Happy Birthday to Sophia!

We had a fun time celebrating Sophia's 7th birthday last week.  So hard to believe she's 7!  Apparently she's been good because she got a visit from the birthday fairy who decorated her bed while she was sleeping

 and left a few gifts for her.

She also had a few gifts for her on the table.

I think she liked what she got (she love the Swan Princess movie Tiffany!)

 Her birthday breakfast included S and 7 shaped pancakes.

This was one of the gifts she got.  It's a book from one of the presenters at the BYU symposium I went to in July.  It's called Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld and is a cute story about a cloud.  I had him sign it for her and he said "thanks for spilling the yogurt" inside since he'd used one of her mishaps to tell a story during his presentation.  She totally cracked up at that and couldn't believe he'd written that for her.  Too cute.

We also took a little something to her classmates.

And she came home with this super cute book from her class.  They'd all drawn a picture of a present they would give her.  Most of them chose a pool or a doll/princess but favorite was the kid who would give her $1,000,000.  That sounds like my kind of friend!

Later that night (after a delicious birthday dinner at Carl's Jr - her request) we went to Lilly's first soccer game.  She loved it!  She's excited to be on her best little friend Sydnee's (who thought it would look cool to be taking a drink in this picture) team.

 Ready to play!

 Action shot.

 After the game we finished the birthday celebrations with some ice cream cake.

 She was excited to eat it!

We've finally decided that it's too much work to do a party every year so we've decided to alternate between parties with friends and a family celebration. She was lucky enough to have a few friends over for cake to celebrate with us though.

One last random shot of the cute birthday girl.  We love you Sophia!