She's Eight!

Our sweet Alexis turned 8 years old today. We had a great day celebrating. Here is the traditional picture at the birthday table first thing in the morningWe didn't do a friend party this year, so I told Alexis she could plan what we did for the day. She decided she wanted to go to "The House of Bounce". Kristalyn and David introduced us to this place before they moved, and the kids love it! They have all sorts of big bouncy castles to bounce in. Here are Alexis and Tori getting ready to go down a slide backwardsHere is the end result. I love this picture =)One of the bouncy things is a big maze. We spent quite a bit of time in that one. It was exhausting! Here is Levi peaking through at one point.Brandon has been so busy with work this past week due to the recent hail storms. We have hardly seen him, so he decided to take the day off for Alexis's Birthday, which she was thrilled about. On the way out we gave in and let the kids ride on the little rides that they have there.Later that day Brandon took Alexis on a special daddy daughter birthday date. She got to pick whatever restaurant she wanted to go to and she picked, Joe's Crab Shack. Brandon and her both love crab, so this was the perfect choice. He forgot to bring the camera, and I am so sad, because it sounds like they had such a fun time! The whole restaurant sang her happy birthday, and they gave her a lei and hula skirt. They wanted her to get up and do the hula dance while they sang to her, but she opted out of that =). She came home so stuffed, that she could only eat one bite of her birthday cake! When they got home our families came over for cake, ice cream, and most importantly, presents! Here she is blowing out her candles. She was determined to blow them all out with one blow, to make sure her wish would come true =)It was so much fun watching her open up all of her presents. She smiled so big the whole time and was so grateful for everything she got. A few months ago she saw some mood lipstick that she had to have. I kept it in the back of my mind and decided to get some for her birthday.We had to try it out to see if it really worked! Here is Brandon putting it on. There weren't any kind of instructions telling us what each of the colors meant, but it seemed to get darker as time went on, so we think that means that she is really happy =)If you look closely at the box that Alexis is holding you will see that it has a picture of her on it. Nana and Papa had that jewelry box made for her. Inside was a beautiful bracelet. Both the jewelry box and the bracelet were engraved with her name. What treasures!They also got her a fun Barbie that some with fake nails for Alexis to wear =)Grandma, Grandpa, Katie and Michael got her a new swimming suit, sun glasses, nail polish, a cute bracelet and a slip and slide! We will be getting a lot of use out of those things this summer. The kids are already planning on playing the slip and slide tomorrow. Hopefully it won't rain!Here is Alexis with all of her "Puffles" This is what she wanted from us the most. She loves playing Club Penguin, and on the game you can buy little pets called Puffles. Well they just came out with stuffed animal versions of them, and apparently they are quite the hot item. They were sold out in all of the stores, and I finally found a set of them to order online. When they came in the mail, I thought they looked like funny weird little things, but Alexis couldn't have been happier, as you can see in the picture =) We had such a fun time today celebrating Alexis's birthday. I can't believe she is 8 years old! Alexis is so excited to be getting baptised in a few weeks. What a special day that will be. We love you Alexis! Thank you for bringing such joy to our family =)