Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Abbie turned 8!!

We had a VERY busy week, last week. We had a bunch of family in town the beginning of the week, because we welcomed a new cousin into the family. Then, on Tuesday, Abbie turned 8! She has been SO excited to have her birthday! We made it special with gifts, a "crown & wand" cake & most exciting of the day was that she got her ears pierced! I picked her up after school & we went to get them done! She picked out some really cute earrings & has been so good at cleaning & twisting them like she should! She has grown to be such a fun girl! She loves playing with her friends, reading books, helping me when I bake & is such an awesome big sister to Annie, Parker & Connor! We love you Abba-Dabba!

Here she is patiently waiting to open her gifts! We had her wait until evening & she was SO good about it!

Another fun thing about turning 8, is that she was able to choose to be baptized! So, again, we had loads of family come and visit for the weekend! She was a total princess in the dress that Gramma C made for all the girl cousins to be baptized in! I think she felt special because she is the very first one to wear the dress. Aunt Missie made her some adorable bows that she chose to wear along with some fun jewelry from both Grandma Judy & Gramma C. It's hard to tell you how special it is to watch one of your children get baptized...it was just an amazing feeling to sit & watch her get baptized because she wants to follow Jesus!


Here's Abbie & Matt all ready in their white clothes!


Another picture of Matt & Abbie....this was right before heading back to the baptism font!


One more picture of Abbie...just by herself! Isn't she beautiful!

Thank you all who came and supported her on this special day! We love each & all of you!!

3 comments:

Rochelle

She looks so beautiful! I actually started to cry when I read about it. I wish SO much that we could have been there. I love you, Abbie. You will always have a special place in my heart because you were my very first little neice! I'm so glad that my kids have such an incredible example to follow. And Matt and Meshelle, you look like super proud parents! :) Love you guys!

Unknown

What a fun idea to have the same dress for all of the girl cousins. Is there a boy version too? That's a bit trickier. Annie is such a pretty girl...What a great day
---Amy

Karyn

I LOVE the dress Raeanna made. It turned out so cute. A few years down the road I might be asking her for some advice on how to do the same. And Abbie looked like a little angel!