Turning 7!!

The BIG, long-awaited, and exciting day finally arrived on Wednesday, Februrary 20th. She had a great day at school wearing her birthday sash and button and getting some extra special attention.

 

After getting all dressed up for the occasion (I even let her wear my pearl necklace which she has been dying to wear for a long time), we opened up her presents...

 

(I know this present looks like a cross or something, but it's actually the present she wanted the most...a doll form to sew her own doll clothes. Not sure where she got this idea since I don't sew, but she loved it!)

 

We also got her some fabric, a sewing kit, and a little sewing machine to make her "doll dress making" dreams come true!

 

She got some new clothes for her "American Girl" doll from Grandma Julie and Grandpa Don.

 

Anda bit of cash from the Calls and her Cleveland aunts (can you tell she was excited about it!!)

 

Then we ate dinner at the restaurant of her choice (Golden Corral...woohoo!) before coming home to celebrate with cake and ice cream.

 

 

Happy Birthday to our sweet little girl. She is a great role model and a wonderful big sister to her two younger brothers. She loves going to school and is a voracious reader (she is really into the Magic Treehouse series right now...so glad she is over the Junie B. Jones phase!!) She has really improved with her gymnastics skills during this last year and it has been fun to watch her excel in something that she enjoys so much. She just finished memorizing the Articles of Faith and is now trying to finish reading the Book of Mormon before her baptism next year. We still can't quite figure out where the last seven years have gone, but we sure couldn't imagine our lives without our Abby girl!