Princess Lily's Royal Ball!

It is so hard to believe that TOMORROW my baby girl will be FOUR years old!  It seems like just yesterday I was going into the hospital a week OVERDUE to be induced!  There is a part in the movie The Princess Diaries where Queen Clarisse is told that she is late and she responds with, "A Queen is never late.  Everyone else is simply early!"  This must be Lily's motto!  We, as her family, were early and she came into this world right on time!  She has graced us with her royal presence ever since!   She has been a true blessing in our family since the day she made her grand entrance into this world!  So in Royal fashion, we held a ball to celebrate this beautiful Princess!  The only Princes that were allowed to come were Daddy and Logan!  We had such a great time!  Lily was so excited and she was purely happy during the party!  I love to make my family feel special on their birthday!  I really feel Lily felt special as we celebrated her big day with her friends! 

 Lily is such a smart young lady!  She catches on to whatever is being taught so quickly.  She is always asking how things work and why!  She wants to understand everything!  Most of the time I leave a conversation with her deeply thinking about some gospel principle that I hadn't thought about before!  She has a thirst for learning and a love of reading, especially the scriptures!

 Lily has a love of music and dance.  She brightens our home with her beautiful songs and dances.  She will dance for hours.  She always asks for music and will dance and dance!  And if you are ever so lucky, she will sing you an original song!  Her originals are usually about love and making good choices!  Some of her favorite songs are, Brightly Beams and I Love to see the Temple!  My favorite song to have her sing to me is, I came to Earth!  I hope she will always strive to increase this talent!

 Lily has such a loving heart!  Out of the blue she will give me butterfly kisses and tell me how much she loves me and that I am the best mother on the earth!  She wont go to bed without giving her baby brother kisses and hugs!  She notices when people are sad and wants to make them happy!  She is kind to younger friends and helps them when they need the help! 

 Lily is a friend to everyone!  She doesn't care who you are she likes you!  Once you are her friend, you are always her favorite person!  She thinks of everyone as her best friend and her most cherished friend!  I have so much to learn from this sweet girl!

 The beautiful princesses dancing to princess music!  We had three Rapunzels, two Cinderellas, two Snow Whites, and a Barbie Princess!  It was so much fun!

 Decorating their Princess Crowns

Who doesn't love a Princess swinging a Bat!  So just a cute story to remember...Once Lily hit the pinata,  Daddy told her, "Wow!  Home Run!" (meaning she hit it great!)  Well, Lily heard home run and took off running the bases!  Daddy was too proud!  I guess all the baseball games in the back yard have paid off!

  I just  love to watch little kids open presents!  It always starts with one or two kids standing close wanting to help and then all the kids end up right around the birthday kid! 

 Cake time!  

We love our Lily so much!  We are so blessed to have her in our family!  She is such a joy to be around!  I look forward to watching her grow up...just not too fast!