Can you believe it, our Eliza is TEN years old!

Of course we had a birthday party this past Sunday to celebrate that fact!

She was SUPER excited and planned the meal – fish tacos with all the fixings, and chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and berries.

PERFECT menu!!

I made the cakes late on Saturday night – and this is what you get when it is not Addie Mae doing the cake baking, ha, ha!

Lane, Tate and even Eliza decorated for the party on Sunday morning before church.

It was cute!

And so fun to watch them work together!!

I set the coffee maker before we left for church too, and we were excited to try this coffee Addie Mae brought home from Hershey, Pennsylvania.

After church our favorites followed us home and we shared that delicious meal for lunch!

After lunch it was time for Eliza to open her gifts!

Several weeks before her birthday I had asked her what she would enjoy receiving.

She said, “Oh, that’s easy! A new puppy.”

I told her that wasn’t going to happen and to think of something else.

To which she said, “No problem! A new horse then.”

Oh boy.

She is so cute though!!

Well, we found some gifts for our animal loving girl anyway, and she loved everything!

Addie Mae frosted and fixed up the cakes when we got home from church.

Saved me, she did.

Eliza loved her little personal cake!

I had made Magnolia’s Chocolate Cola Cake – and it is delicious!!

We spent the rest of the day and evening together and IT WAS THE BEST!!

Here they are all drawing on their writing tablets – such a cute photo of life here!!

You know I get sappy around birthdays, right?

Well, I do.

Especially our two youngest – there is just so much emotion attached to their birthdays.

Our first birthday with Eliza was when she turned three because she came home when she was two years and four months old.

What a JOY to celebrate our sweet girl!!

Eliza has come SO far and it is so wonderful to be able to watch her learn and grow.

Well, both of my babies are now ten – so if you will excuse me I need to go and have a good cry!!

Happy, happy birthday, Eliza Claire!!!

WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!