Quotes...

Well, Allie is on a roll lately with the cute sayings.

At church on Sunday, we had a flute solo in between the talks.  It was really beautiful.  I turned to see Allie asking me if someone was dead.  

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The other day Allie and I visited a nursery to grab some plants.  While we were there, we were given this awfully large grocery cart to use to gather the plants.  The aisles at the nursery were pretty thin.  I had a really hard time keeping the cart on the pathes.  Plus, the racket that stupid cart created on concrete was another thing I could have gone without. 

Checking out of the nursery was not fun.  First, you had to haul the honking cart into a little place with lots of other honking carts.  Then there was a brand new cashier who knew squat about checking people out.  Then there was the guy who I'm pretty sure budded in front of me.  Any who, it took a good 15 minutes of manuevering and waiting to get checked out.

After we got in the car on the way out of there.  I mentioned out loud how big of a madhouse that place had been.  A few seconds later Allie was like "Mom, why was that house so mad?"

Allie's 5th Birthday!

 It has been a really busy weekend!  On Sunday, we had her family party.

On Saturday, we had her very first friend party.  Here the first guests are awaiting the rest of the guests.

She wanted a Dora the Explorer cake and so we made it into a whole big thing.

Jason made up this cute map for them to find the cupcakes and ice cream that Swiper swiped.

They had to each take 10 jumps on the trampoline. Run around the swingset and the fence.  Then it was on to the front yard to go around the flag pole (it had balloons on it,) and then to touch the fire hydrant.  They found the cupcakes had been hidden on the front porch.

 Going around the fire hydrant

 The Flag pole.

 Our next door neighbor, Wanda.  She came over to give Allie a hug.

 The party crew.

One of the 5 clues that we used to find each of the gifts that swiper swiped as well.  That swiper was a busy Fox that afternoon.

 From left: Beckham, Ellyse, Alix, Whitney, Kaitlyn, Maria, Sevia, Brenton, and Allie.

 Sevia's mom brought a fun bouncy house for us to use.  It was so fun for the kids!

 And, the cake.  Nothing terribly special but she wanted Dora and this was the only one we had.

We love having Allie in our lives.  She creates such a spark wherever she goes.  She's getting so funny lately.  She is so cuddly and has been ever since she was a baby.  She can be the cutest person in the world world when she wants to be.  Happy birthday to our little firecracker!