I wanted to finish up telling about my trip to Alaska… this week has been busy already. Tommorow night we have FOUR places that we need to be, all at one time. Both girls have ball, Steven and I need to be at an info meeting for a friends helping friends project for his Uncle Bill who is dying of cancer, and Our church is holding revival sercvices all this week. We went tonight since ball games and practices were cancelled because of the rain.. it was good.. I love watching all the old timey church of God ladies roll out those hair-do’s 

Sooo picking up where I left off.

Sunday- My sister is a minister at the church where we grew up, so we decided to attend there. My Uncle also attends there when he is out of town, not to mention a lot of the people I grew up attending church with. Elizabeth and I got up and had coffee and went to preaching.. (we skipped sunday school.. bad bad I know) The church has REALLY changed since we went there.. it looked HUGE when I was a kid.. but really the sanctuary isnt as enormous as I remember… in fact the church we attend here in Dillon is quite a bit bigger. After services we met my Aunt Mona, Uncle Allen and thier daughter Mickey (her name is Michelle too.. she is a step-cousin.. but we dont pay much mind to steps in our family) at one of our favorite resturants Guido’s! Eating there brought back SO many memories. We used to order food from there nearly every friday night. They have a MONSTER greek salad with the BEST garlic bread EVER. They also make a KILLER super sub. YUMMO. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.. I wonder if I could re-create it? hmmmmmm has me thinking.  Anyway. After lunch we waddled back to my Aunt Carrie’s house to kind of wait and see what people were going to do that evening, but everyone was pretty much wiped and we ended up heading back to Elizabeth’s parent’s house… we stayed up WAY to late chatting, giggling and generally making too much noise.. kind of like when we were kids.

Monday- At the memorial service my Auntie Lou’s husband Ron made it very clear that he wanted everyone to come to thier house and spend time together. So today we all went out (to a tiny tiny town about 30 mintues out of town) to thier house in the country. At first it was kind of hard to be there.. to see My Aunt’s house the way it was.. just as she’d left it before she went on her business trip. Her handwriting on the grocery list.. her coke in the fridge.. you could feel her presence all over the house.. frankly I got a little choked up. But after a while it was ok. Someone put the urn on the table and once all the aunts and uncles were there, cutting up and laughing and telling stories it was ok again. My Auntie Lou had a HUGE laugh, and it was missing and that was sad, but it was so nice to be together. My uncle grilled out caribou burgers (mmm soo so good to taste Alaskan game again)  and we all made a huge joke of toasting my aunt with PEPSI. I know she was laughing so hard. I never have felt the presence of someone who has passed as strongly as I felt Auntie Lou that day.

These are my Aunts and Uncles.. from LtR My Mom,  Allen, Susanna,Carrie,Cindy,and Tony.

I look so incredibly tired in this shot.. I likely was. Taken at Uncle Ron’s house before I got wet throwing snow.

This is a great shot of my Uncle’s LtR is Ron, Tony, Great Uncle (my Papa’s brother) Jim and Allen. I love how they look like they are really enjoying themselves.. so sweet.

At about 7 Elizabeth and I headed back to town and left just the siblings to enjoy eachother and talk and all that. I just felt like they could use some time to bond and heal together. Elizabeth and I met her sister Grace who is expecting a baby this summer and our friend Erin at Red Robin.. I LOVE thier fries.. Liz and I split a burger and I had the BEST milkshake.. mmm I wish we had one of those here!

Tuesday- When I asked the Thing’s what they’d like to have me bring them back from Alaska Thing Two without hesitation said she’d like to have a new kusbuk. A kusbuk is the summer parka of the native Alaskan people. The first trip we took up there I bought her one and she wore it until she absolutely couldnt get it on her body anymore. We had looked around town and hadnt come up with much when it came to one.. to early in the season since there was still snow coming down! Most people dont need a lite wearing garment like a kusbuk until mid summer. So, since Elizabeth and her mother sew (really well) we went in search of a pattern and material. It took most of the morning, but we got the stuff together and took it all home to Elizabeth’s mom Carol and she started in on the job while we went and enjoyed THAI food.. ohhh my gosh. I CRAVE thai food SO much. all the time. I wish wish wish we had a good place to get Thai near here. Id eat there all the time. (I ate thai 3 times in one week while we where there!) Elizabeth introduced me to a new place that is a tiny hole in the wall in a stip mall.. but was SO busy. You know a place like that is good when its PACKED at lunch by a real mix of personalities, everyone from business men to soccer moms.

