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Jenna Bush Hager and the former first family — sister Barbara Pierce Bush, mother Laura Bush and father and former President George W. Bush — recently spent time together for the first time in “a decade.”
On Sunday, Hager shared photos on Instagram from the family dinner celebrating the matriarch’s 77th birthday.
“It was just the four of us going to dinner, and we realized: I don’t think we’ve only been the four of us in…let’s say a decade,” Hager told co-host Hoda Kotb on Monday’s episode of “Today With Hoda & Jenna.” “. The family is busy, she said, as Hager, 41, is a mother of three and twin sister Barbara has a 2-year-old daughter with husband Craig Coyne, whom she married in 2018.
“It was really special being just the four of us,” she added. “No distractions – we had the best time. And then we all went to bed. My father was watching some football game and my mother was opening her presents. And then we went to bed at 8:45.”
“Happy birthday to our dear mom!” Hager captioned her Sunday post with the family of four sitting together at a restaurant table. She added that she was “so happy to spend the night with the four of you!”
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The family time came as Hager and her sister toured Texas for their latest children’s book, “Love Comes First.”
The former first lady was surprised with a birthday cake and a crowd singing “Happy Birthday” to her during her daughters’ tour stop at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. In her own Instagram post on Sunday, Laura Bush wrote: “My birthday was made extra special by a visit from our girls!”
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