Shirley Temple

Happy 9th Birthday to my niece Abbi! Aunt Stephanie, Abbi and Grandmother came to St Louis to go to the zoo and celebrate Abbi's big day! She even got to pet the sting rays. For some reason, Abbi has found a fascination with Shirley Temple...movies, songs, dolls...and she's discovered "googleing"! So, after some digging, I found an idea for some cute "Shirley Temple" cupcakes. We also all had genuine Shirley Temple "cocktails". What a celebration. Abbi had found a $125 doll on EBAY even...Mark and I settled for a $20 one from a local collector...she said "it would work". Uncle Mark also threw in a turtle that he found in the backyard with her gifts. Come to find out, it might be a snapper - so they've already released it to the "wild" aka Grandmother and Papa's backyard. Aunt Stephanie says she'd never seen a turtle move that fast to get away!

Happy Birthday Abbi!