Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush had a special dinner with just their parents for the first time in “ten years” while celebrating their mother’s birthday.
The 41-year-old twin sisters flew to their home state of Texas without their husbands and children for a promotion there new children’s book, Love Comes First, out Tuesday.
Jenna and Barbara made sure to spend some quality time with their parents, former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, who turned 77 on Saturday.
The Today host took to Instagram on Sunday – the day of her parents’ 46th wedding anniversary – to post sweet photos of them having dinner together as a family of four.
Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush had dinner with just their parents – George W. and Laura Bush – for the first time in ‘ten years’ this weekend
The Bushes celebrated the former first lady’s 77th birthday and their 46th wedding anniversary while their daughters were back in their home state of Texas.
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Before their family dinner, Jenna and Barbara joined their mother for a meet-and-greet at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas to promote their new book Love Comes First.
Jenna shared a photo of herself and Barbara beaming as they sat across from their mom and dad, as well as a photo of their parents sitting next to each other.
‘Happy birthday to our dear mother! (We are) so happy that the four of us can spend the night! We love you so much! @laurawbush AND the happiest 46 years for our parents. I love you both!’ she wrote in the caption.
Jenna recounted the memorable moment on the Today show on Monday while chatting with her cohost Hoda Kotb about her whirlwind book tour in Texas, saying they made five stops in just three days.
“The four of us went out to dinner and what we realized is that I don’t think the four of us have been together in 20 years,” she explained.
“That’s an exaggeration,” she corrected herself. “But let’s say a decade, because I’ve had a husband for a long time, we’ve had children for ten years, Barbara has boyfriends and husbands, and so on and so forth.”
Hoda, 59, immediately laughed and wanted to know what she meant by “et cetera et cetera,” and Jenna clarified that Barbara had a few boyfriends before marrying her husband, Craig Coyne.
Barbara and Craig have a daughter, Cora Georgia, who turned two on September 27.
Meanwhile, Jenna and her husband of 15 years, Henry Hager, are parents to three children: Mila, ten, Poppy, eight, and Hal, four.
“There was something that was really special, just being the four of us,” Jenna said of their dinner on the Today show Monday
Jenna told her cohost Hoda Kotb that their dad was watching a football game while their mom opened presents after dinner and said they were in bed at 8:45 p.m.
Jenna and Barbara made five stops in three days on their whirlwind book tour of Texas
“There was something really special about it, just being the four of us,” the former first daughter said of their dinner.
“We had a great time and then we all went to bed,” she added. ‘My father was watching a football match and my mother was opening her presents. And then we went to bed at 8:45 am.
Anyway, it was so much fun.”
She also noted that they had a lot of queso – her favorite food – in Texas.
Before their family dinner, Jenna and Barbara joined their mother for a meet-and-greet at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas to promote their book.
The twins brought their mom a chocolate cake at the event, and in a video shared to Instagram, they can be seen singing “Happy Birthday” to her.
“Happiest birthday to Ms. @laurawbush, from all of us with love!” read the caption. “At today’s Love Comes First event with Jenna and Barbara, the event’s first guests joined the first daughters to celebrate their mothers.”
The Bush twins also ended up dining with Chip and Joanna Gaines while visiting their new boutique hotel, Hotel 1928, in Waco, Texas.
Jenna and Barbara were eating at the hotel’s restaurant, Bertie’s on the Rooftop, when the Fixer Upper stars joined them
Barbara and her husband, Craig Coyne, have a daughter, Cora Georgia, who turned two on September 27
Jenna and her husband of 15 years, Henry Hager, are parents to three children: Mila, ten, Poppy, eight, and Hal, four
The former first lady shared a photo of herself with her daughters after they brought her cake, writing, “My birthday was made all the more special by a visit from our girls!”
The Bush twins also ended up dining with Chip and Joanna Gaines while visiting their new boutique hotel, Hotel 1928, in Waco, Texas.
They were eating at the hotel’s restaurant, Bertie’s on the Rooftop, when the Fixer Upper stars joined them.
Joanna posted a photo of them together on her Instagram Stories and wrote: “Had a lovely dinner last night at Bertie’s on the roof in @thehotel1928 with these cuties.”
Jenna reposted the snapshot to her own Stories, adding, “Go to @thehotel1928!!!’
The Today star recalled how the Gaineses surprised them during Monday’s show, telling Hoda they “had the most fun.”
This month is already shaping up to be a special one for the Bush twins, who will celebrate their 42nd birthday on November 25.