Hope's 8

I can't believe my baby turned 8. Time goes too fast. She is super excited to be 8 and has been looking forward to it from the day she turned 7. She is really looking forward to getting Baptized in a few weeks. She had school that day and I took treats in. Her class made her a "hug book", it was super cute, everyone in her class wrote a page on why they thought she is special and then her teacher put it all together.  I also let her have her first real sleep over that night with the neighbor girl. I wasn't sure how it would go and Jennifer's mom was worried also because Jennifer is pretty shy. We figured if worse came to worse she just was next door and I could walk her home. They had a blast. They played and laughed and were super silly. I put them to bed about 10:30 but they giggled and laughed for I don't know how long. I finally fell asleep but Rich said he could hear them until about midnight.

 We got her a CTR sign for her bedroom

 Bath stuff from Autumn and Tymber

 A necklace and bracelet we got her that has CTR on it.

 New roller-blades

 A helmet and knee-pads from Grandma and Grandpa

Saturday I let Hope have her first friends birthday party when I got off work. She was super excited. We invited about 9 people  think and all but 3 showed up. The weather was a little windy but i was nice outside. Tymber found all the games and ran the whole party. It was super nice just letting her take responsibility of everything, secretly I think she had more fun then the 8 year olds.