Happy 21st Birthday

I got a kid alive to 21!?! Yeah, we BOTH deserve a drink for that. But, it also is making for a change in birthday celebrations in general. Not mine, of course. Mine is the day nobody remembers or remembers other family member who has it and always brings it up. That tradition will be permanent. But, the change with the kids is that now it is having dinner at a restaurant that that person chooses. It must be on that day also. Helps that none of my kids are big cake eaters. We would do thecake per child and what slice wasn't eaten that day would go bad. They also never liked getting a single dezsert with a candle for that day either. So, this seems the best to do. I'm curious where the younger two will pick.

This layout is for the boy's first drink. Of course, I rarely get pictures of him because he doesn't like them being taken. He goes out of his way to look bad in them. Can you believe there was a time where he LIKED to have pictures taken? I miss those days.

In the layout, I used background paper only from my Brewtiful Day paper pad. I took quite a few stickers from the Sticko stickers I got from Walmart. The square stickers came from Cobble Creek which I got at Marc's. I added a few green, red, gold, and blue sequins that I got on clearance from Dollar General. The journal square was from another Michael's paper pad. The bottle cap was interesting to get on. I ended up layering my foam in it to make it secure and tacked it on the page. Melt image is the particular restaurant he chose. We had a great waitress (Ashley). My receipt faded too much to add. Lastly, the gems at the top also came from Walmart because the photo got a spot where the ink didn't take and I needed it covered.

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I'm submitting this to Festive Friday's latest challenge. I'm chuckling over the tidbit that this is not even a girl as a subject with the holiday being about girl scouts even though he has been mistaken as a girl from behind in the past. So, his favorite girl scout cookie is Thin Mints. Or is it the Chocolate peanut butter ones? I used to get both for him. But, how I encorporated the list was the brown background paper, green and blue in multiple places on the page, both the title and bottom sticker giving birthday sentiments, gold splashes, and the candle on the cupcake for the one sticker.
So, that's another layout down. The laundry piles ever higher and keeps feeling more depressing. I'm off to eat. Comment away.