We are thankful for...

With Thanksgiving approaching SO quickly (I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S ALREADY THAT TIME OF YEAR!), I want to make sure Riley truly understands what Thanksgiving is. I love Christmas but I hate how Thanksgiving just seems to get passed over when it's such an important holiday. So today we had a talk about Thanksgiving and created a Thankful Turkey. Each day we will write one thing Riley is thankful for on a feather and add it to her turkey...

She was so excited she wanted to do two things so of course that was fine with me!

Daddy and I are doing a Thankful Jar every night at supper, (an idea I got from my friend Miranda:) will share about this more later...

Birthday fun

We celebrated Riley's third birthday last weekend! I can't believe my baby is three! Everyday I see something new in her that makes her more and more like a little girl instead of a toddler. It's exciting yet at the same time sad to think about her growing up. It seems that these past three years have flown by and before we know it she'll be in school, a teenager, and standing in a wedding dress! Ok, gotta stop before the tears start flowing!! Riley, your Mommy loves you more than you'll ever know and you'll always be my little sunshine!

Flower girl in training

Riley will be a flower girl in her uncle's wedding in a few weeks. We've been doing some practicing. Here she's throwing "flower petals," (AKA-foam letters) while wearing her dress.