Victoria turns 12!!! WOW

I can hardly believe that Tori turned 12 this year. She has finished her first year of middle school and now she is going to be going to Young Womens! I am soo young I just don't see how it is possible that I have a 12 year old! :) We do have a theme going on this year with the kids birthdays, and the theme is........ see how sick you can get on your birthday. Victoria did a good job at carrying on this tradition that Isabelle started and was throwing up, coughing and sneezing on her birthday! NO FUN poor girl. We did a family birthday get together the day before her birthday, and then we had to wait until the day after her birthday to do cake and ice cream with friends! Victoria had a fun surprise for her birthday that she didn't get to find out until two days after. Our neighbor surprised Victoris and took her and Alexis (her daughter) to Florida to visit Disney world, Universal studios etc. They left on June 10th and won't be back until June 20th. I have gotten a lot of pictures from them and Tori is good to call every morning and sometimes at night depending on how tired she is. Isabelle and Brenden have been very good not to be jealous of her. They have even admitted to missing her, and I think Victoria is a little homesick. Victoria will return from Florida and be home two days and then she will leave to Young Women's camp and on a trek. I am a leader in Young Women's but b/c Isaac is so young, I am not going to camp this year. After Tori gets home from camp she will have two days and the we are packing up and going to Utah for 3 weeks. It will be a crazy busy summer for her!! I am so proud of Victoria and her accomplishments! She is wonderful big sister, and a great example to her siblings. She does well in school, and gets excellent grades (she doesn't get that from me)! I am proud of the young women she has grown into, and the values she has. She is a good example to her friends and is good to stand for what she believes! She has always been strong willed, but I now believe b/c of this she is going to go far in life!! We love you Victoria!! And remember just b/c you will be a teenager next year, it doesn't mean you have to act like one!!! :)



Alexis (this is who tori went to Florida with), Brenden, Tori, and Isabelle!!
We decided she didn't need a character cake this year, so we just let her pick out the flavor and we wrote her name on it! :)

So we could keep the sickness from spreading we cut a big piece of cake for Victoria and put candles on it, so when she blew out the candles it didn't get her sickness on the whole cake!! :D

She still wasn't feeling a 100% good this day, but by the next day she was feeling much better!