This weekend we celebrated my daughter’s 9th birthday.

She started the day off by opening some gifts and cards:

Hello Dali

We went to the Albemarle County Fair, where we admired these sleeping beauties:

Sleeping beauties

The birthday girl wanted Pad Thai and a Shirley Temple for dinner:

We went home to have her favorite, specially-commissioned Red Velvet Cake:

and to shower our favorite girl in the whole wide world with some birthday love: