She's 1!!

  Well her party was today......technically she won't be 1 for a couple days, but we celebrated today!

She was sooo pretty and happy, giggled and clapped, but no pictures please!  She's a modest little princess and we vowed to keep her identy a secret!  We don't want any little fellas showing up at her door just yet. ~giggle~

Thanks Mommy for letting me be part of this wonderful day, for letting my set up this delicate, "Faux Paris Party" for your princess.  She truly is an amazing little girl.

What was the best thing about this party? Well the birthday girl of course!  The second best thing?  I got to do it with my Wonderful Anika!!

Dealing with a germaphobic mommy is pretty wonderful too~~~since we understand each other so well! Yay, someone who actually washes and uses germX as much as me!!! She is also sweet, kind and generous. (Oh very funny, don't forget that!) Doesn't hurt either that her hubby will work his little butt off and doesn't get mad when I make him was his hands. (Yay,love it!)

OK, so there was a bunch of great stuff happening today.....but this mommy LOVES pink as much as I do!!! How cool is that?  I could use everything in any shade of pink I wanted....woooo hoo!  Does life get any better than that?  We even had pink lemonade, now tell me I haven't died and just gone to heaven ~Giggle~

Happy Pink Saturday

~~Wendy~~

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Good News!!

Well today a very special thing happened in our family.  We got up early, (earlier than we would have had to being it was the first day of school) and went to town.  We met our lawyer and then headed to the courthouse.

With the strike of Judge Wilson's pen......Anika Hope got the use of her name legally! 

This might not seem like a big deal to some, but it is, a big deal to us.

She is not our child by blood and we have only had her in out home for a little over a year, but she wants to be "ours" so bad and this is a step in the right direction.

I wish I could go into greater detail, but you know some matters have to be private for such BIG reasons.  To put them on a public blog for the whole world to see would only be displaying a part of her life .....I don't want to do that.

So, she got to walk into that high school today, with legal papers in her hand proclaiming...

"I am Anika Hope"  She was so proud and hubby and I  by her side were kinda proud too!

We have been "mom" and "dad" for a long time and she has been our daughter......but today was extra special because she signed into school like our "new born" with a name we gave her and she was excited to get.

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Happy new Birthday to you!