Elizabeth enjoying the HOT curry.

We ordered Thai fresh rolls, Spring Rolls, Pad Thai, Red Curry with pineapple and chicken, and steamed jasmine rice. They also had the BEST thai iced teas. ( likely highly sweetened instant lipton with half and half, but its the PERFECT thing to chill out the spice from a good curry!)

When we returned Ms. Carol had gotten a LOT done on the kusbuk and between them they were able to finish it before Elizabeth had to leave to go home on wednesday. Thing Two looks SO cute in it.. and she will get TONS of wear out of it since we made it a size big. First she’ll wear it like a dress and then later like a lite jacket with jeans. Carol even made a little purse for her out of leftover fabric.. DARLING! I tell you.

I would have had one made for Thing One, but I didnt think she would wear it, and since Thing Two IS part Alaskan Indian, I thought it would mean more for her to have one.. I picked up some cool little trinkets for Thing One though. She was happy with what I brought her too!

Tuesday night Elizabeth’s parents made the YUMMIEST salmon dinner for us. Grace joined us and we had such a great dinner. I love salmon and Ms. Carol cooked it perfectly. She also made some wild rice that I WILL be including in my family’s diet, (somehow. man was it good) After dinner. Grace, Elizabeth and I went to Barnes and Noble where I enjoyed yet another Latte.. my caffiene buzz never even calmed down between hits.. In college I worked there in the children’s section and I used my vast knowledge of children’s lit to help them pick some new titles for Elizabeth’s kids and for the coming little one. SO much fun. I tell you.. I just didnt want the day to end, because I knew the next day Elizabeth was heading home to Soldotna.

I will get into the last part of the week tommorow.. this post is MILES long

I am jonesing for some thai food. I ate it every chance I got when I was in Alaska (they have several really good places to get great curries and the BEST Pad Thai EVER) I bought a pack of Thai Kitchen’s padthai mixy thingee to try since I dont have ANY local places to get it. We will see how it is though.

Here is where I need YOUR help.

 I tried a pineapple curry dish in Alaska that had chicken, and red curry and coconut milk and tofu.. and OH MY GOSH was it yummy. Id love to make it myself… I found mostly everything I need  but cant seem to find two things. Rice noodles (to make pad thai to go with it…) and RED curry. Id love to have it in a powder form. In Alaska they are sold in seasoning packets. IF you find some locally and wouldnt mind shipping me some Id gladly pay you for it! Id also like to make yellow curry with poatoes and chicken if you find some yellow curry packets. Maybe we could work out some kind of trade? I could ship you.. ummm grits?

In the midst of writing about my Alaska trip. I wanted to give you a quick update of whats going on here this week.

* I started back to work monday.. I was SO tired. Between catching up to the time change from my trip and fighting off a really bad cold getting up so early all week was a trick. But its saturday and I made it all week. I am learning lots and I think getting a handle on all the stuff I need to learn.  I think after I get all the training I need I will really enjoy working there. I love that I get to meet so many interesting people.

*Last saturday Steven and I went to our local speedway to the races! I didnt expect to enjoy it nearly as much as I did. I dont enjoy nascar too much so I didnt think that this would be much fun. BUT we know one of the guys who races (he goes to our church and is in our Sunday School class) Having a personal interest in someone who is racing made all the difference. Plus knowing that Steven was having such a good time and enjoying himself so much made it even more fun. If the weather cooperates we hope to go again tonight!

this is me all “red-necked out” in my “racin’ hat” that one of the guys gave Steven, watching the race. We met some friends from church Julie and Terry and thier two oldest boys and all sat together. I tried to talk the Things into going.. but they werent interested. 

* Thing Two had her first two official softball games. We have been practicing for about a couple months it seems like, but the season officially started monday. The first game was pretty close. We lost 4-2, but in our deffense the team we played was almost ALL second year girls.. and ours is more mixed. Thing Two looked so so cute in her uniform, and was walked both times she came up to bat this week. Good eye right? lol Her strike zone is just so small that its hard for anyone to pitch her a strike. The second game on thursday was a total shutout. We beat the Shoney’s team 12-1. I had a little conflict of interest there didnt I? lol.

