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Happy Birthday to me!

Another year has come and gone -- my first full year as a mommy!  Danny took my parents and I out to Tortugas, a Caribbean restaurant I had wanted to try for months.  Here's a picture of us where we ate in the courtyard, but the building you see is actually the post office.  Whoops.  Dan also made me a birthday cake that we could eat with ice cream on my actual birthday (a Sunday).  You'll notice in both of these pictures I actually get to hold Kaelah.  She's turned into a real full throttle momma's girl lately.  Dan blames it on her new favorite library book ("Dog" is still her favorite all-time) called "Baby Happy, Baby Sad."  In the book the Dad is the one that puts the baby to sleep (just like Dan does) and it says, "Baby Sad."  Of course, it also says "Baby Happy" when the dad gets the baby out of the crib in the morning....

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Anonymous said…
Happy Birthday!!! How was Tortugas? You have such a darling family!
At first I didn't notice the two on the cake, just the eight. And I thought "How funny, I guess you just use whatever candles you have lying around." Then I noticed the two. Happy Birthday.
Stephanie said…
Wait a couple months and then she'll be a Daddy's girl. They go back and forth so often.
Sarah said…
Tortugas was great, Abbie! I highly recommend it, but save it for a special occasion. It was the first time I've ever seen Dan be the one to say 'no' to dessert offerings b/c he was scared of the bill. lol.

And yes, we totally use whatever is laying around -- that's why the #s don't match. (:
Maegan said…
Cute cake. Hopefully you had a super fun birthday.
Reggs said…
Happy Birthday!! I adore you, and I'm so glad you were born. By the way, I LOVE kaelah's gymboree tulip outfit!! Give that little girl lots of kissies from me.
I swear, she's starting to look like you. :D

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