Early Mother's Day...

After the birthday party, we unloaded the gifts at home, then headed up to mom & dad's place for a nice relaxed BBQ! What a great way to end the evening....well, almost end the evening. When we got home, we let Charlie unwrap all her gifts and she'll be busy tomorrow writing Thank You Cards for ALL of them!

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Gifts Charlie made for me at Day Care and Kindergarten..LOVE THEM!

Made at Kindergarten

Walking the doggies

Mom & Dad's back yard..

I'm SIX!

The 6th birthday party...

Charlie and her cousins Marilyn (May 3rd turned six) & Claire (May 10th turned 13).

The gang's all here...

Lining up for cake and singing happy birthday.

Dean, Wee Bee & Nicki

Matthew, Charlie & Madison

Charlie and her teacher Kasie.

The cake...gotta love Costco.

Charlie &  Bella

Chloe, Charlie & Jayden

Diana, Charlie & Gillian

Matthew, Amy, Wyatt & Olivia

Charlie and Olivia

Elisabeth, Charlie & Turner

Elisabeth & Charlie

Charlie & Trisitan

Abby & Charlie

Orion and Charlie

Megan, Charlie, Emily (Gizmo) and Kaitlyn

Charlie, Olivia & Ashlyn

And then she was six...

Can't hardly believe she's SIX!!! Seems like just yesterday I was watching the end of CSI and Dr. Korman told me at 10pm would should get serious about pushing and then she popped out at 11:21pm! How completely blessed are we? So very, VERY grateful for this precious girl of ours! What a gift! We love you more than life itself Charlotte Frances! Today we spoiled her rotten! Breakfast, lunch and dinner out. The Avengers, haircut and fancy braid, her new bike and dinner with Grandma & Grandpa! What an awesome day it was!!! Life is GREAT!

Dessert at Red Robin for dinner.

The Avengers...Kinda freaked her out when The Hulk first showed up.

Getting her hair washed in the big girl sink for the first time.

Awesome special birthday braid.

Awesome Bee Cakepops from my friend Cindi!

Dinner with Grandma & Grandpa.

Building her Lego Friends from Grandma & Grandpa Birthday money.

Gift card from Rose to her favorite restaurant, Red Robin!

Fun Scrabble Junior and 550 piece puzzle from Grandpa Cina!

Hiding her eyes waiting for her big surprise!

Yahoo, new bike!

Breakfast at Longbottoms.