Another busy birthday season for our family! A tiny bit of May, June and most of July 2024!

We celebrated our grandpa Ray’s birthday on Saturday evening. For his birthday presents he got a golf push cart from Joel and Ashley, booze from me and Luke, and my parents gave him racing tickets.  Again! I coloured his birthday card which was a bunch of candy! We had great day celebrating him!

 For my birthday celebrations, on my actual birthday, which was Friday. I got a manicure with French tips with red balloons while my mom got a pedicure. We made lime cheesecake and macaroons for my birthday party on Saturday! In the evening we watched dad play music with his band, the Baking Soda Boys at the Bailey theatre and everyone in the audience sang Happy Birthday to me. My auntie Gail and my uncle Wayne were in town for my dad’s concert * baking Soda boys* and for my birthday party on Saturday. So, on Saturday afternoon, we ordered sushi for lunch and had homemade lime cheesecake for dessert. We did a painting with the family. We put the cloths and a little sponge inside of the doggie bag, and then used them to make flower petals, then we painted leaves and stems. On Saturday night, I went to Peter Pan ballet with my friend Maryann. On Sunday afternoon I went bowling with friends from Centra Cam and then everyone came over for raspberry cheesecake & caramel and pecan cheesecake and punch. It was a super fun and enjoyable birthday celebration that lasted the whole weekend! I can’t believe I’m 29 years old already!

For birthday presents, I got a new beautiful Butterfly blanket, jewelry, a new purse and a colouring book and of course more bath bombs too! Grandpa and Shandy got me a red jacket for my birthday, Auntie Gail got me a Winner’s gift card, my parents got me a towel, address book, PJ bottoms and white shorts/ skirt! Grandma got me a butterfly bag and more bath bombs. I got hair elastics in a butterfly shape holder! My friend Maryann gave me some flowers. I got really spoiled with birthday presents! I had a beautiful weekend celebrating my birthday!

 For Father’s Day, I took grandpa Ray and my dad for coffee at Tim’s Horton and then we spent the evening at Joel and Ashley’s house! For dinner we had ribs, chicken, salad, and garlic bread. Mashed potatoes and stuffed mushrooms. My grandpa and his wife Shandy made rhubarb cake with ice cream. It was a very tasty and delicious meal. Those boys got spoiled this year… Dad got some t-shirts, beer from Joel and Ashley. From my brother Luke and I a big guitar pick with words for decoration in his studio room downstairs! It says *music is what feelings sound like *. Grandpa Ray got a case of beer as well!   Ashley got Joel a Ninja Creamii ice cream maker for Father’s Day from their dog Coco!  So we tried some homemade sorbet and it was delicious! After dinner and desserts, we played a game Left and Right Center, as I just got it from our family friend Lisa for a late birthday present. It was successful Father’s Day!

On Thursday morning we did Body image, The Media and My Story of Living with Cerebral Palsy school presentation at Chester Ronning School and it went really well! On Friday morning Centra Cam had me do the presentation for the Centra Cam’s staff for their learning and training day! That’s a wrap for the presentations. I did a total of 13 school presentations this year that included 249 kids in total! We did all the schools in Camrose except for Sparling. We went out of town 4 times (Forestburg, Edberg, Kingman and Killam.)

On Sunday afternoon Mary Ann and I went walking around the lake! For Canada Day my dad and I went to the Canada Day Festival at the Museum. I played the outdoor games and did a science experiment! Then we took some free Canada Day colouring pages and some free Canada Day Tattoos home. My mom and I coloured some Canada Day Pictures . After our BBQ of Hamburgers and Watermelon, my parents and I did some Canada Day Tattoos together! It was a great Canada Day Celebration! Happy Canada Day everyone!

We had my mom’s birthday dinner on her birthday which was on Wednesday night! We ordered pizza from Boston Pizza and had homemade chocolate mint cake! My mom got spoiled with birthday presents, she got a Dog/coyote spray, butterfly diffuser, Shower gel, chocolate bars, birthday flowers, candle and Perfume! From us kids, we got her a new Fitbit for her birthday! Her friend Anna Marie surprised her with balloons. After birthday presents and birthday cake, we played *Nine* the golf card game for awhile! She had a really good birthday! On Friday evening we celebrated more of my mom’s birthday with her girlfriends Anne Maire, Karen and Lisa from her old book club and spent the evening outside with some homemade banana bread and some cookie/ brownies that her friend Anna Marie made! It was a beautiful evening outdoors and it was great evening with our girlfriends! On Saturday afternoon I got strawberry nails done! On Monday evening we had birthday bash with Rose Club and had a great time! On Wednesday evening we went neon bowling with Rose club and had a great time! My score was 87! I glowed in the lights as I wore white and even my fingertips glowed as well!

 We celebrated my brother Luke’s 26 birthday on Thursday evening which was his birthday! For dinner Luke requested ribs, corn bread and salad. My brother Joel brought smoked Pork belly burnt ends! For dessert Luke requested Brownie cake, toasted almonds and cream cheese icing on top! For his birthday presents he got shower gel, money, dish soap, toothpaste and toothbrush * boring adult supplies *. I made him a homemade Star Wars themed birthday card. I coloured Luke Skywalker, some letters that said happy birthday Luke, I hope you have a great day and some green stars. Then I put everything on a blue card and added some birthday stickers as well! It was simple enough for his birthday card from his favourite sister! It was a good evening to celebrate Luke’s 26 birthday!

On Friday evening after Maryann, I and Alayna (Mary’s daughter) went swimming, we went to visit our friend Mary! On Tuesday evening we had summer bingo with our friends from Rose club. I got a bingo on the word bingo all about summer and we used markers to mark. So, I got a sign for our house, and I got another bingo on the bingo card that we used chips. From that bingo I won a Canada Day Flag fidget toy. It was a good evening and a good game for everyone to enjoy! Stay tuned for more summer activities coming up! I hope everyone has been enjoying the hot weather so far if you have air conditioning!