BDay

As hard to believe as it is, we now officially have a four year old. She is such a joy to be around and we feel blessed everyday to get to have her in our family. We try to make birthdays a big day in our family and the anticipation this year started months ago. She counted down from Halloween to Thanksgiving then Christmas then my birthday! So in the morning we went to get her picture taken at Sears. She really likes to have her picture taken so, despite the sloooooow picture taking lady and Taryn bee lining it the the door several times, she had fun. And for those of you who have seen the picture no she is not wearing lipstick. She just has really red lips sometimes. We are not a Jon Benet Ramsey family...Then we hurried to Wal-Mart to ride Dumbo as many times as she wanted. I offered this open endedly because I figured the excitement of not going anywhere would wear off after a minute or two. No such luck. After going through at least twelve dollars (I lost count after that) and breaking the dumbo (he hadn't seen that much action for awhile from the looks of him) and moving on to the Lion King guy I convinced her that we needed to go home so Taryn could take a nap. After nap time we made fruit loop necklaces and had the Thompsons and Grandmas over for a BBQ. Cami wanted Ravioli so she had that while everyone else got burgers. Then we had a princess birthday cake and opened presents. She got her first big girl bike (with training wheels) and tested it out in the kitchen immediately. The next day she took it for a road test and did really well. She also was obviously into the accessories that came with the bike. It is way more exciting to get a bike for a January birthday when you live in St George rather than Michigan.

Hold on tight! He might take off.

Cami loving her new friend.

Lookin' Good Cami! Lookin' Good!
It was really tricky to pedal without accidentally using the pedal breaks. She is still working on this.
Thumbs up for a bike ride and Hannah Flat Stanley.