Happy Birthday Me and Brenley

The family celebrated my and Brenley's birthday on New Year's Eve at the Nay's. It was very fun to have the combined birthdays. We had Ruth's famous grilled pizza and special salad for dinner. Brenley picked s'mores for dessert and I picked apple pie with vanilla ice cream. We both got fun presents- here are pictures of Brenley with Candy Land game and Elsa and Anna dolls.

My Birthday

I decided that I would do something fun for my birthday and so I took the Nay girls (except Olivia) to the library and then to the mall. We started the time at the mall by going to the pet store and checking out all the dogs. Next was trying out the rides- just posing of course. Then on to Bath and Bodyworks. Since it was my birthday, I told them that they each got $3 to pick something fun to buy. This was a whole new concept to them- that on my birthday I would give them a present! After that store, I asked if they were needing a snack and so we went to Wendy's and got frostys and an order of fries to share. It was a fun few hours, especially for me.

Brenley's present

I thought it would be fun to give Brenley a special present and so I made a set of Nay family peg dolls for her. Dad and I took them over on Monday and no one could wish for any better response. She did love each and every one of them. Ruth had sent me pictures of the girls favorite outfits and of Tyler's work shirt and of Ruth's shirt and those were the templates I used for the clothes. The dolls also had something that represented each person- Ruth had her handprint apron, Savannah had her violin, Evie had some sheet music because she loves to sing, Brenley had ballet slippers and legos, Olivia had a doll, and Baby Nay was "taco-wrapped" in the blanket I had given Ruth. I love having enough time to do something extra like this!  The next morning Brenley quickly woke up so she could show Tyler her peg dolls, and especially the dad one, before he left for work.  I LOVE his picture at the end!