Birthday Girl

Birthdays are such a special day! I love birthdays! I love making the people I love feel special.

In our family, we only do "friend" birthday parties on the even years of the kids birthdays. Since Paige is 5, we aren't having a party this year. I decided that Paige would love to go the salon and get her nails done. So we had a mom and daughter day. We had pedicures, enjoyed lunch, and then dinner out with the family, and an enjoyable evening with extended family and some friends for cake n ice cream.














Here is Paige and I decorating her "Castle" cake, which she wanted all white this year. So there isn't any definition with lines or flowers or anything. It's the Princess' cake and she can have it anyway she wants it! (For today!)

Here we are getting our toes done. Paige loved putting her feet in the water. She chose pink for her toes with flowers on the big toes, and green for her fingernails. This is what daughters are for! To have fun getting all dolled up and shopping. I have been blessed with a shopper and a trendy girl. It's a good thing and probably a bad thing when she gets older, but for now - it's FUN!!!!
















Who doesn't love dinner at Red Robyn where they will sing and clap "Happy Birthday" to you?!!! My kids love it! Grandma and Grandpa joined us for Paige's birthday dinner.















Then home for presents, cake and ice cream with Uncle Brian and Aunt Kathy, cousin Randy (we caught her before she went back to college), and the Kidders (Deidra and Michael), oh yes, and we must not forget Grandma and Grandpa!!!
















Paige blowing the candle out on her cake.

                             Paige's new birthday outfit.

The Birth of a Princess...

Well 5 years ago today January 7^th, Dr. West said these magical words to Scott and I, “It’s a Girl!!!” We both looked at each other and said, “It’s a girl!” After having 2 boys , we got ourselves a princess. And a princess is what she’s been since the moment she entered into this world.

So may I introduce our Princess Paige…

We are so blessed to have Paige in our family. She brings such creativity, music, and DRAMA! Paige loves to dress up, dance, sing, and even wrestle with her brothers.

Happy Birthday Paige! We love you.

Happy New Year

A new year brings resolutions. Resolutions that you will keep and incorporate into your life and those that you make knowing full well that you won't keep but temporarily.


So here is my first resolution that I knew would be temporary, but was hoping it would make it at least a few months. Truth is it didn't even it make it 2 days.

A New brings another visit to the ER.

Here I was thinking after meeting our family deductible many times over last year with Emmett’s 3 surgeries that we could maybe (hopefully) take a break in 2010.

Well thanks to a family in our ward who doesn’t believe in staying home from church when their children are obviously sick. Then they think they are doing you a favor by giving your child one of their toys that they have hacked on. Yes, I am still very bitter. I can't stand any member of the church who comes to church knowing they are SICK!!!!

So guess what, yep, Emmett ends up getting croup on Jan. 2nd. With Emmett, nothing is easy or simple, so croup landed us in the emergency room. He had trouble catching his breath. He would start retching from the mucus, which he isn't able to retch due to the surgery he just had. So with all of this, we ended up in the ER for breathing treatments and steroids. URGH!!!!!

So my positive attitude for 2010 is already in the crapper!!!