Happy 5th Birthday to my Bugaboo!

Opening Presents...FINALLY!

She kept asking if THIS was her fish...


Then she walked in her room and saw the tank...with no fish!

And started dancing around...for about 5 minutes!

A quick picture with Mama

And of course, had to get one with Daddy...they take THE CUTEST pictures EVER!

Then off to buy her fish!!

Dinner at her favorite restaurant, Cafe Veloce...look at how Daddy looks at her!

Blowing out the 5 candles on her Sleeping Beauty cake

And a quick family photo...still can't figure out why Anthony & I are so shiny! ;o)

August 18, 2004 @ 11:19pm, my wonderful, sweet, intelligent, BEAUTIFUL daughter Mikaeyn Joy was born, after 15+ hours of labor. Fast forward to August 18, 2009 and we celebrated her 5th birthday! It was a good day hanging with Daddy in the morning, then coming to work with Mommy for a little bit before getting ready for dinner as a family. We went minimal on presents this year as our child has everything she could want and doesn't really "need" anything else. Grandma & Papa got her a pink princess Bible (which you can see in the last picture, she insisted that she take it to dinner with her) which she was SO excited about, but it doesn't have any pictures! HA! She'll learn to read it very soon! We also got her a fish tank and 2 fish (which one has already died and we acquired 2 more, so now she has 3). She was so happy and is doing such a great job taking care of them. Right now we have Jewelry (grey), Arana (orange) and Rayla (orange and white)...all goldfish. We had a great dinner at our favorite restaurant, Cafe Veloce and Mikaelyn was a very happy birthday girl!

We are so blessed to have gotten this far and are so thankful for the Lord giving us this bright little girl! I don't know where I would be without her and I just can't believe she's already 5!!