Wednesday, April 2, 2008

She's officially 12 today!

I can't believe my oldest is officially 12 today!

Kayla at her birthday party, celebrating turning 12!

It makes me feel old. Kyle's birthday is on Monday and he will be 8. When we moved here to Colorado 6 years ago, my oldest was 6 and the oldest of 3 and I was very pregnant! Now I have 5 kids, the oldest is 12 and the youngest is 3. I don't even have a baby baby anymore!

Kayla and Me the night of her party!


Kayla had her birthday Party with her friends last Friday night. It was a lot of fun for her. Her one big birthday wish was an Ipod. She was ecstatic when she got her wish! But we did make her pay for more than half of it. She'd been working, doing extra chores for the last 3 months and she put some of her babysitting money towards it.

Kayla opening her gifts.


I still remember the day she was born so vividly! It doesn't seem possible that she is already 12!

Happy Birthday to you, Kayla!!



8 comments:

Julie said...

Wow, twelve already? It seems like yesterday that Kayla and Kyle were holding hands across the strollers as we walked the Smith Fieldhouse!

Congratulations on twelve years of successful mothering!

Cas and Jared said...

How exciting! Hope she had a lovely day! Now she's got Young Women's to look forward to! Yay Kayla!
Cas xo

{krista} said...

She looks so grown up and beautiful. She's almost as tall as you are. Happy Brithday Kayla!!!

Serendipity said...

Happy B'day Kayla!

And I love what your friend Julie said about Congrats on 12 years of successful mothering...

perfectly put...

Angela said...

She is beautiful!! What fun years you have ahead of you Kari--YW, personal progress, EFY, dating, driving.....don't worry it's FUN! Happy bday Kayla!

Krista said...

Boy you have been having a lot of birthdays lately. Or maybe with a family that size it is always someones birthday. If you think it is tramatic to have a 12 year old, then wait until she is 18! Anyhow, Happy birthday to Kayla!

jenny said...

It definitely sounds like birthday alley for you guys....

Happy Birthday Kayla!!

michelle said...

Kayla is such a pretty YW! It looks like she had a fun Birthday. :)