Happy Sweet Sixteen Alexandria Marie

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One more time

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Just one more time...HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETPEA! One last cake picture to post and probably one of the biggest smiles on Sweetpea's face ever. Our trip to Tubac was absolutely perfect today. There are still a couple more streets worth of galleries that we have yet to make it into, but they are just going to have to wait for another trip down there.
Sweetpea picked out some great birthday gifts which could very well tonight be adding to the huge smile on her face. A calm relaxing drive out there and back, and her being able to have a conversation with her Mom. (To bad Mom can not have the ability to sit and type this in whole sentences vs. the couple of word at a time thing that is going on here.)
Sweetpea thinks that seventeen is going to be a great year, and if the whole year could be like today, then I'm sure it would be.

I hope that everyone had a good day and yet one more time Sweetpea, Happy Birthday Baby Girl!! I love you very much!

Seventeen Today

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The last of the March birthday week for the house is here. My Sweetpea is seventeen today! Sometime today she will want me to measure her to see if this is the year that she finally hit the five foot tall mark. Don't let her small size fool you though she is the toughest little cookie I have in this house. She is my quietly watching and observing child, and through her eyes the world is filled with many flowing colors blending in just the most perfect ways. She is sweet and caring with a fine mix of back the heck off unless I tell you I want you near me. There is no limit for her imagination, and for her anything can be real if she wants it to be. Being the middle child she sometimes has to fight to make her voice heard, but most of the time she sits back and just waits for those private moments that she would rather have with Mom.
I know spending the day with her today and our art filled journey is going to be incredible. So Happy Birthday my Sweetpea!

There will be a post later in the day with more cake and a new picture of the birthday girl, heck I might even get my normal Friday Feline posting done. I hope that everyone has a great day.

Happy Birthday Binky Sue

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Just wanted to make sure that I got a picture up from today of my Binky Sue, and what better picture than with the second cake in the last 4 days. An oh so very colorful dessert fruit pizza for cake that Sweetpea and Little Bug finished topping while Binky Sue and I spent the day up at the Tucson Mall shopping. The cake looked perfect, the special request dinner was just about perfect, and the day spent with my Binky Sue was completely wonderful! There are new clothes in the house tonight from the birthday girls shopping trip. There is a beautiful dress bought just waiting for graduation night, and the trip up and back was one filled with laughter. So just one more time with the happy birthday to my baby girl, and I hope that everyone had a great Monday.

Eighteen Today!

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I have spent a good amount of time this weekend thinking about Binky Sue turning 18, and even with doing that I still don't know just what to say other than WOW! The feeling of not really knowing just where the last 17 years went is amazing. I'm wishing that I could find the ability to type something great here this morning, but I doubt that I'm going to find that here today. My first baby girl is eighteen, and even though she swore she wasn't ready, I know in my heart that she is.

Binky Sue I have watched you grow from a very happy baby to a beautiful (most of the time) happy young woman. Your drive and determination to achieve any goal you set for yourself, blows me away. I know for you the months counting down to this day and graduation in two months have had you fearful of the "what do I do next". But I have no doubt that you will find just what path it is that you want to put your once so tiny feet upon. Remember that you have the job of breaking the ground with all of the "Firsts" for Mommy, and while there is no end to being a Mommy there is a time we have to step aside and let wings be spread to start your own flight through life. Today is one of those major mile stones with another one steam rolling up upon us both.(Enough time to think about that one later though) For today enjoy a wonderful birthday and remember that Mommy is old now and might not be able to keep up with you at the mall. : )
I love you much my Binky Sue and hope that today is all that you want it to be!

Waking up to a small surprise

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Today for my blog was going to be like any other day this week, with a posting of probably another rodeo picture. However, since I woke up and wandered out here to find a tiny little surprise sitting waiting for me on my desk, I'll post a picture of it instead because it is just so perfectly cute. Army Guy left me a kitchen fairy for my birthday on my desk. I think it has been a while since I have looked at them at the store because I don't remember seeing this one. She is the perfect small and simple gift that I love to get. Thank you Army Guy...oh and I love you!

March brings a lot of birthday for oh my goodness a ton of our friends and family, but today marks the beginning of all of the one's for under this roof. Today is my own birthday, my 39th to be exact. In four days from today Binky Sue will be turning 18, and I still can not believe that is time for that one already. Four days after Binky Sue comes Sweetpea and her turning 17, another one that I can not believe it is time for already. Hence the reason I love the small and simple gifts, because WOW we have a lot of birthdays to get through.

I hope that everyone is having a good week, and once again a Happy Birthday to everyone who was lucky enough to be born in this busy month of March.

Happy Birthday Little Bug!

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Well it is here! The first day of her teenage years has finally arrived! This Little Bug just isn't so little anymore, but I think we will keep the name anyway. If you read yesterday's entry you know that she is already having good day, and since everyone got up...even her older sister's who are lucky enough to have the week off...just to tell her happy birthday this morning before she heads out to school, her day is going great so far.

Ah the teenage years, when the good night kisses get quicker, shorter and there is way more time spent hiding in the room. I can not believe that time has passed so quickly and my last baby is finally a teen. Happy Birthday Little Bug! I hope that your day is filled good things.