushi

My Man-Cub

 My boy had a birthday!  He wanted to go out to the Sushi-Go-Round for dinner to celebrate, so off we went to do that.

You can't see very well, but the sign there says, "Happy Birthday" on the top.  

Josh tried lots of stuff and liked it. 

They couldn't fit us all at one table, so we had two booths. 

Rylee played it safe and only ate fruit and Udon noodles. 

Marian also prefer the Udon. 

 Back at home we did loot and cake.  The cake was so yummy I forgot to take pictures of that.

Rylee wanted in on the action. 

Joshua proclaimed himself delighted with his presents.

Can you see her?

Guess which kid is in the top of the tree?!