Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Mimi

Happy 4th Birthday to our Maren! This is actually a week late, but such is my life right now. This whole month will be spent playing catch up. Maren wanted a treasure chest cake. I got the idea from my friend Rachel. I was a little tired of princess cakes and so I spent a few weeks trying to convince one of the girls to have this cool pirate cake. In the end the necklaces and candy did most of the convincing.

Maren always seems older to me than she is. She has always played with older kids and kept up just fine. She loves to laugh and make other people laugh. We regularly find toy spiders and snakes under our pillows at night. She is very helpful to me and likes to do secret service for people in the family. She loves to hold and help take care of Grant, build castles with Ryan, play "mom" with Avery, wrestle with Dad and read books with Mom. Maren is such a fun part of our family.



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7 comments:

Courtney said...

Such a cutie pie! I love all the past b-day pics. It's fun to see how kids grow and change. Happy Birthday!

Rachel said...

Such a fun birthday!!! And that cake looks rockin', you did such a good job on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Catherine said...

So sweet! I can't believe she's that old! I love the "pictures through the years". So cute!

Jessa said...

What a cool cake!!

Megan said...

I love the cake, we made it for Lindsey's birthday a couple years ago, but yours looks much better than mine did!
I didn't cut the cake the right way so we had to prop the top open with the treasure...

Grampy and Grandma Dot said...

You're still our favorite red head, Maren! Love ya!

Red Bed Head said...

My Avery... Wow are those real candy necklaces?