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Gracie turns 10 today! We are having a few of her friends over tomorrow to go skating with her, but we celebrated with a school holiday and lots of fun today. She wanted to go on a bike ride and have the whole day to spend playing with her brother (they are major buds lately). The sparkler in the cake was a bit scary by the way.
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Unfortunately her cake was a bit of a train wreck. It seems I've been plagued with several major culinary disasters lately - but this one literally takes the cake. The cake (not pictured) looked nice, your average round 2 tiered cake with one tier slightly smaller, chocolate frosting with Sixlets decorating it as requested by the birthday girl. Just before supper I reached into an upper cabinet and a jar came crashing down onto the cake shattering the glass cake stand it was on and sending glass everywhere. What a MESS! My husband, the hero as always, jumps into action to handle messes so I ran to HEB to pick up a store-bought cake. So, this photo is cake #2.
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She talked us into letting her open her presents the night before her birthday. She was torn - she wanted Daddy to be there for present opening, but didn't want to wait until evening to open them (dad leaves too early to be here for A.M. present opening).
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She got a pogo stick which she has LOVED, a skateboard, and some awesome red rubber boots, and a few other things.
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Since there were no actual presents on her birthday, we went overboard with tons of decorations all over the house.
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We went to Bahama Bucks for their awesome root beer snowcones, went to the library, went for a bike ride, and she spent a birthday gift card from her great-grandma.
Happy Birthday, Gracie Pearl! I can't believe you're 10!
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