They say it's your birthday....

shout HOORAY!!!

We want to sing to you today!!! 

One year older and wiser too......

Happy Birthday to you!!! 

Sweet Gene Bean had a birthday on Tuesday March 19th!!! She turned 9 years old! Her loves birthdays.....especially hers!!! She woke up early a house full of balloons and decorated with My Little Pony....

I surprised her at lunch with Subway and she took ice cream sandwiches to share with her class at school!!! Then it was party time! We had mom and dad down for dinner!! She requested her favorite dinner ever....LASAGNA!!! So that's what we had lasagna, green salad, corn, and french bread! She had three helping of lasagna! Then it was time for cake, again per request, was chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and chocolate ice cream {ya think this girl likes chocolate much}...

Then it was time for PRESENTS...

{she really thought these were cereal bars, and she was happy about it, but sister was being sneaky}....

She had a great birthday!!! 

We snapped a picture to send Elder Russell! J wanted to show him his "money shirt" but Roxy walked right in front of it as the picture snapped!! Too funny...

So we had to take another one...

J in his "money shirt" {without Roxy in the way}...

Halle is such a sweet little lady!!! She has such a tender heart!!! A few fun facts about Miss Hal...

* she LOVES chocolate {she's munching on a frozen Hershey's chocolate bar as I type, and it's 9:20 a.m.}

* she loves Lego's and putting them together

* she loves to color and make things with paper and tape {lots and lots of tape...I hide the tape}

* she loves to take looooooong, hot baths and play with her dolls in the tub

* she hates to clean her room

* she loves to play with friends

* she loves Just Dance 4 and it pretty good at it

* she is getting super good at reading 

* she loves summer and can't wait for it to get here

* she loves sunshine {doesn't like cloudy days and gloomy skies}

* her favorite color is pink

* she loves high heels and dress up

* her favorite toys right now are Lalaloopsy dolls, Barbie's, and Lego's

* she has learned how to do flips on the tramp

* she likes taking home lunches to school

* she makes her family smile

and 

we love her so very much!!! Love you Gene Bean!!!