Happy Belated Birthday, Kelly and Danielle!!!

The title of this post is a little deceiving.....we were not belated with our birthday wishes to them, but this post is a day late, sorry girls! :)

Let's start with Kelly....she is my little sister. I have no other sisters, but I can't seem to shake the "little" label when introducing her. She turned 24 yesterday!!!!! Here's the Hogan gang that celebrated Kelly's birthday party!

We started the big celebration at the Pelican Yacht Club where we all had dinner and drinks. The birthday girl is on the left in the front row (wearing the green dress) Jon, Aunt Roxanne, Uncle Pat, Mommy, Daddy, me and Justin make up the rest of the party!

After supper we went to grandma's house to have a homemade Angel Food Cake (Hogan tradition) and ice cream and to open presents! I seem to remember mentioning loving family dinners before....hmmm.

I gave Kelly an Easter Avenue Company purse for her b-day. The selection at Sentiment was sparse (they are expecting a shipment any day now), so I got the purse that had the prettiest fabric, but I had major concerns that the purse wouldn't match anything. Much to my surpirse, the purse matched the dress she was wearing that night....WOOHOO!

Danielle's turn!

Danielle and her husband Russell are our dear friends that live way too far away....Ocala. They came over the Wednesday night before Labor Day to make the crossing with us to Bimini for a short vacation.

Since Danielle and Russell live in Ocala, we were not going to be able to see her on her birthday, so Grandma and I decided that she needed a surprise birthday on the last day of our stay in Bimini!

We got to celebrate Danielle's birthday with Grandma Price's famous Pineapple Upside Down Cake (Price tradition)!

Grandma got help from everyone one the island to pull of Danielle's surprise party. Kenny and Pauline provided Happy Birthday Plates, decor, and parasols and Ron was able to find some blueberries for the center of the pineapples (there were no maraschino cherries in Grandma's fridge, and no one else had any, so Ron got creative).

We had a wonderful steak and lobster dinner, and then, when Danielle wasn't looking, we hung the Happy Birthday banner and pulled the cake out of the oven....it was so fun! She had no idea that we were going to celebrate her birthday, and, since birthdays were never a big deal when she, was growing up she was so excited to have all this comotion just for her.

Happy birthday, girlies! We love you! :)