Brinley turns 6!

I can't believe Brinley is 6 years old! Six years since I held that ANGEL of a girl in my arms for the first time. I have sure loved watching her grow and her personality grow with her. Brinley is full of life and I love it!
 Brinely age 6!

-She loves to color, still!
-She is very creative and always coming up with new ways to have fun.
-She STILL doesn't like to sleep, I hope this isn't a lifetime battle :)
-She loves to dance. She is enjoying dance class, but having fun dancing at home or with friends is her favorite.
-She loves to help me cook and is great at washing dishes.
-She is reading short/simple books and is especially good at math.
-She is such a good big sister to Marlee and Marlee just loves her.
-She can often pick on Casen, but definitely stands up for him if anyone else tries to :)
-She loves pizza and ice-cream, but is usually a great eater and likes mini peppers, tomatoes, all FRUIT, black beans, and Cafe Rio sweet pork...Favorite restaurant is Cafe Rio.

 Sweet baby girl

Never knew blonde hair was coming after all the dark hair she was born with!

                                             Brinley's Baby Blessing day, just 10 days old!

                                      Classic Brinley face at this age... about 6 months old :)

                                Age 2, loved her in her little towel wrap and her crazy hair :)

                                                        Love this face! Birthday #2!

                                                     Birthday #3 - talking to Grandma

                                                        Excited to hand out goodie bags

Birthday Breakfast!

                                                                      Birthday #4

                                                                        Birthday #5





BIRTHDAY #6!!!

These two cute cousins were born just a couple months apart, and every summer we talk about how fun it would be to have Andelin here for Brinley's birthday, and this yeat she finally got to be here! Jenn and her 3 kiddos arrived at our house the day after we got home from AZ.

Puffed French Toast and Fruit Salad for her birthday breakfast. She would have preferred Crepes, but we didn't have whip cream and that is a must :)

We headed to the pool after breakfast. Marlee rocked it.

Classic Brinley jump!

Me and the Monkey :) I swear it's either this or her cheese face, no in between!

Laurie, Andelin, Jenn, and Cardon... so glad they all got to join us!

Could they be any cuter!?

After the pool we played at the park for a bit and as luck would have it the sprinklers came on, yay!

They had so much fun holding hands and running through the grass!

                                                That afternoon she had her dance pictures

                                                                 Cute little dancer!

        Andelin came to watch and they even performed their dance for her with their costumes on.

Family shot on her birthday, wishing Ryan was here with us!

I wasn't up to doing a birthday party and planned on pizza and a movie with her cousins, but she really wanted two of her best friends to join us, and so McKinley (and her little sister Kylie), and Daphne joined us for the night.

Working on the last minute cake while the kids were eating pizza and watching the movie!

                                                          Marlee got to lick the spoon :)

                                        Strawberry Pound Cake Trifle at Brinley's request!

                                                The "teenager" shirts she had requested :)

I love the look on her face! Silly girl. She was so excited about these roller blades and didn't take them off all week!