Happy Birthday To Cloey

Our little blue eyes!

Opening presents!

All the kids had fun at the water play area dousing each other in a water fight!

Jessica, Cloey, and Lily

Playing Pin the Crown!

Autumn at IHOP, she had a little cold!

Daddy and Cloey at IHOP!

Time for presents!

She really was having fun, I promise!

Proof that the chocolate ice cream cones liked their shirts more!

Lily posing!

Lily didn't want to have anything to do with the jeep, Cloey on the other hand was so ready to drive!

We hit Sonic for some half off slushies! I was getting Autumn out and bringing her to the door and here are my cuties hanging out at the door!

Yay for presents!

Our Cloey girl turned 3, I can't believe she is already 3! On her birthday (the 19th of August) Brian had to work so I took the girls to the zoo, where I proceed to get them out of the car and lock doors, well I locked my keys, purse, and diaper bag in the car! So to pass the time until Brian came we got some chocolate ice cream cones which mostly ended up on their shirts. We finally got the zoo and had a fun time. Later that night we went to IHOP for her birthday dinner. Saturday the 22nd we had a birthday party at a park with a water play area and we all had so much fun! Cloey is such a wonderful little girl and we love her so very much. She is sweet and caring and just makes us laugh with her whit and conversation!

Our Autumn is 9 months!

Our Autumn is 9 months, well technically 9 1/2 months now... but anyway, we love our little Autumn so much, she brings so much joy to our family! She is crawling and jabbering. She loves to test her voice, and she especially loves to play and laugh with her big sisters. So here are some fun pictures of Autumn!

Autumn saying hello to her cousin Lola!

She has such a sweet smile!

Bright Eyes!

We love our Autumn so much!

Congratulations to my Best Friend!

Melanie and I have been friends for about 13 years now and I love her so much! We have some great memories! She got married the 1st day of August, and Brian and I were so happy to be able to attend their temple sealing and their reception that night! Everything was wonderful and Jeff and Melanie were just glowing! Good luck to Jeff and Melanie! You both have a wonderful life ahead of you!

Testimony...

So Lily really has not been feeling very well at all. She has had a fever on and off for the past 2 days. Today I think that she has peaked and hopefully her cold will go away, but she said something sweet today. Tonight she was feeling particularly miserable and kept asking me to hold her. While I was holding her our conversation went something like this:

Lily: "Mom, in primary we talked about boys giving blessings to people who are sick."

Mom:"Yes we did, daddy can give you a blessing if you want. Do you want to ask daddy to give you a priesthood blessing?"

Lily: "Yes I do."

Even though it was a short conversation, I was overwhelmed that she had thought about this and that she had remembered what she has been taught. Especially that her faith and testimony are growing about the gospel and especially our Savior, Jesus Christ. Her faith is so simple and pure yet so powerful, I felt the spirit very strongly. Brian was surprised too that she had brought it up too. Brian was on his way out the door after the blessing to fix my Aunt and Uncle's garage door when Cloey climbed up on the seat and wanted a blessing too. So we told her if she got sick than she could have a blessing. But Brian and I had talked last night about starting a tradition of him giving the kids birthday blessings since they don't go to school yet and we always got our blessings before school. But what great experience tonight was to witness testimony growing. I am so grateful for my children and the sweetness and love they bring to our home. And I am especially grateful for the gospel, it is the rock and center of our lives in this chaotic world. I am grateful to my Heavenly Father and my Savior for blessing our home with our three beautiful princesses. I know that Lily will get better and she will remember that she got better because her daddy is a holder of our Father in Heaven's powerful priesthood and her faith and knowledge of His love for her will grow, so that she knows she is special and that He is very aware of her.