Birchell Family: 4 Years Old

I cannot believe my little baby girl is now a BIG 4 YEAR OLD!!!! She is such a sweet, smart, funny, wonderful child. We love her more with each day, and cannot wait to hear what she has to say next. We spend our days laughing at her, or trying to hold our laughs back as she figures out this world. This year she has grown so much, and really started to be a little person. We love her to the moon and back, and want her to stop growing so fast!!!!
Brilee woke up bright and early this morning and was so excited to see our house decorated in her Happy Birthday Banners. She ran downstairs to check out her balloons (we bought a helium tank for her balloons), and was thrilled to play in them. We then got ready for the day and headed to the store. We bought Stacia's class donuts and went to deliver them. They sang Happy Birthday to her, and we ate our donut. We came home and baked her bday cake, and she got to decorate it. She loved it. Pam stopped by on her way home, and we LOVED seeing her! Hopefully next time her little girl is awake so she can play. Bri's friends started showing up around 2:30 and the party was in full force by 3:15. Elly, Chaz, Mar, Haddy, Addy, Jilli, Jacsy, Jacelynn, and Linzie all came to celebrate Bri's bday. It was so much fun! Bronson slept most of the party, and by the time he woke up Daddy, Granny, and Stacia were here to help with him! We played duck duck goose, pin the tail on the donkey, and lots of other little girl imaginary games! Thanks to everyone who came and made her party so much fun! I dropped the neighbor girls off around 6:30 and we headed to Granny's. She made Bri tacos (cause Bri's favorite food is shredded cheese, and obviously we couldn't have that for dinner). Brilee saw Granny's little chairs and started crying cause "we forgot to play music chairs at my party." So, after dinner we played "music chairs". The music started, I pulled a chair, the kids went around the circle, and then Elly stopped the music. Bri was about to be the one without a chair so she ran and grabbed the chair I pulled out and put it back in the circle. She is quite the problem solver! After musical chairs our fun day was over. We came home, put the kids to bed, and cleaned the house. The mess was TOTALLY worth the fun they had, and it's a good thing cause it will happen again Saturday for her family party!!!! We love this month of birthdays.

An oil rig about a mile from my house blew up yesterday. It's been crazy watching and hearing all the fire. It's a huge loss, and crazy to watch. Here is the ksl link to the story, and lots of cool pics.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=23815511