My Birthday Girl

Maryn is 11 today!! Can you believe it?!? It seems so surreal sometimes. She's past a decade now, and as my Mom keeps reminding me, we're on the downward slope in terms of our time with her before she gets her wings and fly, flies away. We've got 7 years left...but let's not dwell on that today...no, no. Instead let's celebrate Maryn Elizabeth...our sparkly braces and glasses wearing pre-teen girl who is growing before our very eyes!!

We had a birthday party for Maryn on Saturday at our house. It was a friend party that included all of Maryn's favorites: Casey's cheese pizza for lunch, drawing self portraits, playing Pictionary, shaking their booties to "Just Dance", watching a movie, and making ice cream sundaes. I think (and hope) they all had a good time. Maryn chose to give them all one of her new favorite smelly lotion scents from Bath & Body, as well as a yummy flavor of chapstick, some cute hair bands, and her favorite candy: M&M's and a candy cane in their treat bags. (Remember when she called them "any-ems"?!?)











Tonight after school, we'll take her out to dinner at her favorite place and give her presents from the fam. Items on her wish list included makeup (sorry, not gonna happen for another year), perfume, books, art stuff, and a Kindle. We'll see if she was a good girl this year...stay tuned!