It's a big weekend for our birthday girl who's turing 16 today. She received one enormous arrangement of flowers yesterday (white stargazer lilies with a Lenox vase) and then today, a delivery of a dozen red roses with 2 birthday balloons - UNSIGNED from an admirer, presumably a boy. She's going crazy trying to figure out which friend might have sent these. Heck, if I were sending a dozen roses to someone I liked, you can bet I'd want to get credit for having done so - no unsigned cards from me! I imagine the truth will come out soon. The lilies were awesome - they came in a huge box, carefully packed, all the buds tightly closed up. She trimmed them and put them into the vase with water, and within an hour they were beginning to open up.
It's now 5 hours later, and she received yet another gift of flowers a little while ago. We'd just gotten home from a family get-together at Graeter's (Cincinnati's best ice-cream parlors!) and the doorbell rang, with Kyle giving the final gift of (more) stargazer lilies - pink this time. Our house is really looking like there's just been a death in the family .... vases everywhere.
Anyway, the outing to Graeter's was a great idea - we didn't have to fuss with cleaning up the house (!) and everyone loves some good ice cream. Graeter's is also well known for their candies, chocolates and pastries, beautifully displayed all over the shop. They're geared up for the coming Easter holiday with chocolate bunnies and eggs, lollipops and jelly beans ... they've got it all. And of course the pints of their most popular flavors of ice cream are ready to go too. We ate our fill of ice cream cones and sodas and talked up a storm, a sweet ending to a special birthday for Kelly!
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