We got word this week that Thing One’s age group did get enough players to start playing soon. I imagine we will be hearing from her coach sometime this week. She is a little nervous since the age group she is in is 13-18. And most of the girls playing play for the school teams. She hasnt ever played except in gym class and at summer camp. Actually I am nervous for her too! I hope she will enjoy herself though and wont be to intimidated. Thing One hasnt been getting much “airtime” on this blog lately.. with her playing ball I will have more of her to report! With a teenager no news is good news!

Ive been wanting to post some on my recent emergency trip “home” to Alaska. As Ive mentioned one of my mom’s younger sisters died unexpectedly and we went to Anchorage for the memorial service and to visit family. All of my Mother’s siblings hadnt been together in one place since my Papa’s funeral in the early 90’s.. so I felt like it was pretty important that we go. We werent able to afford for Steven and the girls to go.. but my sweet husband didnt even blink when I asked if I could go. I know it was a sacrifice for him.. financially as well as other ways. He was a trooper. He played the perfect Mr. Mom while I was gone. My new bosses at Shoney’s were also awesome. I had only been working there not even a whole week and they also didnt hesitate to grant my time off request.  I was so happy to see my family. There is nothing like that totally loved and enveloped feeling when you are surrounded by the branches of your family tree.

Honestly though I got more than that from this trip. I put more to rest than a favorite Aunt (they are all my favorite actually, I consider myself to be pretty lucky to feel that way too). I guess in the back of my head I felt like Alaska might still be my “home” like eventually Id go back, and things would be ok.  The words “home is where your heart is” rang so true for me this trip. I am more sure than ever that My heart is with Steven, and my girls and the life we have built in South Carolina. All week long I found myself humming  James Taylor’s “Carolina in My Mind”

sooo enough of the sappy philosophical stuff.. Here is what I did on my trip

Friday- We had to leave Dillon Prett early to get to Charlotte and our 1250 flight to Cincinatti. SO we said goodbye to the babies and my Daddy and Steven drove my Aunt, my Mom and I to the airport.( I waved in the general direction of CSP and the pugs at Shanny’s exit since she was in Orlando that day lol) Our actual flights were really uneventful. Squishy at times. But fine. I sat with Thelma and Louse ( I SWEAR)  on the last leg. They broke out margarita mix and were pretty drunk by the time we landed. I tried to sleep some.. but didnt get to much. We got in at about 11 and my sister and my uncles were there to pick us up. We hadnt seen them in about 10 years (the uncles) and it was kind of a shock to see that they had aged along with us! We all went to my Aunt Carrie’s house where my cousin Joey and Aunts Suzi and Carrie were waiting. We all talked at once and the noise was HUGE Finally at about 4 am I crashed on a futon in the livingroom.

Saturday- The Memorial service was today and we had kind of an easy morning. I called and checked in with one of my best girlfriends and she and my other best friend told me they were planning to be at the service.. It made me feel so good that they came to support me.

I am very very close to two of my cousins.. we were pretty much raised like brothers and sisters so I was SO SO excited to see my BOYS! Joey is all grown up now.  Such a handsome man. It was so fun to talk to him as an adult now.. no more annoying little dork for sure! Josh , who is another piece of my heart,  is a turd in a BIG way sometimes.. but I love him so much I cant see beyond that. Id fight anyone over either one of them.. but I feel particularly protective of him.. maybe because we are alike. We just ”get” eachother. He had produced TWO new nieces for me.. so I just couldnt wait to snuggle up those babies.

After we spent time with the girls and gave them a bath and got them all dressed out for the funeral, we went and got COFFEE. Esspresso is on every corner in Anchorage, and let me tell you. I tried to stop at every one!  I had so much coffee while I was there. I had like a constant caffiene buzz! Then we got ready and headed to the church (after a quick run for the border at Taco bell. mmm mm love me a bean burrito, and we dont have any near here) The memorial was scheduled for 5 pm but we kept things loose and started at nearly 6.. I think I will post about that separately. I will say that it was so special and really perfect for who my aunt was.

I sat with my best friends Erin and Elizabeth and Erin’s Mom. After the service, the ladies in the church provided a nice meal for everyone in attendance. It made it so easy to not have to think about feeding all those people. After spending a good amount of time visiting and taking pictures with my family my girls and I went out for drinks and some good visting time together (we went to Applebees.. it was open and appetizers are half off after 9) It was so good to get caught up with Erin, she got married since the last time we saw one another.. sadly her husband is going through some health issues and I wasnt able to meet him this trip. Next time for sure though!

