The Birthday Girl

Since Daddy is going to be out of town for the next couple of weeks, we decided to celebrate Camilla's birthday a week early. Today was the special day! At breakfast Camilla asked me if I could please call her the birthday girl, and so we did! We had a lot of fun hanging out as a family! I made her a rainbow cake to celebrate and we did a mini photo shoot before the festivities.

 Camilla is such an awesome five year old and I can't wait to share a bit more about her on her birthday post next week.

 I love that she has to throw at least one funny face in there every time we have the camera out.

 Looking at how big she is in these pictures makes me tear up a bit. It's hard to believe that just five short years ago we were bringing this sweet little girl home from the hospital.

 She has grown into such a beautiful little girl and being her mother is an absolute pleasure.

(Excuse me while I cry all over my keyboard)

 We broke tradition and sliced the cake early for pictures. I am so glad I did because we didn't get one good one of that cake after dinner.

 A few weeks ago at Wal-mart she eyed up a little pink scooter and has been talking about it ever since.

 She was the most excited little girl today!

After lunch they begged us to go for a walk with them. They were getting bored of riding out front I think. We went down to the trails and let them go free. Hyrum conquered his fear of hills on his bike and Camilla pretty well mastered her scooter skills. We all came back pretty hot and tired!

We celebrated with some of the family here in the city with a BBQ, cake and ice cream. It was a pretty fun time! More on this little girl next week! We sure do love her!