Karlee Turns Eight!

September 22, 2008

Happy Birthday Karlee!

We sure love this girl. Karlee is such a big helper and hard worker. She is always the first to give or offer help and usually the last one to quit. She even tries really hard to help without being asked. She is a good big sister and loves to pack Talon around the house on her hip. She is affectionate and sensitive, and wants to make others happy. We are very proud of our sweet, caring girl. She is looking forward to getting baptized next Sunday.

Karlee has been so excited for her birthday. She is now 8 years old!

One part of their birthday that the kids really look forward to is taking a treat to school. She picked dipped apple bites with sprinkles. We dipped them in melted peanut butter chips and rolled them in lots of different sprinkles. I was sad to realize I forgot to take a picture of them before I sent them to school.

Anyone who knows Karlee, knows she loves dolphins but what you may not know is that she loves Killer Whales almost as much. Well, that was her request for her birthday cake this year. I asked her if she wanted it to be black or pick another color. After much deliberation, she decided she wanted a green one. (I picked the shade) She had a hard time letting it get cut to be eaten. She wanted to just save it. I think it actually hurt her feelings when I did cut it.

We had a fun little get-together with Grandma and Grandpa and Rob's family.

Being the jester that he is, Gerry put trick candles on her cake. I think she got as big of a kick out of it as he did. If you look close you can tell she is laughing in the last picture. She was laughing so much she had a hard time blowing the candles out (again and again!).

Karlee got lots of fun presents including; a Polly Pocket set, a Tinkerbell picnic set, a thumbdoodle book, a gel pen kit, a princess Wii game, and the traditional (when they turn 8) BB gun. Hope she had a fun birthday.