Birthday Number TEN

Ok everyone... it's about to get real.  Today Simone turned 10 years old!  I won't lie -- I'm having a tough time with this one.  It gets harder every day to think of her as a little kid anymore.  I'm not sure how we got to this point so fast, but I suppose we have a decade of some pretty awesome memories to show for it.

She has asked to have her birthday celebration up in PA at a future point, but tonight we marked the occasion of her actual birthday with a surprise dinner and ice cream with a few of her close friends.  They had such a good time, and as I watched and listened to their little tween conversation as they sat and at blizzards at DQ, I couldn't help but think of just how very few years of such sweet outings remain.  No fear, we will make the most of them all!!

At birthday dinner.  The girls unanimously decided on Thai.

A quick pose near the pumpkins after dinner. 

Ice cream for dessert!

End of the night selfie.

The last two shots are from yesterday when mommy and Simone went for an after school snack and then dessert to celebrate her very last day of being 9 years old.  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIMONE!! 

Mommy and daddy love you more than you will ever know!

(hang on tight for the next decade!)