Birthday Fun

Friday was my baby girl's 8th birthday. See how excited she was to turn 8?

Saturday, she took 3 of her friends to a painting class at a local studio and they painted adorable pictures of monkeys, which after the slumber party seems really appropriate! Just kidding, they were precious.

Here's one of the 4 of them all done with their pictures...self portraits, don't you think?

Then we loaded up and came back to our house where they took over our smaller living room and hours of Just Dance 3 ensued. Tip: Just Dance is a great way to wear out little girls!! They were hilarious to watch, and were super serious about getting the moves just right.

Then we did pizza for dinner, and a chocolate chip cookie cake that my awesome neighbor, Karyn, made for us. It was wonderful, I'm considering it as dessert to my breakfast this morning.

Here's the girls this morning, after staying up past midnight and waking at the break of dawn. Something to be said for sweet girls that got excited that the cups in their goodie baskets had scriptures on them. Rachel is blessed to have such sweet friends (I consider it a blessing, too!!)

And for good measure, here's a few pictures of my baby girl over the last 8 years....I'm going to get a Kleenex now...

She'll be 25 before I know it..