Angel’s first fifth birthday

I can’t believe our “baby” is FIVE!  Well, almost.  She will be five on Saturday.  And she WAS the “baby” for more than four years.  And if we had not had Scooter I am sure I would be coming undone over this birthday!!

My camera is not what it used to be, so the photos were painfully blurry.  But I think the smiles come through loud and clear.

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Evaluating her Rapunzel cake.  Thankfully my kids are very forgiving…  They know my limits in buttercream.  Winking smile

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As always, our family is too generous and Angel and her doll/”daughter” Jenny will be very well dressed this summer!  [Matching Dolly & me clothes.]

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Can you tell from the smiles they had orange pop and/or pulled pork for dinner?

 

Scooter slept through the first half of the party and was EXTREMELY surprised to see a house full of people when she woke up!  Oh my.  She is too cute I think!! ♥

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Does she look proud, or what???

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These boys weren’t quite able to come IN for cake…
mud + the creek + trees = dessert on the porch.

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Boy… do I hope spring is really here.  It was so nice to sit on the porch for a while!

 

 

 

 

 

Her “friend” party is Friday night, and her real birthday is Saturday. 

Can you say, “Cake?”

They almost pull this off!

Prizes from Pizza Hut.
Three of the kids picked them out.
As I looked in my rear-view window on the drive home it made me chuckle.  They’d forgotten they had them on, I think.  And just their plain-old-looking-around-selves looked crazy-funny to Mommy.
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