i love my neighbors

so... i love all my neighbors. in our cul-de-dac of 8 houses alone we have 31 kids. my favorites, though are sisters katia and chickie (her name is actually nadia, but i didn't know that at first, so now she's chickie to me). their 6 brothers are pretty great, too. everytime we open our garage door or are outside, they flock to us to help with whatever we're working on. well... in one of those instances, chickie came and hung out with me while i did a craft project and we got onto the subject of birthdays. we found out our birthdays are only 10 days apart. flash forward to sept.20th (my birthday)...

the doorbell rings. wierd. shouldn't be. but is. we weren't expecting anyone and people don't usually just pop in. anyway... it was sweet katia and chickie wiht a homemade (from scratch) birthday cake for me! complete with "28" made of blueberries!! i totally MELTED!! wouldn't you?









so for 9 days i went back and forth about what to do for them. finally, i decided on making their family of 10 a platter of sweet treats. peanut butter balls, chocolate chip and nobake cookies and rice krispy treats. this pic is NOT the gigantic platter i sent over today for chickie's birthday, just some of the leftover goodies for my boys. i totally spaced taking a pic of the beautiful platter-full.