10 years old, holy cow! I can't believe my baby girl is a decade old. Seems like just yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital wondering what we would ever do with a baby...
Ah, memories. It has been such a decade of change for us and I feel so blessed to have a daughter such as Olivia to have shared it with me. She is such a genuinely good person and truly brings so much joy to my life.
This years birthday was a little crazy. We spend the actual day driving from Moab to Lehi to have a birthday party before we left the next day for a flight to California to be with my family at Disneyland for Spring Break (but that's another post).
Birthday parties at Jann's house are always awesome. She carries on Lisa's tradition of wonderful family parties and we value them even more now that we don't get to participate in them as often as we would like. Thank you Jann for helping my baby girl feel special on her special day.
We took off the next day for some time in Disneyland to celebrate my Dad's 50th birthday and spend some time with Chrys before he left to serve a mission for 2 years. While in California we got to have an amazing family party to celebrate birthdays and a general get together. Special thanks to Grandma Cheryl for such a great time!
So much activity left no time before Spring Break for Liv to have a party with her friends so once we returned we picked a weekend and had Liv invite some of her friends for a party at the local rock climbing gym.
Liv had the chance to attend a birthday party last year at this gym, called Stone Age, and really liked it so when she asked if she could have her party there we said yes.
With that I will now switch to picture mode and will count each as around 1000 words (that should meet Jaime's word count quota that she gave me)
Liv opening gifts the 2 days before her birthday (she had school the next day and we were leaving right after for Moab and then Lehi on her actual birth day)
Party time with the fam!
Liv enjoying getting gifts.
In California the next day at a party with my family and extended family. It was awesome!
Liv climbing high!
Harris climbing high!
Chet climbing. (so it doesn't look high because of the zoom but I was actually, at least, 4 feet or so up in the air)
Liv and Jaime decided on cupcakes instead of the traditional cake. We get these at a place called Cake Fetish here in ABQ and they are fantastic.
Group action photo of the festivities.
Me lighting the...cupcakes. It was pretty hilarious (apparently).
I think that people were laughing because the candles were "sparkler" ones and kept shooting sparks into the air.
Group picture of all the friends. So fun!
