Here I am again. I dropped off the world for a while there. Actually, I was just incredibly busy. Things are slowing down now. Gosh, I haven't written anything on here since before my birthday! Wow!

Well, I turned a year older. Had friends over. (The Davises, of course. Who else could it be?) They asked to be allowed the privilege of showing up in masks. So I figured, why not? Add a little fun to the night. Manda came looking like Carmen Sandiego, but I don't actually think that's the model she had in her mind. Danielle wore a butterfly mask. Derek came as a pirate/Batman person. James, ever musically-inclined, appeared wearing a half-face mask, much in the fashion of the Phantom of the Opera. I wore a ladybug mask, fashioned specially by and for yours truly.

The party was great fun. Mom made a ladybug cake and I only blew out, like, four candles on the first try. (My mask got in the way.) So let's see . . . my age minus four candles . . . It left quite a few. Guess I don't get my wish this year.

We played Probe for, like, one round. Then to liven things up (I felt like falling asleep at my own party), we took pictures. What fun! Not just normal pictures. We discovered the value of "rapid shot" photos. Stick one of them babies on a timer and your bound to have fun. Enjoy---

We had to go run around outside after that just to cool off. It was all fun and games till they locked me out of the house.

Daddy got me opal earrings for my birthday. I love them!! Tiny little teardrops on my ears. James got me a large jewelry box, the kind that stands upright and has drawers and hooks inside. Mom bought me an awesome Victorian/western style white blouse. Very cool. And the Davis people gave me the world's coolest little black purse and a white beaded necklace. The purse is leather and has chain straps with leather strips woven through it. So cool, so cool.

And so that was my birthday.