Adell's birthday has been overshadowed by Thanksgiving a few times in her life. Sometimes we are traveling home, sometimes her birthday is on the same day as Thanksgiving. This year her birthday was on a Saturday and we wanted to make it special.
Adell started the day getting her hair cut and dyed by Lorien. No before and after pictures but it turned out cute. I think she looks like Joan Jett.
We took a family hike with everyone and enjoyed the foliage.
Wyatt found a petrified tree. He continues to collect rocks everywhere we go.
For dinner, Adell wanted sushi. We went to Pacific Catch and had a delicious meal!
Sunday morning we celebrated Oliver's first birthday! Technically his birthday is on Wednesday the 29th but we had him for the Thanksgiving weekend. He was not super impressed with the toys we got him but he loved playing with the unplugged phone cord and wrapping paper!
One more note about Adell and her birthday. Way back in 2008 we were trying to figure out if we were going to have more kids. We had three and I was feeling pretty overwhelmed all the time. But in our heart of hearts we felt like our family was not complete. I had a long list of things that needed to happen before we could have a fourth child.
One of our closest family friends, the Lundts, had their third child and she was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy. After they found out about her diagnosis Will felt like it was time for us to have another baby. Little did he know, due to a miscalculation on my part, we were already pregnant. Adell was born in November of that year.
Sadly, the Lundts daughter (Lucy) passed away a week ago. Her funeral was on Adell's birthday. Because we already had plans we didn't make the trip over to the other side of the bay but I watched it on zoom. It was hard and very sad but also so sweet. What an incredible human Lucy was.
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