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Dear Grace, 

5 years ago the sweetest little baby girl was placed in my arms. Your delivery was quick, easy, quiet, and a bit dramatic. A little bit like you in a way. Grace you have been a little ray of sunshine  in our little family. We are so grateful for our little rainbow baby.  Happy birthday sweet girl!!

Here are 5 things about you at age 5:

1: Your favorite colors are Pink and Purple

2: You are very sensitive and have the sweetest kindest spirit.

3: Your absolute favorite thing in all the world is My Little Ponies.

4: You are very driven and love to learn 

5: You are an acrobat and a monkey. You can always be found swinging from something, jumping off something or flipping. Your nickname is the honey badger because of this.

BONUS: Your favorite food is Macaroni and Cheese

Love,

Mom and Dad

Grace's Birthday

I'm a bit behind on my blogging, and eventually I will get myself caught up, but until then I'll post the most recent of our comings and goings.

Happy Birthday to my now favorite 4 year old! 

We celebrated  this sweet girl all day long yesterday, and had so much fun! We were just sad that daddy was stuck in Indiana yesterday and couldn't be here to join in on all the birthday fun!

We started off by getting up super early in the morning, and going up to pine valley mountain to go fishing with my brother and his son Kyler. We didn't catch anything which was a bummer, but the cool temperature and the views of the mountain and kids playing made up for it. The kids had a great time and were covered in dirt by the end.

The kids napped on the way home, which allowed us to bathe them as soon as we got home. We headed straight to the movie theater afterwards, where We saw secret life of pets. The kids loved it.

That evening my brother and his family came to my parents house to party. We ate pizza, salad, and root beer for dinner. Afterwards we opened presents, and followed up with cake and ice cream.  We ended the night hitting a piñata which the kids loved!!

Grace hit the jack pot when it comes to presents and still has some waiting at home in Indiana for her. She got Disney princess magic clip dolls. Which is basically an easy way to change the outfits of the princesses. She got the talking big book of boo boo's from doc mcstuffins. She also got Legos, a stamp/art set, a memory game, and a little decorate your own magnet set.

This year Grace was a bit wishy washy on the type of cake she wanted. All year long she wanted doc mcstuffins, but then a month ago she said she wanted a frozen cake. She kept going back and forth. Finally, I decided on doc mcstuffins after I found the figurines on clearance 50% off.  It turned out cute, but most importantly Grace Loved it.

I ended up taking a video of Hayden at the piñata because he was using his baseball skills  and really going to town on it. I'll post it later.

Happy birthday my little Gracie girl!!! We sure love you!!! Thanks for choosing to come to our family.

Joy school

Year 2 of joy school in the garner household, but this time it is Grace's turn! She has been so excited to get to go to her own school and I think she thought it was even better than she imagined.   

I did a small interview with her yesterday just to see where she is at in the beginning of school.

When she grows up she wants to be a mommy. ( melted my heart when she told me that) she also said she wanted to be a super hero. Then she said "so I want to be a super hero mommy!"

Her favorite color is purple and pink

Her favorite food is macaroni and cheese, grapes and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Grace is 3!

Happy Birthday to my sweet Gracie Girl 3 years of sweetness and sass all rolled into one tiny body. We sure love her and all her spunk. 

At 3, grace loves horses and ponies. In fact she wants to be a sheriff/cowgirl, and had a sheriff Callie birthday.  Her favorite shows are my little ponies and sheriff Callie. She loves the colors pink and purple, but purple is her most favorite. She talks with a Brooklyn accent and is one tough cookie. She basically runs the family, and therefore she is nicknamed the mob boss. She loves to jump on the trampoline and play outside. She loves to twirl and dance especially when she has a "bew-ful" dress on. Her best friends are Deacon and Elsie. Her favorite food is raisens, grapes, and Mac n cheese. She loves snuggle and give loves, and is always up for playing with her big brother Hayden.

Gracie girl you are my partner (that's what you say). You are so sweet and loving to everyone around you.

You have a testimony already and I love it. You bring the spirit to our home so much. I love seeing you "read" the scriptures and hearing you say things like "mommy I need to be baptized!" It warms my heart. 

You are going to do great things when you grow up. I am excited to see it, but I am happy with how you little you are now. Take your time. We love you sweetheart!

Happy birthday Baby girl!!

Love,

Mommy

No more diapers!

This little girl of mine has sure grown up these last 6 months. She is no longer a baby, and this last week put her over the top in the big girl world. My little Gracie girl is potty trained. Hallelujah!!!! Only 1 child in diapers! 

Yesterday afternoon I randomly just decided to potty train her. I didn't have anywhere to go so I thought "why not!?"

My potty training experience with Grace is night and day different than with Hayden. Poor Hayden just didn't want too, 

And he was so scared too. It literally took months to get him trained. This is very typical of his personality. Timid and likes to take his time. Grace on the other hand  was potty trained in 24 hours.  She had one very small accident today, but that was it. I didn't hardly have to remind her, she just went on her own. There were times she went, wiped, flushed, washed her hands and flipped lights off without me even knowing that she had gone in there.Once she put her mind to it there was no going back. It's been a whirl wind and it's been awesome!

Like Hayden, Grace got to pick out a new toy that equalled the price of a box of diapers once she had a certain number of stickers on her chart. She picked out a "fur" real pet. She originally picked daisy the kitty cat but when we got her home she didn't work. So we took her back. Sadly the store was out of the kitties so we got Pom Pom the panda bear.  She and Hayden both love it and have been found all day today playing "mom and dad" to Pom Pom. It's the cutest thing ever!

Good job Gracie! We are so proud of our big girl!