WOW! Did I just say 17th birthday? It's so cliche, but it seems like yesterday I was looking into her newborn eyes thinking she was the most beautiful thing I had ever laid eyes on.
Shylee is loads of fun! She is a super fun big sister.
Sometimes when I come home and she hasn't done her chores,
I will get after her and she sheepishly admits that she was
playing with her brothers.
Then her brothers will run downstairs and yell
"Shy are you going to come back upstairs and GET US ?!!!"
How can I get mad at that?
In fact, sometimes she is so crazy with them that I find myself yelling at them to settle down, and then have to think about how blessed we are that our 17 year-old daughter is playing with our 9,7 and 4 year old boys!!
She hunts,
out fishes us all,
and is a camper extraordinaire!
I mean c'mon, how many girls make their mom take a picture of them holding a deer heart? :) No Mamby Pamby Land here!!
She is uber responsible.
My statement about Shylee is that we could leave her on the mountain
with all the boys with a shoe lace and piece of tape
and she would have built a shelter, prepared "all natural" and "organic" meals :) and have had and ALL the boys making their "leaf" beds each morning.
She is that responsible :)
She is stubborn, but when the light goes on in her pretty lil' head, it's a beautiful thing to behold :)
She is a righteous young woman. Kids these days face a lot of resistance in keeping high standards and morals. They become the odd balls at school when they aren't the ones swearing or having moral issues.
Shylee has embraced the fact that she does stand out, and recognizes that it is definelty a positive thing. I love that she raises her sights and ideals and recognizes the spirit. She is becoming such a lovely little lady.
8 comments:
Wow she is so grown up!! Look how pretty she is!! :) Happy Birthday Shy!! LOVE LOVE LOVe the last picture!
Thanks Mel! I love it too!
I can't believe Shylee is 17! It's just nuts. Tell her she's gorgeous from me, would you? I love the picture of her in her purple winter hat and the one where she's trying to smooch Hunter! So cute. I can't wait until you guys are in the same state as us! Yay! :)
happy birthday pretty girl! i remember quite well when she was that sweet baby! she is grown into her own beauty hasn't she!
Happy Birthday Shy! I can't believe that it's been over 17 years since your mom told us she was pregnant. She took me on a walk at City Creek to tell me and I was mad that she waited...I think she was about 9 weeks or so. It was so long to wait to tell us. We were excited to have you be part of our family then and we can't wait to have you closer next year. We love ya!
I love all of you! Thanks for commenting! Cal~ That's funny because we called your folks and told them the day we found out that we were expecting:) I didn't even remember that?! Mellissa~ We will be taking advantage of the fact that we are in the same state as you! We will be VISITING!!!!! Love you all!
Happy Birthday Shylee!! Wow.. only one more year til you can rule the roost!!
I haven't been blog hopping for a while and I missed this. Happy Birthday, Shy. She's so stinkin cute. Wow, 17 that's crazy. I love that she is such a good girl. It's so nice to have that example in our family. Love you, Shy. -- Jes
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