February 5, 2014

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our sweet baby girl is twenty six today and instead of celebrating with her, we're missing her like crazy. BUT in a "way to go and grab life by the horns" good way. she's been in australia since august and in may we'll be welcoming her back home with our arms wide open.

she actually celebrated her birthday yesterday, since she's a day of head of us, so the "wishes, glitter throwing and party hat wearing" fun has lasted for forty eight hours.

to say that we're proud of her would be such an understatement. she is living, loving, learning and fully embracing her independence in another country and all we know for sure is that after a life experience like this, she can do anything. well actually, she's always shown us that she can do whatever she puts her mind to, but now she can fly. her wings have grown above and beyond anything we ever imagined for her and believe me, we have really big imaginations.

so here's to you sweet girl. we love you more than you'll ever really know…which exceeds {by leaps and bounds} how much we miss you and man, we miss you soooooooo much!!!






18 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday to your sweet girl and wow what an opportunity...memories to last a life time!

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  2. Happy, happy birthday to your baby girl! It's amazing just how well these little birdies can fly when we give them the opportunity.

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  3. Giving them wings is the hardest thing a parent has to do for a child but the most worthy.....Happy Birthday to your sweet girl....

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  4. Happy birthday to all of you! xo

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  5. Happy Birthday to your sweet daughter.
    I just know she is growing, but a parents
    heart wants to hold them close. So glad
    she will be traveling home in May.

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  6. What a delightful daughter you must have. Hope her birthday was a truly special day.

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  7. Sounds like you've done an excellent job as a mom! Beautiful photo too, by the way!

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  8. She sounds like quite a woman -- so happy birthday to you, and congratulations to two proud parents who obviously did their work well.

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  9. I love the photo.
    Congratulations to you on your sweet daughter.

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  10. love the photo! send on greetings from your blog readers (dare I say friends?). you and Hubby have obviously laid great groundwork for your daughter to go that far! I have a granddaughter who'll be 26 next month. :)

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  11. How wonderful. Great post of pride n joy. Our son (in Japan) will be 27 in June, so they are very close in age and with common lifestyles. I echo many of your sentiments. I'm happy that you'll get to see her very soon. Lots of big singin-dancin wishes to her on this day.

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  12. Awwww! Happy Birthday to baby girl!!

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  13. i was thinking just yesterday that when the day comes when my little ones leave home, it is going to be sooo quiet and i will miss them so much. not in a hurry for that to happen. happy birthday to your little girl.

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  14. Happy Birthday to your much loved and beautiful daughter!

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  15. Happy Birthday!!!!....... we'd all love an update on what life is like down under!

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  16. How proud you must be to have raised such a strong independent daughter - traveling all that way. Hopefully she is as great of a photographer as you are!

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  17. I just found your blog and quite a coincidence that our 25 year old son is just leaving Australia and coming home. We haven't seen him since August (he works on a cruise ship). We too are proud of the person he has become but boy do I miss him.

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  18. I know you miss your daughter....it's normal for us moms to miss our children. Happy Birthday to "her" and wishing her well!

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