Tyra turned 10 today. I made her a pina colada cake:
For a present I sent Kyle to the Girl Scout shop in Salt Lake to pick up a bronze award charm, to go on a girl scout charm bracelet that I got for her. I think she really liked it. 🙂
Category: Our Family
Did you get hurt?
Someone raided the first aid kit today, and went a little bandaid happy:
For the record, she doesn’t have any owies. She just wanted to wear all the bandaids.
Tyra’s Bronze award
I got to go with Tyra to the Recognition of Excellence event for Girl Scouts today. All of my Junior Girl Scouts earned their bronze award and received them at this event. The bronze award is kind of a simplified version of the Gold award, which is Girl Scout’s equivalent of the Eagle rank. The bronze is kind of the first stepping stone to the gold. It is a twenty hour service project done as a troop of Juniors. The juniors in my troop chose to have a Locks of Love event as their bronze project.
We got to have a fancy lunch, before the awards were presented. The bronze award had been given to us when we checked in, and when they got to that part in the program, I got to pin it on Tyra’s vest.
After the program, we walked around and looked at all the displays for the girls that earned their Gold awards. There were some amazing project ideas! We also got to have someone take a picture of us together (proof that I was there 😉 ).
Next step, silver award…..when she is a Cadette!
Three Years Old and Already a Backseat Driver
Kyle and I both have scout related callings for church. He had taken the boys with him to cub scouts this evening, but I needed to be at the church for my calling right when cub scouts ended. We’ve had to do this a lot lately so that both of us can be there to do our jobs, and rather than leave the girls and Adam at home to wait for him to come back we decided that I should load them up and drive to the church. I go inside to take care of my scout business, Kyle comes out with the boys to take the van full of kids home, and that leaves me with the purple car to get home on my own when I’m done.
Tonight was another one of those nights, only when I got in the van to go, Lydia speaks out, “Mommy! Go that way! They church is that way! That way Mommy!” I asked “Which way?” and I looked back at her and she was pointing up the street. So I turned on the van and pulled out into the street in that direction. Then she yells “Watch out for kids!” because the neighborhood kids really like to play out in the street. It was just really funny.
Lydia’s Third Birthday
Grandpa called to wish Lydia a happy birthday today, and Kyle decided to have him call back using his ipad so they could see each other. Lydia loved being able to see Grandpa and Grandma and talk to them. She kept walking around with the ipad, so they probably got to see the whole house during the call. The other kids liked showing stuff off too.
I made her a strawberry rainbow cake. I had seen a picture in an article online of a rainbow cake, and thought “that would be so EASY!” So I decided that that was what I was going to do for her birthday. It was easy and she LOVED it.
She was so excited that today was her birthday. She kept saying “I blow out my happy birthday!” Referring to blowing out the candles on her cake. She also loves her new Minnie Mouse jammies that we got her a couple of days ago. 🙂