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| This is Marisa on her first birthday...she had been home from China for one month. |
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| Here's our beauty a year later. Wow, it's amazing that we've been blessed with a whole year together. Time flies! |
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| I made cupcakes this year for Marisa's big day...tried out an idea I saw on Pinterest. |
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| All our plans to have a special outing fell through, so we went home and had cupcakes. Everyone was happy with that idea. |
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| Later in the day, Aunt Kendra, Aunt Katie, and cousin Haley came over to celebrate with us. We played hide and seek, had an early Easter egg hunt, and just had a plain old good time together. |
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| Let the gift opening begin!!! Marisa got a Hello Kitty art set, very cute. She also got a big girl cup to drink out of (no sippy lid)...she loves it. |
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| More gifts: her very first twirly skirt and a lovely Easter dress. Such fun! Of course we had a fashion show and she tried them both on. |
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| The kids got to make their own pizzas from Papa Murphy's. |
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| Thank you to Aunt Katie for taking all the photos! (I'm sorry we didn't get one with you in it...next time!) |
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| The next day, we partied some more as it was Marisa's actual birthday. She opened presents from us after breakfast. |
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| I love the look of concentration on her little face as she tries to open this. She got some books, clothes, and more play things for her little kitchen. |
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| After lunch, we had more cupcakes...we've had a lot of cupcakes in the past three days! |
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| Marisa is our precious, funny, industrious, creative, brilliant and spunky daughter! We are so thankful to have her in our lives. |
