Little Dancin' Baby/Super Loving Sisters

One of the things Kinsey got for her birthday was this cute leotard. She absolutely LOVES to dance with Erica and Natty. Erica just begged me to buy this for Little Kins. Kinsey had to have it on as soon as she took it out of the bag, and started dancing!

Here is her 'shake-a-butt' dance.

I just love how she is looking at Natty in this photo!

'ballerina pose'

'spin around'

I just love how excited she is to dance! It really helps to have two wonderful big sisters to teach her!

That brings me to the 'loving sisters' part of the post. First, Natty is always willing to put on a CD and dance away with Kinsey! She is super tender-hearted, and doesn't like to see anyone left out because she gets her feelings hurt when it happens to her! Next I just have to say how loving and un-selfish Erica is. In our family, Daddy takes the kids shopping for their birthdays. It's just one way for each child to have a one-on-one special day with Dad. So, Daddy took Erica yesterday for her Birthday Shopping Day. She came back with something for each of her brothers and sisters!!! This is her own special day, her own birthday money, and we expect her to spend it on herself! I was just so touched by her kindness!

She is so much like me when it comes to expressing loving feelings! I have always had a hard time trying to tell those that I love the most that I truly love them. She 's the same way, and this was her way of saying 'I love you' to her siblings. Thank you, Erica, for being such a great example to me! I love you! (see, it's really easy to type it!)

Birthday Party for Our Girls

Time just flies by! I can hardly believe that my little Erica is already twelve years old! She's just not all that 'little' anymore. She is turning into such a beautiful young lady! We had a fun party for her and her sister, Kinsey, last night. Thanks to all who came!

Erica was excited about getting the DVD "Up", and everything else she got. I'm trying to get her to act more excited about receiving gifts. She just kind of opens a gift, looks at it, and then sets it aside and reaches for the next one! She really does like every gift she got last night!!

And I really can't believe that my 'baby' is two!! She is such a 'corker' as Grandma Gull puts it! She is so cute, and I think that is the only thing that keeps her alive! She loves to start fights with her brother, Jason, and EVERYTHING is HERS!
This is the only picture I could get of Kinsey that wasn't ugly! She is looking at her aunts, not wanting to even think about cracking a smile. This is a lot better than....

THIS!! This is the face she pulled when I asked her to smile! What is this?! She really knows how to pull some ugly faces!

Kinsey picked out the 'horsey' cupcakes. I have had so much fun making these cute cupcakes for my kids' birthdays!

I'm going to be taking pictures of the girls in all of the stinkin' cute outfits they got last night, and posting them here in the next week or so. Stay tuned!

Erica's "friend" Birthday Party!

On Saturday, we had a birthday party for Erica and her friends. She had such a fun time, and I'm grateful for the good friends she has! She was very happy with all of the gifts from everyone, as you can tell from the photos:

Of course, I had to make some really fun cupcakes. She wanted the "fat cats" cupcakes. Here's how they turned out:

Close up of the cute kittys.

Erica has been such a great daughter. She is mostly happy, a great artist, a good dancer, a wonderful babysitter, and fun friend to her two sisters and two brothers. She is smart, loves to read, and is downright beautiful (even if I do say so myself!) We love you Erica!

Today was her last Sunday in Primary! She'll be going into Young Women next week! It just sneaks up on me too fast!

Have you ever seen something like this???

Daniel cut open a red bell pepper today, and this is what the inside looked like:
WHAT THE HECK!!! It looks like I chose the pepper that grows aliens inside!

Freaking Wierd!