It's hard to believe, but my little freckle faced girl just turned 9!! Carli (aka "Chuck") is an all-around great kid. She is kind, thoughtful, smart, funny, hardworking, dedicated, active, is a great example to her sisters, always tries to choose the right, and has a strong testimony of the gospel. I have mixed feelings about her getting older...part of me is sad because it is going by so fast and it won't be long until she's all grown up. The other part of me is happy because she has developed a really fun personality that comes out more and more each day. She is super-sarcastic (because of her Dad!) and her witty responses catch us off guard constantly! She is growing into such a beautiful young lady!
For her birthday, she got to pick out breakfast (hashbrowns and pancakes in the shape of a "9") and we did some water coloring. Carli LOVES to paint and she got a kit just for water colors. For her dinner that night she wanted to go to Olive Garden for some ravioli. They don't sing or anything, but she got a yummy dessert with a candle (which we all helped her eat!)
A couple of days after her actual birth DAY, Carli had her party with 10 of her friends! She wanted a water party so we set up a big piece of plastic down the hill in our front yard to make a slip-n-slide, played some water games, and Chad filled up our big cooler FULL of water balloons. The girls LOVED the slip-n-slide!!
We played a game where they had to dunk a can in water, run down to a bucket (with the can over their head) and dump the water into it. The team to fill the bucket the fastest won. The catch: the can had holes all over the bottom of it! They got soaked!!
Water balloon volleyball wasn't what I thought it would be. The girls aren't very good working together to get the balloon up AND over the net. We tried it for a while, and finally resorted to a water balloon fight, which eventually turned into just a full-blown water fight!!
Such cute girls! They were so much fun!!
Like Mollie, Carli didn't want cake. She wanted ice cream with donuts! I made a donut tower with ribbon and sprinkles. It looked REALLY good when I first did it, but the donuts kind of "settled" by the time we actually sang to her, so the pictures just don't do it justice!
I sure love my freckle-faced girl! Happy 9th Birthday Chuck!! We love you so much!!
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