Rachael's birthday!

Rachael's 11th birthday was on Saturday.  So we spent the day celebrating.  We had a movie morning with her good friend, Morgaine, in Reston Town Center.  We met Maureen and we all went to see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Rachael's choice).  We almost had the whole theater to ourselves!  Then we meandered town center and went shopping and Maureen bought Rachael a beautiful bracelet.    

Late that afternoon, we went to see Twilight Polo.  That was tons of fun!  We've never been before.  You can bring blankets, picnic, wine, etc.  We sat out there and enjoyed the polo match and then there was a DJ so we ended up dancing the night away!  All in all, a great day.  We came home absolutely exhausted!

Rachael's big present from us was tickets to Analuna (we seem to be developing an expensive birthday theme of tickets to something).  But we also gave her a bunch of cupcake stuff and she was thrilled!

Here's the polo match!  It was really neat.

Then we, no joke, forgot the candles.  This is totally something that we would do, isn't it?  Totally like the time we brought Trevor's ice cream cake to the beach with us, packed in dry ice.  It was so hard when we went to cut it that it broke the knife!  We have lots of crazy birthday stories.  

Anyway.. a toothpick makes a great candle when you're in a pinch.  ;)

See?  Beautiful girlie, toothpick candle.  

Happy birthday, Rachaelie!

Enjoying a rainbow cupcake.  

Zen enjoying his rainbow cupcake (well, at least the icing!)

Rachael pretending to be a mannequin in RTC.  

Morgaine the mannequin!  

Happy 11th Birthday Rachael!