Jesikah's 12th Birthday

We let Jesikah open a couple of presents before school on her birthday. The gifts both had clothes in them, so she got some options of what to wear to school. She appreciates getting clothes much more now that she pays half of all her clothes. She really liked them...some of those were ones we hid away while we were school shopping that she wanted but couldn't afford.  We didn't get pictures of the first gifts, but she is wearing one of the outfits in her pictures below.  We let her open the rest of her presents when she got home from school so she'd have the rest of the evening to enjoy them.

Here she is after school getting ready to open her presents.  The flowers in the background are my anniversary flowers from the day before.

A shot of the family

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First present is from Jarem...he picked it out and paid for it

Hugs

Fluffy stuff and a paint by number dolphin picture

Eric is trying to conjure up "real" smiles

The Harry Potter Wii game years 1-4 (Jesikah loves Harry Potter)

A few make-up items in a cute little case.  At 12, we told her she could start to wear a little make-up but not enough to be noticable.  She's done a good job.

Alex giving his typical mischevious look

More clothes

Another cute shirt...one of Eric and my favorites

A 1-oz silver coin

A close-up...as you can see, it says Happy Birthday.  Jesikah is collecting these type of coins.  She and Tessa both got a tooth fairy one recently too.

She also got a fun food set from American Girl and some favorite littlest pet shops.

We didn't do much more celebrating this day because Eric and I headed to Nashville to celebrate our anniversary (another post).  However, her birthday party was the following day, so she really got 3 days of birthday fun!