Makenna turns 11

This past Monday was Makenna's birthday. She turned 11. Hard to believe, but true. We spent the past weekend helping her to celebrate. On Saturday night we took Makenna and her friend Kristen to Cape May. No, not Cape May New Jersey, but Cape May, the restaurant in the Yacht and Beach Club at Disney.

Here's a shot of Makenna and Kristin on the beach outside of the hotel. Makenna likes to go to this restaurant mostly because it's a buffet and on the buffet they have steamed clams.

Makenna loves steamed clams, don't you Makenna? All you can eat? Um, ok.

What Makenna didn't count on was having our waitress, Karen, make her stand on her chair and have the whole restaurant sing happy birthday to her. Oh well, it was fun!
After dinner we hung out on that beach watching the fireworks from Epcot.

On Sunday we went to New Smyrna Beach for a bit of family time in the sun. Rich and I had gotten Makenna a new skim board for her birthday, so we put a big bow on it and packed it in the back of the van with all the other beach stuff. When we got to the beach Makenna got her new skim board. Makenna was happy then.

Very happy, see.

Here's an action shot.

On Monday, Makenna's actual birthday, we hung out and played Clue a lot. Makenna wanted to have a really low key day for her birthday, mostly playing Clue, going to the Cat Protection Society (her new fav place!) and watching a movie. We did all that (National Treasure was the movie) and had her friend Amalie over for dinner and more Clue.

What a nice birthday and birthday weekend Makenna had.

We all had.

Happy Birthday, Makenna!! We love you.