Celebrating Lily

Happy Birthday, Lily!

October was a special month for Lily--she turned six years old! Lily is such a funny girl. She asks questions and wants to learn about the world around her. She started kindergarten this year and loves her teacher, Mrs. Skipper. She loves to play with friends. She is a good sister and plays especially well with Zach. She has a great smile. She loves to collect living pets: frogs, toads, lizards, etc.

Her birthday landed on a saturday this year. We gave her a few options to pick from for birthday activities and she chose "the butterfly fest and a party with Lizzie and Rachel and Kensie and Cade and the Olsen's". So that's what we did!

After breakfast she unwrapped a Lego friends set and some training wheels (to go with the bike we were kindly given from a friend a month or so ago). We had been hoping she could just start riding the two wheel bike, but she isn't quite to that point yet. So new training wheels were in order, and they work great. After breakfast we all went for a family bike ride around the neighborhood--it is so fun to have everyone on wheels! Then we headed to the museum for the annual Butterfly Fest (more to come about that in another post).

We had a quiet afternoon at home while the kids played with Lily's new toys. Dinner was Lily's pick of hamburgers, grilled by Jared. We invited three families (the Cricchios, the Olsens, and the Becks) to join us for dessert and to celebrate Lily. We had a good crowd of 10 kids and 7 adults. The kids mostly played hide and seek in various ways. The adults had a nice time chatting, with an exciting BYU game in the background (Yay! BYU won!). We decided to do something a little less traditional for dessert and served root beer floats. Friday I made a Texas sheet cake and took it to school to share with Lily's kindergarten class, so we also had a little bit of cake. It was a nice celebration.

Blow out your candles!

We were having so much fun, that we neglected to take very many pictures. So Jared took Lily out for a special birthday photo shoot.

Lily smashed her finger in the door one morning before school. Ouch!!!

We love you, Lily! We are so glad you are in our family.