We stayed out very late and by that time I was really begining to run down.. it was nearly 5 am SC time by the time we headed to Elizabeth’s parents house where she and I stayed all week. I cant stress enough how awesome it was to be with her. If there is a person who is your soul friend.. she is mine.  Truely a piece of my heart.. that girl. LOVE her. My room there was SO comfy. I had my own suite with a bathroom and all. That bed was a little piece of heaven after that long day! I truely had the best accomodations. Elizabeth and I kept right on talking until I was litterally falling asleep sitting up..

Which is kind of what I am doing now… I will hope to add some more tommorow and tell you about the FUNNER part of my trip

I have a LOT to blog about.. way to much to catch up on. I want to tell y’all about my trip to Alaska.. but I’m fighting some Native Arctic Crud that makes me want to collapse into my bed the minute I am not doing anything vital. I will get to it. I promise. I did however want to FINALLY post my bloggy photo day for you all. I got a few pictures.. but not that many.

My Friday started SO early. We were flying out at 6am Alaska time so we needed to be at the airport 2 hours before our flight since we had luggage to check and my Aunt has a little trouble getting from place to place. Thursday night we had finished packing up and kind of crashed where-ever.. I had spent about 3 hours enjoying my Aunt Carrie’s high speed cable Internet. I am totally spoiled now for dial-up ( as if I wasn’t already aware of how lame it is!) How much fun is Utube? lol

Anyway. I finally crashed at about midnight on the floor in the living room. At around 2 am I heard someone come in and my mom talking to some male voice. Assuming it was my cousin I stayed put.. until I realized it was one of my Uncles that had driven two hours to come and say good-bye and take us to the airport! SO sweet.  I got up and my sister who had been on the couch sat up and we had some good visiting time before we had to go to the airport.

This is me at 5 am. Before coffee or any other caffeine or anything. I was READY to come home.. and trying to be silly to keep my mom from boo-hooing. We were a little nervous about full flights and seating arrangements as my aunt is a BBW. Rather pooh shaped rather (actually all three of us are.. but she is more so than my mom and I) We arranged in Anchorage for the two of them to sit together and I in a window seat with a nice gentleman who I didn’t speak to.. nicely we had a seat between us. That’s always nice on a long flight.. and I went to sleep as soon as we cleared Anchorage airspace.

This is the Anchorage Skyline. Pretty huh. Darn cold though.

This is a shot of the Chugach Mountain range from the airplane. They line the horizon of Anchorage. I looked at the southern exposure of this particular mountain every day of my childhood.. kinda cool to see it from the top!

We landed in Seattle at about 10am Seattle time. This is a neat-0 shot of the space needle and the Seattle Center. I once went there and saw the circus. The spaceneedle has a really neat restaurantin it that spins slowly around. When we landed we had to go from an N gate to an A gate. It was literaly miles. We took both a tram and a little carty thing. It made this BEEP BEEP BEEP noise as we toodled though the airport. This little Polynesian woman kept hollering at the people who ignored the fact that they were in peril of being run over by us. “GET OUT OF WAY!” I waved like I was on a parade float.. my mother didn’t think it was that funny. But my aunt who is always good for a giggle laughed the entire way. When we FINALLY got to our gate I walked back to the food court a country mile and grabbed us some panini. They really have you at the airport.. reminded me of food at Disney world. Although the selection and quality was pretty good. Prices were outrageous! I paid $32 for 3 panini, 3 little bags of chips and 3 drinks. UGH.

The last picure is a neat stained glass that was at our gate. The thing was enormous. The colors were so so pretty. I couldn’t really figure out the story to it.. but Im pretty sure its a pacific northwest Indian story since the art style is theirs. I looked at it for a long time.

After I ate (and looked at the stained glass window) I went and arranged our seating again. This flight my mother and my Aunt again sat together and I was seated in a middle seat between two large-ish guys. It was squishy to say the least. Miserable.  But this plane had individual television consoles and directtv! How fun. It sure made the 1hr50 minute flight go by fast. I chatted with the gentleman to my left and he was a nice guy from Salt lake.

These are some mountains that are to the west of the airport in Salt Lake City Utah. (The guy to my right was nice enough to lean back so I could take a picture. The colors of the mesa were pretty. Totally different from Alaskan terrain. Definitely fun to look at.

