Caelan is 7!

Caelan's birthday was yesterday, which also happened to be the last day of school (what a great present, right). I took donuts into her class for a birthday treat. She chose pizza for dinner, which we ate at the park. Then we had cake and ice cream and she opened up some presents. Overall it was a nice day. She really wants a birthday party with friends (she's been telling me this since before Ben's birthday in April). So, we are having a little party at our house next week. She invited her whole class at school (a couple months ago she went to a birthday party for a boy in her class - they had invited the whole class too, and Caelan was the ONLY one that came), so I'm thinking that maybe a handful of them will actually be able to come (you always run the risk with these kinds of things - I might have a house FULL of 25 6-7 year olds next week...YIKES).

Some fun things about Caelan:
* She is a great student and loves to learn (her teachers always rave about her)
* She LOVES to swim and play in the water
* She is pretty fearless (unless it comes to taking out a splinter) - she loves roller coasters and speeding on 4-wheelers and climbing up to the tip-tops of trees
* Her favorite foods are lasagna, raviolis, pizza, macaroni and cheese, watermelon and corn
* Her favorite color is red
* She is a big helper and is really responsible
* She likes to earn money doing jobs and then spend it at the dollar store or garage sales (she LOVES garage sales)
* She wants to be a teacher when she grows up
* She is pretty picky about vegetables (she must get that from her Dad..HE HE HE)
* Her favorite animal is a horse
* She loves music time at church and school and learns and remembers the words to songs really easily
* She has lost 4 teeth
* She loves to play with her brothers and sister
* She has the most awesome head of thick, blonde hair (and gets comments about it everywhere we go)
* She likes to ask questions and understand why and how things are the way they are
* She is a fan of the TV show, Psych
* She is a great reader
* She is a serious negotiator and has been since she was a little tot
* Her current favorite movie is Hercules (she can almost quote it word for word)
* She is very teachable
* She is a genuinely GOOD girl: wanting to make right choices and do the things that she knows are right
* She has a growing testimony about her Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ

We LOVE her to pieces and could not ask for better oldest child in our family. Happy Birthday Caelan!