Happy 11th Birthday, Lydia!!

Monday was Lydia's 11th birthday.  We started our celebration on Sunday by doing what she wanted to do for our family night for the week - going to a corn maze.  She hadn't been to one in awhile, so she was very excited to go.  It was lots of fun and according to my dad, took us 1 hour and 8 minutes to complete! :)  Because of a coupon, we had a free medium pizza for dinner.  After dinner, we headed over to get some ice cream from Dairy Queen.  Lydia is the sweet tooth queen in our family, so she was MORE than happy to get some ice cream the day before her birthday. :)

She chose stroganoff and peas for her birthday dinner on Monday.  It was delicious!   

We will be celebrating tomorrow night again when we have Daniel and Lydia's family birthday party.  This is a big birthday week for us.  Lydia's 11th birthday was Monday, my cousin Elizabeth's 30th birthday was Tuesday, her brother Stephen's 15th birthday is today, and Daniel's 14th birthday is on tomorrow!

Here are some pictures from our celebration on Monday with just the six of us.

Molly's Christmas dress from American Girl. 

She wanted this SO bad, so she's very excited in this picture. :)

And Kit's desk, also from American Girl.  She saw this at the American Girl Place when they went in August, and she LOVED it, I was so excited that she got it! :)

Clothes that she picked out for herself on her birthday.  She was pretty excited!  The blue shirt says, "Ice Cream Dream."

A view of the inside of the desk.

Becca got her a necklace that has a key on it. 

She is holding it up in the picture, but you can't see it very well.

Apple pie, made by Sams. :)

Happy 11th Birthday, Lydia!

Beautiful roses that she picked out for herself!

We love you, Lydia and hope that you had a wonderful day!!!!

Love,
Hannah (for Mom, Dad, Becca, Daniel, & Bella too!)