In Salt Lake City we had a really really quick connection. But nicely our flight was on time (we actually never dealt with any late flights. Which is amazing considering that US airways cancelled thousands of flights the week we were traveling). I had time to run to the bathroom and brush my teeth before I had to arrange our seating again. Seating on this flight was crucial since it was over 4 hours long. Pretty important that we were comfy. Blessedly, it wasn’t a full flight. My mom and my aunt were seated in the bulkhead in a row by themselves and I was seated in a row to myself! I was able to stretch out and watch the movie. (the Golden Compass.. eh. not that great. but anything can entertain you when you are a captive audience.)

This is a fun shot of the Great Salt Lake. It goes for absolute miles and miles. Someone said something like the size of the state of Ct! I was so so glad to be on our last leg. I lay across the three seats and enjoyed a snack. Ghardetto’s pretzel mix is my absolute favorite snack food and I was able to grab a pack in Anchorage before we left! I was glad I had them as my tiny panini was GONE.

Here is where my diligent photography ends. I slept a couple hours and then we landed in Charlotte. We met Steven in baggage and he surprised us by bringing Thing Two along to pick us up. She was SO excited to see us. We pit-stopped at mcdonalds (it was nearly 12 am by then, so not much else was open) and zipped home.. I slept the entire way. It was nearly 3 am when we pulled into Dillon and I collapsed into bed. NOTHING feels better than your own bed after a long trip.

I hope to get to some details about our trip tomorrow or the next day.. if I survive this darn crud.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am home safe.. I haev TONS of pictures and stories to tell. But I will have to get to it when I have some time to sit still.. I am back to work tommorow morning and Thing Two has her first ball game tommorow night! LOVE to yall!

SO Im checking in from Alaska! Its been a really good trip.. well as good as an emergency trip home for a funeral can be.  Ive had time to spend with best friends and family and enjoyed the snow though, I do however as the song goes. “have Carolina on my mind” and am ready to head home to my honey andmy babies. Its springtime there and certainly isnt here! I will have lots of pictures and fun stories to share when I get back! LOVE yall!

I have been pretty silent.. I guess I dont know what to say. Early yesterday morning we got a call from Alaska. My Aunt had been found dead in a hotel room in a city where she had been on a business trip. I am dont really know what to say about it yet. I guess the hurt is still to big to comment lucidly on it.

My mom, My Aunt Cindy, and I will be flying out to Alaska tommorow. Its a grueling flight and for various reasons I am nervous about it. We will be in Anchorage for 6 days returnng next friday. I may or may not have internet access so if you dont hear from me, I am not MIA.. just in Alaska.

I am also a little odd about being in Alaska again.. its “home” yet it isnt. There are a lot of memories there.. good and bad. I am really excited though to see my family and friends and reconnect a little with them.

Work was totally cool about me being gone. which is a big relief. At least one thing I dont have to worry about.

Happy Birthday Thing Two! Yes, today is my BABY’s 8th birthday. EIGHT! We had a great day today. Even if it did storm and rain buffalos and elephants all day (thats WAY harder than cats and dogs!) We had a SOCCER party and grilled hot dogs and had strawberry pink cake. She got a load of presents and tonight went to spend the night with her best buddy. SO grown up it made my heart ache a little when she packed her little overnight bag and kissed me goodbye.  It seems like moments ago that I held her in the quiet of a hospital night and wondered at her tiny toes and the great responsibity that Id been given in her. I always used to think that my mother.. and other “older” adults were silly when they said nostaligcally “ohhh it seems like just a minute ago so and so was just a baby..” but its really true. They do grow up SO fast!

I guess most Mom’s remember the story of thier baby’s birth/the day they became a parent (I say it that way, because not all Mommy’s become parents in a delivery room!) on the child;s birthday. It really is a compulsion to tell the story.. Eight years ago today I was..

Really the most irritable and uncomfortable I have ever been. I was in labor with Thing Two for a really really long time. I had gone through a horrific pregnancy. Vomiting and early labor, and malnutrition and and and! I never thought Id get to that monumental 36 weeks where my OB would either allow me to naturally go into labor or induce it himself. After what seems like a zillion false starts I was finally admitted on a monday and labored for the next day and a half. I wont go into the little details but it was a long process riddled with hospital incompetance and unfortunate circumstance (there were 20  some odd babies born the day before Thing Two was born.. so they were BUSY to say the least) It was all awful… and then finally at 1:19 after only 3 pushes. there she was. Born out straight out of what I can only call a miracle and a divine direction. My mother, who was in the room describes the clarity that suddenly invaded the room. Perhaps it was a natural phenomenon.. my body naturally moving from one stage of labor through transition. But I have to believe it was something much more profound.

