SAMANTHA TURNED 6!!!!!

Happy Birthday Samantha!

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I can't believe that my little Samantha is already 6. It seriously blows my mind to think that I have a 6 yr old, a first grader. I am not old enough for that. But I am loving it. Samantha has grown up so much and matured a ton in the last little while. She is such a great helper with Mason, Lu and Chance. She loves to love her brothers and sister. Samantha loves to dress up in fancy clothes and wear makeup and look beautiful. Anything to look and feel more grown up and Sammi loves it. She loves to hang out with her Dad. Really anything that involves Ben, she is totally in. She is so sweet and getting to be so grown up. I am sad and excited for her to go to first grade this year. I am sad because I won't have my little buddy with me during the day. She is my mini me, and it is so fun to have her around me. But I am so excited for her to go and learn so much in school. That is one thing that Samantha just loves . . . . school. She loves to learn new things and is always so excited to come home and tell me all about it. I love her so much and am so grateful that she is my daughter and I am humbled by the responsibility I have to raise her and teach her and be her mom. When I was pregnant with Samantha, around 20 weeks, I had to have an emergency circlage. I was having some spotting and they ran some tests and thought that I was going into pre term labor and were worried that if they didn't do the circlage I was lose the baby. I hate to think about what would have happen if they didn't catch it or if I didn't get the circlage. Samantha has been such a blessing in my life. She teaches me so many things every day as a mom and just as a person, that I am so grateful for her. I love her so much and hope that she had an awesome 6th birthday. Happy Birthday Sammi Sue!!!! I love you!!!

Here were the birthday festivities for Sam's big day. When she woke up we had her birthday breakfast, which was pancakes, as to her request. Then we gave her her present. She had been wanting an itouch like Mason's, but with a purple cover. Once we gave it to her, she was off with Mason playing their games and being really quiet. That gave us some time to get ready for her little friend party. She wanted to invite some friends over for a slip and slide party. It was so much fun, and pretty low key. How much more low key can you get than a home made slip and slide, pizza, cookies and ice cream cones. PERFECT!!! And the kids loved it. After 1 1/2 hours, and the parents were starting to show up the kids were so sad when we told them we were turning it off. After Ben yelled he was turning it off, all of them at once ran and slid down together. It was so cute. So after the party, cleaning up and playing with some of her new toys (with Martha, Alice and Mason) we ran some errands with Heather and her kids and Jessica. We took Sam to pick out a present, some fun new art supplies. This girl loves to paint draw, play with stickers, anything artsy. So art supplies were great. Then off to cafe rio for her dinner, which she requested. It was such a fun day, and I think Samantha had a blast!

(I just had to add a quick cute story. So just over a week before her birthday Ben and I and the kids were in target shopping. Samantha saw a little girl that she knows from the gym. Actually I'm not quite sure how well she knows her, but she plays with her at the gym, so there you go. Anyways, she saw this little girl at target and went up to her and invited her to come to her birthday party. So then the next morning before we went to the gym, Samantha was writing a little invitation to give to this little girl. I guess she gave it to her, cause when I came to pick my kids up, there was a reply from the little girl and her mom. So Samantha had a new little friend that she met and invited to the party. This is just exactly how she is. She is my little social butterfly. She is always running around talking to everyone. It is so cute!)