The Big 21

Yesterday Ariana turned 21 - a milestone birthday.

Not even the treacherous ice and snow-crusted roads could keep us away from the Texas Roadhouse, where Ariana wanted to go to celebrate her birthday.

Here's the birthday girl herself (with little Todie), enjoying her first legal drink - a strawberry margarita.

Ariana and Todie sharing a hug.

After a gut-busting meal, the birthday cake - a luscious strawberry bombe - arrived.

But before Ariana could dig into her cake, she had to sit on the Texas Roadhouse birthday saddle

while the staff shined a light on her and had the whole restaurant give her the traditional wild Texas Roadhouse birthday "Yee-Haw!"

Finally it was time for the cake.

But beforing blowing out the candles, let's think of a wish.

All the candles are out.

And let's hope the birthday wish comes true.

That was some good birthday cake.

(Here's a pic that I took, forgetting that I did not have the flash on. I thought it looked pretty cool and wanted to include it in this blog.)

It was a great meal . . .

. . . a great cake. . .

. . . and . . .

. . . a great day.

Happy Birthday, Ariana-Cookie-Pie-Sugar-Plum-Fairy-Girl-Best-Little-Girlie-In-the-Whole-Wide-Worlie!