Ella is double digits!

I really can't believe I have a daughter that is a decade old! Time has flown by since she started kindergarten.We had a pretty low key day as it was a school day, but I hope she still felt special!

Breakfast Birthday donuts are a must!

She went to school and her Grandma Speers went to lunch with her at school and then she came home and wanted me to make her a pasta dish, so we waited for dad and had dinner and then opened presents.

She got some rollerblades she's been wanting.

Her grandma and grandpa Speers bought her a Polaroid camera which she was very excited about.

Just like her mama, she requested a cookie cake for her birthday! YUM!

We played games and she got to stay up late. I am very lucky that she is so easy going. She is generally happy and doesn't need a whole lot of fuss to make things great. She is always reading. I swear she can read a 400 page book in a couple hours and want to read another and another right after. I am so grateful for her thirst for knowledge. She always gets straight A's and if she gets less than a 100, then she sees room for improvement. I am grateful that she loves school and that she always wants to be better. She does loves beanie boos still, and the Land of Stories books are her obsession right now. I can't even tell you how many times she has read that series, but she probably can't either. Her brother Cavin is officially taller than her and she is trying to accept the fact that she is the shortest in class, and may not be super tall. She keeps waiting for her growth spurt but in the mean time she is making a list of all the benefits of being shorter :) haha, that's my Ella. She is so kind and giving and always wanting to make others happy. She still loves to sleep and will take a good nap for me, even if she pretends to not like it, because it is no longer cool! The only thing I hope I can get her moving on in the next 10 years is cleaning her room! We sure are grateful for her lead in our family to her siblings, despite her often less than cleanly room ;)