Lydia's 5th Birthday Party

I CANNOT believe I have a 5 year old... and she is going to Kindergarten in the fall!!! We are so blessed to have her in our family. She is smart, spunky, and definitely keeps us on our toes.

Here are some things she loves right now!

She loves pink and purple.
She loves princesses.
She recently stopped sucking her thumb and gave up her beloved blanket with little encouragement from us.
She loves being around friends and is very social.
She loves cookies and baking things with me.
She loves visiting family not close by and misses them as soon as we leave!

We let her have a little friend party at our house this year and so she chose to have her theme , Doc McStuffins. Here are some photos!

Penelope the Boy Cat

For Lydia's 5th birthday I knew I wanted to get her a kitty. We had finally moved into our first house in March so it worked out perfectly! Yes, I'm allergic, but I loved kitties growing up and I wanted Lydia to be able to have one of her own.

I found this kitty through a friend and they didn't have any girls.. only 2 boys. Lydia was VERY adamant about wanting a girl cat so we just told her it was a girl (even though it was a boy).

SO now we have a boy cat named Penelope AKA Penny :) She was 8 weeks old when we got her!

Easter 2015

Usually for Easter I buy the girls' cute new dresses for church and we get all dolled up! WELL.. this year since it was on conference Sunday I kind of didn't do any of that haha. We had also just moved into our new house a month prior to this so we have been busy!!

Easter weekend Adam's family was able to come visit and STAY in our new house! I cooked a big Easter dinner (and a ham!) for the first time and I'm pretty proud of being able to pull it off :)

Here's a few photos!

Adam did some Easter egg decorating with Lydia!

Then of course we had to do a small Easter egg hunt.

Sunday Best

After New Year's we had a "second" Christmas because my sister, Nat, and her family came into town from Reno!

We took advantage of everyone in the Sunday best and got some photos :)