Oh my, oh my…Annabelle is ten! She woke up this morning and it felt as though she grew up over night. She just seemed older. She seemed a bit more mature. 

Although it’s going way too fast I know that growing older is a gift. Watching my babies turn into these beautiful, amazing young woman is not something that I take for granted. 

Annabelle is confident, fierce, passionate, beautiful, smart, funny and I absolutely adore her. She is my buddy and I really do enjoy spending time with her. The one on one time I have with her is so valuable, because she loves to share stories and make me laugh, 

I can’t imagine a life without this amazing child and she deserves the happiest 10th birthday!

Cake for breakfast. A Paz tradition. 

This girl loves her emojis and specificially requested the “poop” emoji piece for breakfast. 

(what’s with kids and that poop emoji? gross!)

singing happy birthday to the 10 year old!

Present time. This girl is so happy to be double digits. 

After much deliberation and many, many conversations Annabelle’s birthday wish came true and she received a phone. We have survived the first day and although she is a bit obsessed right now she was very responsible and respectful with it. 

Gwyneth gave her sister a new phone case

We were sad to say goodbye to the California cousins today. We dropped them at the airport after lunch and no one was happy about it. We had a great visit and of course, are already planning our next trip to see them. 

We picked up a few of the girls’ friends and headed to The Bay.  That wasn’t our original plan, but due to some afternoon rain showers and maintenance issues with our neighborhood pool Annabelle decided The Bay was our best bet. We don’t go very often and the girls absolutely loved all the slides.

I tell ya, this girl is out little fish!

Over and over and over and over….they couldn’t get enough of the slides! 

Annabelle requested BBQ for dinner so we hit Lulus in Louisville and then finished the evening with ice cream from Sweet Cow. It was a busy, busy day and Annabelle loved every minute of it. 

Happy birthday to our amazing 10 year old! 

How lucky we are to get to  be  your family and celebrate this day with you.