Christen's 10th Birthday

My baby is 10! She had her birthday on Feb 25th. I cant believe it. She is such a good friend, student, beginning violin student and active participant in life.

Happy 9th Birthday Christen!

Christen and her friends - she decided that she wanted ice cream sundaes instaed of a cake this year - although Denise ended us sharing some of her cake on their actual birthday. We took
the girls bowling and they had a great time. On the actual day of her birthday - the 25th I got her out of school just a bit early and got a drink at Sonic. Then we went home and Grandma and Grandpa were waiting there for her. They gave her a musical jewelry box and jewelry - which she LOVES. Speaking of jewelry, she has a boy that is a friend from school who actually gave her some jewelery for her birthday. I wasn't quite sure what to think but I guess it is fairly harmless.

Later in the evening we met our friends, Dave and Denise at Red Robin for dinner. This has become a tradition. Denise has the same birthday, which makes it extra fun!

I was relly happy that she had a great birthday and a great time with her friends, but i was also a little sad that my little girl is growing up!! It seems ok for the boys to get older - but not her!! SIGH!!

Just today she and I had a special day together. Todd and the boys were at the scout Klonderee (post to come) so we went shopping, got lunch, and then went to the play "Annie" that some of our friends were in. It was nice.

Christen's birthday

Christen is 8!

Christen had her 8th birthday on Feb 25th. I cant believe that my baby is 8! Ive been pretty contimplative lately and excited too for her and her baptism and all. She is so adorable and I am so grateful to have her! We kind of spread out her birthday for the week because we had alot going on. Gma C would have been here to celebrate too but Brandon had the flu so she will come in on Wed the 4th. (Brandon is fine now but didnt want to give that to Gma)



Anyhow, she had a great week of celebrating with a new Wii game - Raving Rabbids, T- shirt blanket (long overdue) scriptures (from Gma and Gpa E) scripture case, some beads for necklaces and a little bday $. we also went out to Red Robin the Monday before.

8 things I love about Christen;

1) She can be such a tomboy and then the next minute be a girly girl.

2) She is so cute! I love her nickname - Kissy - from Chris - Chrissy - Kissy and sometimes Kiss Kiss

3) She is a great friend.

4) She is a great student.

5) She is usually very laid back and doesnt take things too seriously.

6) She is very athletic and full of energy

7) She is very appeciative.

8) She is a girl - and she is all mine!!

This all makes up for the fact that her room is horribly messy 95% of the time - worse than the boys!

I love you Kissy!

My baby is 7!!

...................................................................................Christen's 7th birthday is today! I cant believe it! She is so grown up, and yet still loves to be cuddled and doesn't seem to mind when I call her my baby.

We do friend birthday parties every other year and this was her year. I told her that if we did one at the house rather than going somewhere she could invite more friends. And invite she did! Between church, school and dance class we had 14 little girls total on this past Saturday afternoon. We had it pretty organized with 3 different stations with Todd and the boys both helping me - ALOT!! It was fun though.

I made a butterfly cake from an idea in the Family Fun magazine and it turned out pretty cute even though we decided it looked better upside down from the original layout. We just moved the twizzler antennaes.

She also got a bike for her birthday, which she was thrilled about.