Eight is great!!!

This year was a big year for Kennedy...she turned 8 years old! She has been so excited for all the neat things that happen this year.


Her first big decision of her little life was deciding when to have her baptism. She so wanted to get baptized in February, close to her actual birthday, but one set of grandparents were unable to make it due to work issues. So she had to decide if she was going to have it in February (the week of her birthday), or wait until March. She was in tears over it, but finally decided that she wanted her grandparents their so she would wait until March. (What a big sacrifice for her)

We had a little family party on her actual birthday. And Kennedy was so excited to receive her first real set of scriptures...with her name on them.

Then Kennedy was excited about planning her birthday party. She wanted to have a "late-night" party (where the kids come and stay late at night). So the girls all came and had pizza, watched a movie, painted toe-nails, and played until the late hour of 8:30. She loved it, and it was the easiest party we've done yet!


We've also started picking paint colors for the kids bedrooms and the bathrooms. Since Kennedy's birthday was first we thought we would do her bedroom first. Now for some reason, Amber thought it would be neat to do something different in each room. Kennedy loved this idea and finally decided she wanted squares. Shouldn't be too hard right? Now it wasn't extremly hard, just time consuming. It took us 1 1/2 saturdays to paint the whole thing. But it sure does look great. Hope she likes those colors for a LONG time.

First we measured and painted white for the lines.

Then we taped (oh the tape). And then we painted our pattern.

We let each child paint a square

And here is the finished look: