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Molly's 18th birthday

That post title deserves a whole lot of explanation marks behind it.  18!!!!!! Wow!  Molly is an adult now although it doesn't really count for anything until she is graduated from high school and that is in part very true.  I'm holding on to her as long as I can!

(Although she can vote in this year's election and when I take her to doctor's appointments, they talk to her and make her do all the paperwork and stuff.  It's weird.)

Molly turned 18 on Sunday, September 15, 2024.  She was slightly disappointed earlier that week because I don't know if she was thinking we were going to celebrate her big day appropriately.  With soccer all the time and Homecoming the weekend of her birthday (again) there really wasn't a good time to do anything.  I tried to make her day as special as I could and I think she was happy with how it went.

Molly is not a big breakfast eater, mostly because she just doesn't give herself time to actually eat anything before school.  She also doesn't love eating early.  She requested French Toast this year so I had that ready before church and she did give herself time to eat.  Then we went to church where I told the other kids that I got to sit by the birthday girl.

She didn't really want a lunch because it was Sunday and we always just kind of do snacky things after church and have an earlier dinner.  She wanted a cheeseball and crackers so we snacked on those while we waited for Justin to get home and while I worked on her dinner.

Molly was specific about what she wanted to do the rest of that day and her request was yellow curry in the mountains.  We had not been able to get to Mirror Lake before school started in August and she was itching to get to her happy place in the mountains.  I wasn't sure how I would do curry in the mountains but I did my best and it actually turned out to be a perfect day.  I made the curry in my heavy duty dutch oven pan and rice in the instant pot and I wrapped them both in tin foil and towels.  Then Justin put both of them in the cooler.  When we got them out an hour+ later, they were both still hot.  Yay!  We also had delicious, homemade garlic naan bread to complete our mountain meal.  We were able to find a picnic table and had a beautiful background while we ate.  My parents and Chloe met us there so that was nice too.

After our yummy dinner we decided to take a walk around the lake.  As it goes in the Uintahs often, the weather was finicky.  We started our walk with sunshine, got three-quarters around the lake, and then got rained on pretty good.  We picked up our pace but the rain had stopped by the time we got all the way around the lake and then the sun was back out so we could do presents and cake.  Molly loves rain as well so it was a storm just for her birthday.

Ivy, Grandpa, Brynn
Chloe and Molly

She opened presents next.  She got some Bath and Body stuff from Chloe and Grandma and Grandpa and then the clothes she picked out when she went shopping with my mom.  From Justin and me she got her favorite treats (white chocolate pretzels, orange creme Twizzlers, and dark chocolate orange sticks).  She also got a Noah Kahan record (perfect mountain music if you ask me), a new blow dryer brush because she can't live without one and hers had stopped working, and some cash for shoes.  She had been scouring eBay for vintage Dr. Marten sandals but had yet to find exactly what she was looking for, hence the moola.

Chloe and Molly

Her cake request was simple...angel food cake, fresh whipped cream, fruit. Easy-peasy and delicious.  I insisted on 18 candles on that cake but there was a breeze and we didn't have a lot of success keeping all 18 lit at the same time.  Justin put one candle in Molly's serving so she was able to blow out that single candle. 

Grandpa, Molly, Grandma
We were wrapping up the party and ready to head home but we had to take some scenic photos before we took off.  I don't know how our family ended up being so silly!  It was such a fun day.
Justin, Molly, Grandma, Brynn, Ivy, me, Grandpa, Stockton, Chloe
Molly and Chloe
Grandma, Molly, Grandpa

Molly has amazing friends and I loved seeing some of their posts on social media that night.

from Jackie Bingham
from Chloe
from Andie Dummar
from Kylie Bishop
from Tiana

Gene and April came to Molly's next soccer game when they played (and beat) Timpview.  Tiana and Corbin came too which was a surprise and so kind of them!  It was the only rainy game we had all season.  They gave Molly her gift after the game, a retro camera that she had wanted.  It's tiny and fits on her keychain, the photos look retro like the name suggests, and she can plug it into her phone and save all the photos to her camera roll.  So she has had a lot of fun playing around with that.

Gene, April, Molly, Tiana, Corbin
Molly and Tiana

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