✦ Celebrating ✦
She’s turning another year wiser.
She’s also growing a small monster.
We see absolutely no reason these can’t be celebrated simultaneously.
✦ because math is fun ✦
MARCH 14 · 1:59 PM · FIRST SIX DIGITS OF π
Carly’s actual birthday is March 12th — but we’re celebrating on March 14th, because it is mathematically the most correct party date imaginable. We will be raising a bowling ball (and a slice of pie) at precisely 1:59 PM sharp.
This is non-negotiable. π waits for no one.
✦ a totally transparent explanation ✦
Carly is turning another year older this month. She is also — and this is just a completely unrelated coincidence — about to welcome a baby girl into the world. A tiny, perfect, terrifying new human.
Her mom would love to throw a proper Baby Shower™. That’s really lovely. That is happening separately — a family affair in the summer, with aunts and finger sandwiches and all of that. We love it. We really do. (Stay tuned, Shannie. ♥)
This is Carly’s friends celebrating Carly’s birthday. The annual commemoration of the day Carly herself was born. Nothing else is implied here. Please do not read into the word “birth.”
the monster reveal 👹
the bump 🌟
the baby girl 🎀
she’s got a basket 🧺
✦ the scene ✦
EST. 1959 · ORIGINAL WOOD LANES
🎳 Plaza Bowling Co.
10418 118 AVE NW · EDMONTON, ALBERTA · T5G 0P7
Open since 1959. Third-generation family-owned and still swinging. Original maple wood lanes — the exact same ones installed the year they opened. Five-pin bowling (the correct kind). Alberta craft beer on tap. Grilled cheese sandwiches. The most authentically groovy bowling alley in Edmonton, and we are extremely pleased about this.
✦ a gambling opportunity ✦
A tiny human is incoming. How big? When, exactly? What’s the hair situation? Make your predictions, stake your claim, and lord it over everyone forever when you turn out to be right.
Real money on the line. Winner gets paid however they like. All the details — stakes, rules, and the pot — are over on the betting site.
🎲 Enter the Baby Pool✦ the birthday wish list ✦
Carly says she “doesn’t need anything for her birthday.” Carly is, with love, deeply incorrect about this. We have helpfully compiled a comprehensive list of everything she’s wishing for — totally standard birthday gifts, like a Snoo bassinet, a waterproof change pad, and approximately seven thousand diapers.
Very normal birthday stuff. As one does. Happy birthday, Carly. We got you diapers. Again, totally normal.
🎁 View Carly’s Birthday Wish List✦ don’t go home yet ✦
When the lanes go cold, the party doesn’t. Roll on over to ours after bowling
for drinks, hangs, good people, and the continued celebration of Carly, Pi Day,
and the beautiful, chaotic, incredible thing that is about to happen to this family.
Address shared with confirmed RSVPs.
✦ let us know you’re coming ✦
Quick 30-second form — we need a headcount for lane booking and to ensure there is a statistically correct amount of pie.
📋 Fill Out the RSVP FormOr just get ahold of Carly or Ryan — text, DM, carrier pigeon, whatever works.