Zoey's 1st Birthday Party (at Sun Valley)

Zoey's Second 1st Birthday Party took place on Sunday, June 21st at Sun Valley. The Family gathered to enjoy a delicious dinner of Minard's rigatoni, meatballs, and salad. Yum!

The Cake. Same deal as the other cake - still yummy. This time I knew Zoey could handle the blueberry skins, so Delia and I whipped up the extra icing with fresh blueberries and piped it through a baggie for this festive look!

Here's the Birthday girl getting her first bites. Delia and I look on.

More, please.


Cake makes very good hair gel.

The family photo!

Grandma Pat asked someone to hang up the "Happy Birthday" sign....

with no real place to hang it, hilarity ensued.

Aunt Tracy and the Birthday Girl.

Here's where the Blueberries come into play: Long story, short. Neil Gaiman is John's favorite author. (Tracy loves him too.) Tori Amos is loved by the whole family. Neil and Tori are friends. When she was pregnant with her daughter, Natasha, Neil wrote a poem for her "Blueberry Girl." (I guessing it's a play on "Cornflake Girl," a song by Amos.)

Anyhoo... evidentally he published the poem this year (Tasha was born in 2000). John tried to find the book - he couldn't. Tracy found it (without knowing he had looked) and gave it to Zoey. She also made her a beautiful blue dress to go with it (pictures, to come).

I had no idea about any of this. It was simply in the stars that my sweet Beana have blueberries for her birthday.

I read the poem outload to Zoey around the birthday table. We all cried. That's what we do, we Walls girls... we cry. It's ok. We accept it. And evidentally so do the men that love us. :)

Happy Birthday, Zoey!