J is 8

My baby girl turned 8 this year. I am not at all happy. She is my baby and my only girl. On Sunday we had a family/friends party for her at a local park with a water feature and a big play structure nearby. She had a great time!

Wearing her new sundress and matching sunglasses from Uncle Pat and Aunt Angela.

Our niece coming off of the slide.

Uncle Pat and our nephew


Grandma Jane

J and Kim

the cake

Then on Tuesday she had 3 of her friends (and their dolls) over to make fancy hats to go to high tea.

J and her 3 friends

Mom Mom's gift to J this year was to go to a Victorian Tea Garden and have high tea. They had such a good time!






She had a great time!!!!

Belated 4th of July

Sorry for the delay in this post. I lost my camera battery charger and we just found it today!

We spent our 4th in our little town. It was AMAZING! We will never go anywhere else again for the 4th of July! Our little town is truly a community.

In the morning there was the first ever 4th of July kiddie parade. it was short, sweet, and adorable. It was very cute.




Fireworks are legal in our town and the city was encouraging everyone to bring their fireworks into town and light them off in one of our parks where they were having the big show and there would be firemen present so if anything got out of hand they were right there. The main show from the city and the fireworks afterward were truly incredible! I have never seen anything like it.

A Day on the River

Yesterday we got together with some of our friends and had a day down on the river.