One of the first things we always do when we get home from a roadtrip is have a Stellarina Birthday Party. And since they are girls and like pretty things to wear, we get to take them clothes shopping for their birthday present. My favorite store to find dancing dresses and sun dresses is Target, so we headed off on a ferry trip to the mainland.
First Dan took all his “girls“ out to lunch at Subway, where we could each order our sandwich to our liking.
At the checkout Dan took a picture of our granddaughters eager to get home and show Grandpa what they had picked out.
They insisted that we sit at the far end of the living room so they had a full length runway as they modeled their new outfits.
The girls made cupcakes for their birthday cake. Marina couldn’t keep her fingers out of the batter.
For Christmas we had given each of the girls a gift card to the local craft store. Marina used her gift card to buy Fimo clay. She showed us the miniature food (including sushi), beads, and flowers she had made by shaping, painting, and baking the Fimo.
Very imaginative and detailed work:
I spent all last winter making blankets for the girl’s beds. They had picked out the yarn they liked best...both chose the same yarn, so I added a purple border to Marina’s blanket.
The first thing the girls wanted to do when they visited us and had an afternoon for projects was to start making jewelry again. Stella said she had broken some of her bracelets and necklaces and lost lost of the earrings she had made. Spring with Marina and Stella is underway!
They said that will keep their blankets “forever”. Later, their Dad said that they sleep with them every night.
The Deception Pass Marathon, one of Candice’s races as a race director, was scheduled for the same day as the Tulip Pedal bike ride that Dan and I did, so on the way home, wee stopped off for a surprise visit. Marina and Stella were playing on the beach and it was wonderful to watch them play.
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