Sophia is 8 years old!

Sophia turned 8 on the 21st of December.  Since her birthday falls so close to Christmas, we decided not to have a party with friends since it would be unlikely that any of them could have come.  We are thinking of having a "friend" party for her sometime in January.  We normally would skip it, but the last 2 birthdays have been family affairs since we were in TX and all of her friends had moved away.  Now we live in a neighborhood chock full of kids and the girls are so excited to have "real" parties again.  Hannah didn't get one this year as we were still unpacking and the house was in no shape for company, but Jules did, so of course, Sophia wants one too.

She had a great time.  Her birthday fell on a Sunday this year and that was nice because usually when birthdays are a week day, we wait until Daddy gets home to open presents, but since it was a weekend (and Nick was on leave as well) she got to open her presents in the morning, hence the nightgown she is wearing in her present pictures, lol.  Sophia loves cars, specifically race cars so we had the great idea of putting a race track on her cake.  We decided that we could use 2 rounds and make an "8" shaped cake with a figure eight race track.  She can't have artificial coloring due to her migraine headaches, so we went with a chocolate frosting, which made a perfect "dirt" track.  She loved her cake.

One of her favorite presents was a shell that Hannah got out of Granny's yard on her 8th birthday, that Hannah gave to her.  She was so pleased with that shell, as she admired it often.  We got her an Our Generation Doll for her big present.  She is always wishing she had curly hair, so we chose a doll with dark hair like her, and curly too.  The doll she got is a flower girl, and that is only fitting as Sophia will be a flower girl in her Aunt Leanna's wedding in April.  (Now I need to figure out how to get her hair to hold a curl!)  Some other gifts she loved were a Junie B. Jones book from Aunt Lizzie, and some snowman pajamas from Granny and Paw Paw.  The only thing Sophia loves more than cars are snowmen!  She was also a lucky girl and got a frog webkinz that I had tucked away a year ago saving for a special day.  

Here are some pictures of her with her gifts, her birthday cake, and a couple I was able to get of her in her birthday outfit by the tree.  Enjoy!!

Sophia and her Alexis doll

Here she is with her other presents:

Sweet Sophia in front of the tree:

And here she just had to have a silly one!

And here is her birthday cake and a picture of her blowing out her candle!

Thanks so much for sharing her special day with us!