Ella's Birthday Fun Week!

Ella was very excited to turn 8! In our religion that is when you are baptized and she was so excited to finally become old enough to become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Although we are waiting a couple weeks to baptize her, she had a fun week. On her birthday she had to go to school (or as she says, she got to go to school), then we had gymnastics, and then we came home and had dinner and a little party! 

Traditional breakfast donut!

 We had her favorite baked potatoes and strawberries for dinner and we opened presents!

She got some new scriptures, a rainbow loom book, earrings, shoes, dresses, a willow tree, a scripture bag, and a new room make over! That was a lot of work, complete with new wall paint, a desk, bench, new bedspread, pillows, lamp, bookshelf, all sorts of fun/expensive things ;)

The last couple years she has asked for a "scookie" and so that is what we have had!

The night after her birthday was her 2nd grade school play, Seussical the Musical! She was very excited because she got to do the splits at the end of her classes performance ;)

 Her grandma and Aunt Natalie came to watch with our family! She was excited for the support!

Their class was supposed to wear silly hats but only a few remembered. Ella was in the China hat ;)

I tried to get her split at the end, but we weren't necessarily close to the front. She had a good time and I am glad she thought it was great. I am unimpressed with the music program at their school, but she had fun and the kids are cute! 
The next night on Wednesday was her first "Achievement Days" at church which is a group for the 8-11 year old girls and it was a mother daughter Luau. She kept counting down the minutes. I was glad I got to go with her to her first one! She kept saying, this is the best thing ever!

 A few things about Ella now that she's 8! She is 69 pounds and 49 inches. She loves to dance and sing and is in gymnastics. If she is not dancing or playing Just Dance, she is reading. That girl could read all day, I get her ten chapter books from the library each week and within two days she is finished! It is so hard to keep up with her! She read the entire Rainbow Fairy Magic Series which has over 90 books! She loves school and does really well. She has gotten a 100% on all her spelling tests and I assume from all the reading she sees how things are spelt. She loves strawberries, potatoes,and mint chocolate chip ice-cream. She is a fairly obedient child, but hates to clean up her room. She is by far my messiest child. She is always writing or drawing notes for people, and she is pretty creative. She is happy to play by herself, even amongst many friends. She takes FOREVER in the shower, I think a good 30 min at least! She is super slow in the morning, but we manage to make it to school on time every morning because THANKFULLY like her mother, she hates to be late. She is very logical and works things out in her mind, but with that she can also be pretty emotional. We can hardly watch any movies because she ends up crying because it is too sad, or she is too happy. Oh dear! We love our girl and she is growing so fast!