Saturday was my Daddy’s birthday and the family met at Olive Garden (AKA: “The Fancy Restaurant” if you ask Little Bug) to celebrate!

Little Bug wore her princess dress up shoes because we were going to “The Fancy Restaurant”. It was just one of those battles I just didn’t find worth fighting. So what if she wanted to click clack her way through Olive Garden in her princess high heals!

Side Note: That beautiful golden hair you see? It is getting chopped off this week. It almost feels sinful to allow her to get it cut, but it has become “unmanageable” without “blood, sweat and tears” lately. Okay, not blood, but it takes Dave nearly half an hour to blow dry it (yes her sweet Daddy washes and dries her hair) and every morning I deal with torrents of tears as I work the tangles out.

So the time has come to cut it. To where, I don’t know! I am going to ask about Locks of Love and if she has enough hair, we may cut it to be able to donate it to Locks of Love. But I’d say at least a good 6-8 inches are going.

Ok, back to Gramps’ birthday party! I didn’t realize this until just recently that he and Little Bug are 60 years apart. This year he turns 64 and she will turn 4.

Celebrating Gramps! He sure loves all the special ladies in this picture.

It was present time and Little Bug leapt across the table to help Gramps. Because clearly, after 63 years of opening presents on your birthday, you still need help from your granddaughter on your 64th birthday!

We got Gramps a bag of pistachios because Gramps’ and Little Bug’s thing recently is to have “Pistachio Parties” where they sit together and eat pistachios by the hand full! We also gave him a pack of pens and some dark chocolate.

And my mom gave him a cap with “Gramps” engraved on it!

We had a wonderful time together until poor Little Bug got up from the table so we could go wash hands before eating and her princess shoe literally broke in half as she was walking! Oh, she was devastated! Fortunately, she had a pair of flip flops in the car and Daddy ran to the car to get them for her to wear.

Happy Birthday, Daddy/Gramps!!

- Elaine