Celebrating 8 Years

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SG had a Brownie troop meeting on her birthday, so we had a chance to celebrate with her friends there!

We brought cupcakes and her troop sang happy birthday to her!

It's hard to imagine we had such glorious, warm weather in January!



 We came back from Brownies and Lovie, Pops, Nay, and Olivia came over to see her birthday surprise and open family gifts. Aaron and Charlie worked hard while we were gone to get her big gift ready!

 She was very surprised to see it assembled in her room!

 Charlie was su proud that he help put her new desk together! We gave her a desk and Lovie and Pops gave her the chair to go with it! She has really wanted a desk to do her homework and drawings that she enjoys doing.

Charlie gave her bath stuff that he couldn't wait for her to open!

She had some awesome gifts from family! Squishies from Grancy and Ger Ger were a hit; fashion drawing tools from Gramma were exciting; a cool new outfit from Aunt Barbara and Uncle Les; a mermaid dress from Nay and Livy; lots of books from Aunt Lex and Uncle Tim; and money to buy what she wanted from Maw Maw and G G were all big hits!




We had a birthday dinner at one of her favorite places, Red Lobster! They even brought out a special ice cream sundae and sang to her! 
She celebrated as much as she is loved!

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