Day 2: I'm Thankful for the Girl

I give thanks for her everyday. She's my world. I couldn't imagine life without her. Sofia is full of life, joy, and dreams. She has a wonderful imagination- a very wonderful imagination. Sofia is very loving and friendly. She makes me want to be a better person, because all I want to do is be a good example for her. She has given me many reasons to never give up. Sofia makes my world more interesting. She says the funniest things, wears silly outfits, sings every song, plays every game, she's such a princess and can be "high maintenance." Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins, Sofia is one of those girls. I am thankful for every second she's made me laugh, cry, love, and learn.

Day 1: I'm Thankful for my husband

20 days until Thanksgiving. This post is the beginning to the top 20 things I'm very thankful for. Day 1- The husband. I love my handsome husband and everything he does for me. He is very caring, loving, sweet, and a great provider. He makes it possible for me to be a stay at home mother and a full time student. Brian is very supportive and I really like that about him. I love the way he loves me {I'm a lucky girl} Being married to him is a blessing, and I am very thankful for it.

The Girl in the Pink Boots

We went to our friend John's wedding reception. The wedding reception was fun, and it was a Western theme. I wanted Sofia to wear jeans and a long sleeve shirt- it's kinda cold and it went perfect with the theme, but Sofia said "No, ladies wear dresses to receptions." There was no way of convincing Sofia, so I gave in and let her wear a dress. I would say 90% of the girls at the reception were in jeans {the invitation said casual dress}, but there was only one little girl with a pink dress, a denim jacket, and pink boots.

At the reception I saw many friends from high school, and a lot of people I haven't seen in a very long time. Of course they asked for my baby- what baby? I don't have a baby. She's 4. So I said "You see the one in the pink boots, yup the one dancing over there, that one is Sofia"
Since we can't have a horse, Sofia uses every opportunity she gets to ride one. Oh yeah, the girl in the pink boots is ADORABLE!
The day Sofia outgrows the boots will be a very sad day. I will save these boots, keep them like a treasure because they will always remind me of the cute little girl in the pink boots.
"These boots were made for dancing"

Primary Progam 2010

Sofia's first primary performance was October 30th, 2011.
I ♥ my little sunbeam.

We Rock!!

A couple weeks ago we went to Queen Creek Performing Arts Center's Camp Rock. This must be Sofia's fourth or fifth play. During some of the songs Sofia was dancing with the performers. Ever since I was in The Wizard of Oz, Sofia has had this urge of wanting to be in a play. She's not old enough yet. But as soon as she turns 7 she will be trying out for a play. So we have 3 years to prepare Sofia in everything we can which means- dance lessons, tumbling, and maybe even performing classes. Sofia loves performing, all she needs is the stage.

We ended October the right way.

October went by so fast! We had so many celebrations and they were all wonderful. I think this year Sofia broke a record, she attended 3 trunk-or-treats. But we also learned something about us- we do NOT like chili. Now we now that Chili is a Trunk-or-Treat tradition, so next year we will just skip that part. Anyways, Sofia was a little heart broken at first about her Halloween costume. She really wanted to be Rapunzel or Ariel, but after all the comments she got from random people, I think she finally liked being the Spanish Princess/Flamenco Dancer.

At our ward trunk-or-treat many people told Sofia that her costume went perfect with her. I agree. The skin, the hair, the eyes- it's in her! I think she looked really cute.

On Halloween we went to Jenny's Halloween Party. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! Jenny went all out with this party! The food, the drinks, the games, the decorations, everything was amazing. Thanks Jenny for the memories. I will always remember this Halloween party, and hopefully this becomes a tradition.







So for Halloween we did go trick or treating. It's was our first Halloween in our new neighborhood. We only went for 40 minutes, but we went. There were some houses and kids that scared Sofia- specially a boy who had on the Scream mask. Other than being scared Sofia had a great time. She would knock the door and before people opened she would scream "TRICK OR TREAT!" It was funny. We came home around 7 and I told Sofia it was her turn to give out candy. She loved it. I asked her what she liked better, to give or to receive. She said both. Oh one funny story, this big group of kids came to our house, I'm going to guess they were 11 or 12. Anyways, Sofia tells them to pick out their favorite candy and then she said "But only pick one, because if you get more than one the scary witch will get you." The boys laughed so hard!!! Oh Sofia you make me laugh. We gave out candy until 8:30 and then it was time to get ready for bed. Next year will be a complete different story- I'm sure it will but I am so glad that Halloween 2010 was a success!