HaPpY BiRtHdAy RiLyN!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RILYN!
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This sweet girl has enough personality to go around, as illustrated in this picture!!

Rilyn adds so much spunk to our family! I still remember finding out I was pregnant with her at the Urgent Care when I went in to get antibiotics for a urinary tract infection.

Rilyn drawing dinosaurs last week.

I could not believe it when the doctor told me I was pregnant! He had just asked me a minute before that (in a few different ways) if I was and I told him no! I didn't see how I could have been with the craziness of the weeks before with Kyle having been in the hospital for croup and Laren being out of town at a job interview. But with my irregular cycles and the unpredictableness of life, it happened and this cute little girl is proof!

Rilyn was born right after we moved here to Colorado, and it doesn't seem like she's old enough to be 6 and going into First Grade next year. Nor does it seem like we've lived in Colorado for six years! I cannot get over how much faster time goes by the older I get.

Rilyn playing pretend with a veil.

Rilyn has a cute little face and a cute little voice to match. Many people have told us through the years that Rilyn's face looks just like a porcelain doll.

Rilyn is friendly, currently she is playing with the neighbor girl her age on the front porch. They are playing with her Pet Shop toys. She got a lot of Pet Shop at her birthday party that we did a few weeks ago right before school got out. Today was pretty much a family day.

We spent the morning (the kids and I) at a Primary Activity Day at the Park playing games, like 3 legged races and shoe kicks and wheelbarrow racing. We came home for lunch with Dad who was working on the waterfall (again) and then went to the Denver Library in downtown so the kids could collect their first prize for the Summer Reading Program. It was a Rockies Baseball Cinch Sack book bag - the perfect prize to start off with so they each have something to carry their books in!

Rilyn sitting on top of a lion reading at the library today. (I only had my cell phone camera with me, so pardon the fuzzy pictures.)

The kids watching the Puppet Show.

We stayed so the kids could see a class act puppet show with a ventriliquist. It was the most amazing puppet show I've seen. The guy did several different puppets (like 8 or so) and he told the story of Jack and the Beanstalk at the end. My kids were so amused by his different voices, though they couldn't tell that he was the one speaking them or singing them.

We came home and had Rilyn's favorite thing for dinner: Crepes. Crepes filled with raspberries and peaches and vanilla and chocolate pudding. We sang Happy Birthday over the crepes for her!

We have so much fun with this girl!
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY RILYN!!! We love you so, so, so much!!