Faye's 3rd birthday.

Our little Faye turned 3 on Jan.28. I can't believe how big she is. It really seems like I just brought her home from the hospital yesterday and now she is 3. My little girly girl loves to dance, she likes to dress up in any thing from a princess dress to a witches costume, she also likes to pretend she is one of the step sisters from Cinderella, often telling me to call her Anastasia or Drizella. She is a very independent 3 year old. She always likes to try new foods. I love that about her. We love having her in our family, she sure keeps things interesting around our house. She brought many big blessings to our family when she was born. We love her and thank Heavenly Father for our little Princess.

We celebrated her birthday on the 28th, just us. I made her a cake and we gave her a strawberry shortcake doll, that she loved. Then 2 weeks later we had a little party for her with some friends. She was so excited about her party. I started preparing everything the night before. I was actually really excited about making her cake, but It didn't turn out the way I wanted. It was still pretty good and she loved it and thats what counts. We had so much fun and I immediately asked her and Alan what kind of party they would like for next year. I can't wait to plan it. I just really like decorating the cakes, even if they cause me the biggest stress. I love them and would do anything for them.

December

I know, I know, but better late than never. In December we had a lot of celebrations, all together. We celebrated our 8th anniversary, and we also celebrated Alan's birthday, which is really in Nov. but we decided to wait. We also blessed Alexis, so we did it all on the same day. We don't have family close by, but we are blessed to have friends who care about us and our kids and drove from Logan, Riverton and Tooele to help us with the blessing and to celebrate Alan's birthday. This day started at around 6:00am. I decided to make Alans cake. Now I know why cakes cost so much. Althoug this cake is nothing compared to professional cakes. It took me about 3hrs. to decorate the thing. I'm just glad I baked it the night before. I had everything ready, or so I thought, then I looked for my icing colors and one was missing, so I had to run to Walmart at that time, just glad its opne 24hrs. After I finished it was time to get the food ready and packed and as always we got there late. And to make us look even worst our friends got there first and had to wait for us, so sorry. Any way, we blessed Alexis, Marco said she gave him a big smile when he was done. She looked so cute, and then we had some really good food and conversation with friends. Alan had a few friends over and he was so happy. Thank you veryone for coming. Having you here made it all even more special. Also Faye got her second hair cut. She had her first in the summer, but someone took both cameras to work and I had nothing to document the moment with. She looked so grown up in the chair and she did a really good job sitting still. We also celebrated Christmas, just the 5 of us, had to think and cound for a minute. I can't believe we have been here for a year already.