Friday July 20

Happy Birthday sweet Elsie Rose!!!!!

I can't believe little Elsie bug is 12 years old!!!!!!

She woke up so happy and said she definitely felt 12!

I went for a run.

When I got home, Madi took the kids to go get snow cones.

It was only 10:00, but I had to get the kids out of the house so the Beehives could come and decorate Elsie's rom!

The snow cone shack wasn't open yet, so they tried Zumberry.

They weren't open yet either!

So they went to Sonic :)

While they were gone, Ms Dynka came to visit!!!!

I was so sad!

The last three years she has come to visit Elsie on her birthday, but Elsie has always been gone!

Bummer!

But she left a fun present for her and we will be sure to visit her once school starts!

Elsie came home and was so excited when she saw the room decorated!!!

We had lunch and then we went swimming.

The one thing Elsie wanted to do for her birthday was go swimming.

The Morgan's are out of town, but they let us use their pool.

She would have stayed for several hours...that girl needs a pool of her own!!!!!

After 3 hours, we thought maybe we should get out and take showers and have dinner.

We had mac and cheese for dinner :)

Of course!

Then we drove to the fire station to see Dad.

We had cake and ice cream with the guys.

Then we opened presents.

A giant jar of pickles form Porter.

Some fun hair bows from Cassi.

A new hammock swing from Madi.

From Mom and Dad, we had two big surprises.

One was a wallet with a note inside saying that we were gonna go to Yellowstone!

That is the secret trip that we have planned the second week of August.

She was pretty excited about it!

But I don't think anything will ever top the reaction we got with her last gift.

She has been talking about wanting a phone.

How Madi and Cassi both got phones when they were 12.

But....man a 12 year old doesn't need a phone!!!!!

But I liked the idea of her being able to text us and other family members.

So we took one of our old phones, did a factory reset, and got a new case for it.

We downloaded a texting app, and now it just works like an ipod.

So she needs WiFi for it to work.

Anyway, we had that all wrapped up, and when she opened it.....oh my goodness!!!!!

Best reaction ever!

I CANNOT believe we didn't record it!

It was amazing!!!!!

She was so excited!

She couldn't believe it.

And then she started crying.....happy so excited crying!

Adrenaline built up crying.....

Oh I am SO MAD it isn't recorded!!!!!

But it was amazing!

We stayed at the station for a bit, then we met up with neighbors at Sonic....for more 1/2 shakes and ice cream :)

Man we are tired here!!!!!!

It was a pretty great day!