Mic's 18th.

Last Saturday we celebrated Michaela's 18th Birthday.

Mar and her friend Cate decorated Mic's room while she was out shopping with a friend.

 I pulled out our trusty birthday banner and updated the year to 18. I love a good reuse/repurpose makes-it-worth-the-hours-I-spent-making-it item, don't you? Previously used {here} and here:

You know I'll use that baby again. For future reference (because I'm sure I'll remember to look here... cough), the font is Rage. RAGE, Tina, RAGE. I remember looking for the matching font back when Mar turned 12 and couldn't find it for the life of me. For Mic's birthday, once again I found myself hunting for the original font. After a good 30 minutes of searching, and looking through my font list for what seemed like a hundred times, I, on a chance, tried Rage. Yep, that was it.

We headed to Red Robin that evening, only to discover there was a 1-hour wait time.

WHAT??? The waiting area didn't even seem that crowded, so I couldn't imagine such a lengthy wait.

We asked Mic what she wanted to do - wait or go somewhere else.

She decided we should try Chili's. We called ahead and only had a 30 min. wait time there, so off we went. It was a good choice because we were seated and had placed our order within 20 minutes of arrival. I'm only bummed that we neglected to snap a pic or two.

Afterwards we went home to have the red velvet/cream cheese cake Mic had selected for her birthday cake, and to sing Happy Birthday.

 I had spotted these awesome sparkler candles at Target earlier that day, and thought they would be spectacular enough for an 18th Birthday celebration.

Here's a quick clip of Mic blowing out those sparkler candles:

I didn't mean for them to be hard to blow out, but it made for a fun time.

Happy Birthday, Michaela!