Chloe's Actual Birthday

We celebrated Chloe's birthday as a family...with presents and lunch at Chili's (my kids love that place, for some reason)

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Levi....
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 Caleb picked out these for Chloe (it was so sweet: he asked me to take him to get her a gift...what a great brother!)

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