Alice Celebrates Mary's Birthday

Mary Elliott's birthday, that is! The Elliotts are longtime friends of the Baldauf family, and by proxy, now friends of Alice! Alice actually knew the Elliotts long before she moved to Columbia, now she just sees them more.

As usual, the girls were the first to arrive. Here is Alice with her only red-headed granddaughter, Beth.

Then Mary's mother, Frances, came. She knows a lot of people from the Sanford, NC area - some of the same people Alice knows! Here, Alice is sharing a print out of the Blog with Frances, who just this evening learned what a Blog is, and now she is on one!

Alice also shared some pictures from home with Frances.

The first Elliott to arrive was Will, who came in with a "mama" cicadia - that's it on his shoulder. That was a huge hit with Alice, but somehow, we couldn't get her picture with the dead mama cicadia.

After pizza for dinner, everyone celebrated Mary's birthday with a cake. Alice had the big job not of baking it, but thawing it out! It was a Sam's cake, but it was yummy and pretty, too.

While Mary blew out the candle, Alice sneaked some icing.

The Elliott's have three kids: Will, Frances Anne and John Douglas. You've seen Will and Frances Anne from movie pictures, but this is John Douglas, Alice's Braves buddy.

Whose birthday is next???