Marie started her second decade with the opportunity to be part of the praise team at church.  It meant an early morning, and an abbreviation to our normal birthday festivities, but it was pretty cool. 

(It also meant running around because the dress she wanted to wear was no where to be found, and the other two options both needed ironing.  We got one ironed, but then realized the first-choice dress was likely AT the church, having been quickly discarded on church-picnic-day for play clothes.  Sure enough, once she got there I found the dress crumpled in a Wegman’s bag in the coat room.  I dashed to my mother’s house, down the street, to iron it.  So she got to wear dress A, after all.  And that – friends- is my life in the NUT shell.)

It was a cool, drippy day, like most of summer 2014, so we just hung around the house.  Tabitha and Marie did some face painting.

For dinner we had pasta Alfredo, and Ba, Poppy, Nan, & Nene joined us. 

Gifts were fun, as always…

The boys bought her Wall•E Wii game.

Tab did some fancy artwork.

And bestowed upon her the movie, “Cinderella.”  The kids had never seen it, and I had not seen it in well over 30 (35?) years.  Turns out – it is a FABULOUS movie!  Wish I’d watched it long ago!

Ba took her out to lunch a few days prior for some one-on-one birthday fun. 

Nan and Nene got together to give her a nice red camera.

Nan also got her a charm bracelet with lots of charms from our vacation.

Dad and Mama didn’t give her any gifts as she was heading to camp the following week.  Well – we HAD bought her a bunch of art supplies and a carrier for them… but we forgot them!!  Daddy called me the next day to remind me, and we did give her that.  (Welcome to Stacy’s brain.)

But – I DID deliver on the cherry crumble pie.  It was amazing.

Just like my beautiful birthday girl.  ♥