Happy 8th Birthday Lyza!

Last Sunday I went to church with the two big boys while all the other sickos stayed home

 After days of being sick and having to postpone her friend party the day before, Lyza started feeling better Sunday afternoon so we whipped up a party for her

 Lyza got some fun gifts

 Henry, its not your party!

 Lyza got right to work reading her new book

 Even though Lyza was feeling better it is still obvious from the video that she was not feeling 100%. She still had a really good time and told us over and over that it was the best day ever. Here are some clips of celebrating with Lyza

Here she is talking to her grandparents on her actual birthday

 Lyza's friend had her birthday party on Lyza's birthday so she got to have another party that day

 Just when we though Lyza was getting better she had a huge coughing fit that took her all the way to urgent care. Turns out she not only had the flu the previous week but also developed pneumonia! Poor girl! The amazing thing is that this week she has been the happiest we can remember. She has had the BEST attitude and has been an absolute pleasure to be around. We love her soooo much!

 We went to the elementary school this week to see Santa

 The kids also did some crafts there

 I guess our boys take novels with them when they go grocery shopping?

 Lyza got nebulized lots at home to get her breathing back under control (that is our joke around here about using the nebulizer)

 We got some snow that Henry was happy to play in

 Nixon also got out there and tried to rebuild the snow man from the previous week

 Lyza got to have her friends birthday party on Thursday evening

They started off playing some Just Dance 

They also played some charades 

 After that it was time to eat some cereal (breakfast themed party)

Then they played musical chairs

Then they decorated some Christmas trees

 Then it was time for presents

Then it was time for cake cinnamon rolls

 We never got a picture with all of the kids because some got there late and some had to leave early. This is the cinnamon roll bunch

 Silly faces!

 Then they played some Christmas Bingo

Happy 8th Birthday Lyza! We love you 💗