her birthday

do you know how brides are often called bride-zillas? 

well our gracie was what you could call a birthday-zilla. 

this girl was out of control. haha.

the night before she let us know she wanted little poems

on the walls like mason had.

(of course i planned on doing that early the next morning.

she doesn't usually wake up very early)

so when i woke up at 6:30am to do them... she was already sitting on the couch.

as soon as i walked out she asked if she could open her presents! this girl meant business. birthday business!

i told her we should probably wait till everyone was awake.

then we put her in the shower and while she was in there i made all the little birthday poem signs and hung them on the walls. when she came down the hall she said, " i didn't even see these before".

 phew! i lucked out there.

not long after her shower she was asking again for presents!!  we had a couple of them wrapped and ready for her "birthday week". i talked her into this one first though...

i think it's safe to say she was happy with her gift.

they were pretty tricky at first though.

there were a lot of slips and falls the first day.

to celebrate that day we headed to the movies and dinner. uncle mark was here so he joined us and grandma becky came too! she picked red robin for dinner... and she probably told us 20 times she wanted them to sing to her! she was very concerned they weren't going to.

but they finally did! and all was well again.

she really enjoyed her birthday, but she was really looking forward to her party a couple days later. and she had lots of practice to do on her skates to be ready for it!!!