Let me expound a little.. I’ll get to a point… eventually.

 To be a successful person, I fully believe that a person must have a direction. A final destination if you will. A specific place to be going.  You gotta have an ultimate destination. If your detination goes undiscovered for to long, or you lost your original one for one reason or another. You must either find where you should go, or get back on the road to get where you had planned to go before you were lost. I was lost in a big big way.

My destination changed a lot in my early twenties. I tried a lot of roads, its ok to do that as long as you realize that at some point (the earier the better) that you must make a decision, plot out an itinerary ,and stick to the map you have drawn. I tried so many roads that eventually I pulled into a reststop and set up camp!

I partied, I made monumentally bad decisions and was heading down a path of addiction that would have led to places Id rather not imagine. Ive seen to many people arrive at THAT destination and its not a pretty place.

In that moment, the seconds when I felt T2’s little life moving from my womb into the world, my detination came into view.. it was a long long way off. But I had finally found my exit! I dont know if my inteded “destination” was to be a mother. If I hadnt strayed, maybe Id have been an evangelist, or a politician, or any number of the other “roads” I tried. But when she was born, and I felt the physical release of her being from mine. It was as if I saw a new map before me. The topography? Mountainous. The road? Winding. But there it was. Laid out before me.

Thing Two is an amazing person. She is beautiful, with grey green eyes, and a sprinkling of freckles across her nose. She is petite and she has stick straight brown hair that contains a cowlick to the left in her hairline. She is silly and serious all at the same time. She is my mother with her empathy for others and her uber-expressive face. She is her biological father when she stands just so, or tilts her head a certain way. She is my  maternal grandmother in her tenacity and the determined way she goes about something. She is her Daddy when she laughs and when she determines to do what is right. She is my sister when she plays practical jokes and is emotional. But most of all she is me.. my heart and the provider of my “map”.

Its still crazy around here. Today Steven and I ran errands and got some things done! I love when you get a lot accomplished.

  I start my new job in the morning so I needed to go buy my TREDSAFE brand shoes and a white button down top. I have been wearing either crocs, croc knock-offs or flip flops for something like a year. So any other show feels odd. When I tried on the tredsafe waitress shoes they felt soooo wierd. and constricting! They will definatly take some getting used to! They arent exactly lovely either.. but thats what the boss wants… so thats what I bought. (they also cost $30 and for me thats kind of a lot for shoes) I did find a deal on a cute white top. Its this stretchy material that will look like cotton yet move a little better. Not so many wrinkles.

I mentioned that this weekend is Thing Two’s birthday. I finally got around to picking up some presents for her. I felt a little guilty buying her presents since Thing One didnt get too much as far as gifts for her last birthday.. but Thing Two didnt get a weekend at the beach with a friend though. I try to keep them pretty close to equal. I feel like its important that there isnt any of that “your kid, my kid” stuff when it comes to buying them stuff. Thing One gets stuff from her Mom’s family that Thing Two doesnt get though.. since her biological isnt involved. So sometimes when Thing One is off with her Mom, Thing Two gets a little more attention, and maybe some things that I dont buy for Thing One. But for the most part I try really hard to keep it pretty close to equal.

I got her 3 really cute summer outfits and a badminton set for the yard.(she saw one at wally’s and wanted it)  I also picked up the Alvin and the chipmunks movie for her. I may see if I can find a game to play on her nintendo ds that my parents and steven and I are going together for. But thats about it. She will likely get a gift from my in-laws and from her buddies that are coming too.

I looked at the party themes today to see what choices I had without taking a trip into town today.. we are limited to say the least. I picked out 3 themes and then she will get to choose which one.. Im leaning toward a soccer/girls got game theme. I could make pink soccerball cupcakes! BUT the other themes are HSM or Hannah Montana.. so I may not get my choice lol.

If she choses the hannah montana stuff I will bake a plain sheet cake and then write HANNAH MONTANA in the middle and then write all her little sayings all over the rest of it. I think the soccer party would be more fun though. Something different than what everyone else does.