Happy Birthday Ashley!

My baby turned 8 yesterday! I can't believe she is already 8, it seems like she was born yesterday. We started out with her friends party on Saturday. She had four friends over. I had five seven year olds, Kami, and Kaite at one time. That is a lot of GIRL! They had fun playing twister.

Eating pizza

Watching Barbie in a Mermaid Tale and dancing in the living room.

Eating cake and ice cream

She wanted a volcano cake this year, easiest cake ever!
Opening presents

Cali and Ashley

Lily and Ashley

Shelby and Ashley

Abby and Ashley

They had a ton of fun and were very noisy, but I will still take girls over boys any day!
Sunday Ash woke up really early ready to open presents.

New fairy books

A rock book, she loves rocks and has quite the collection

A CTR necklace

New scriptures with her name on them

And her big present this year was a purple MP3 player

For breakfast we had french toast and english muffins, her choice.

We then headed off to church. After church we had her choice of dinner- pesto pork chops with angel hair pasta and peaches. Then all the family came over for cake and ice cream. We really got the cake steaming this time (hot water) but it did put the candles out.

Then present time

poor Chantelle, yesterday was her due date

Marianne was in charge of my camera, so I have lots of these pics. I don't have any idea what Kaite has in her mouth.

Mahon and Cindy

Missy and Briant being goofy

The gorgeous necklace and jewelry box Chris and Chantelle gave her.

Lip gloss and makeup

Thanks to all those who made her birthday special! I am so proud of Ashley. Ky and I were talking the other day about her and she is just amazing. She is such a wonderful person. She has high standards and values. She is the best friend and sister ever! She is so thoughtful and nice to everyone. She is such a good example to all of us, especially me. I don't think I can name all the wonderful things about her, but you can see it just by spending a little time with her. Her teacher told Ky what a wonderful girl she was and that she is such "a good role model for the rest of the class" she said this after the third day of school. I don't think I could be any more proud of her. Happy Birthday Ashley we love you!

Oh and Ashley is now in the gifted and talented program at school! Way to go Ash!

Bliss

I sit here listening to the quiet of my children sitting at the table coloring, but the thing I enjoy the most is the smell. I can smell the fresh rain mixed with the wonderful scent of cake cooking. I am baking all the cakes for Ashley's birthday, so for the day my house we be delightfully yummy. It is ugly gloomy gray outside, but my house is cozy and I feel like wrapping in a blanket and sipping hot cocoa all day. However, my priority today is making all her cakes so I can freeze them tonight and shape them tomorrow. Oh how I have fallen for that blond haired blue-eyed beauty. I would do anything for her, and for her two sisters who have the same effect on me. Marianne called me "the ultimate mom" the other day, something about all the work I was doing for Ash's birthday and then asked me if I "will still go to all this trouble when they are seventeen and don't want it"? My response "of course" truth be told they have me wrapped around their fingers and I would do ANYTHING for them, I think they know it too! For today I am enjoying my own piece of bliss.

More Boating

So, we took what we think will be our last boating trip for the year yesterday. We had tons of fun and the weather was awesome, I am sporting quite the burn to prove it! Here are the pics.

Marianne on the wakeboard

George on the wakeboard, I didn't get Ky on the board and nobody got me attempting the board.

Ky wearing Marianne's sunglasses, doesn't he look pretty!

The girls

Ash on the tube, keeping her feet out of the water so the piranhas don't bite her toes!

Me and Kami on the tubeMar and Kami
Kaite on the tube

Kaite and Ash on the tube together
Marianne and George on the tube, they had quite the wild ride!
George on the tube, he ended up with a bloody nose after this hit.
Marianne and Kaite on the tube

Marianne on the tube
And Marianne wiping out!
The scary snake we saw in the water.

George on the slalom. He got up and skied for the first time.
Ky on the slalom, and showing some leg!

We had a fun day. I wish I could have gotten up on the wakeboard, the water was so cold and rough. The girls had so much fun and I look forward to hitting the water next year, and if the weather is nice maybe one more time this year! George and Kyle both had the worst wipe outs of the day, we are all feeling them today!