~ Gracieland and Abbyville ~ A Beautiful Intersection: Happy Birthday to Me!!! (A Month Early!!)

I know, I know... it has been way too long. I have heard about it enough and as I promised, here is an updated post. To offer excuses as to my absense for so long would only shine a negative light on my mommy and daddy that I would just rather not do (I am thinking about my next meal here). Regardless, I sincerly apologize and hope to be better in the future.

This weekend was just next to perfect. I got to see a bunch of people that I have not seen in sooooo long and I missed them very much. Fist thing was we left on Friday to get my mommy to Angie's house for a surprise baby shower. (for those who have not read previous entries by yours truly, I am expecting a sister in a few weeks. We are going to call her Abigail Faith.) Anyway, back to the shower. We did so good keeping this a secret that it really did surprise mommy. We even were visiting my Grandma and Grandpa before when my Aunt Debbie showed up and picked my Grandma and Aunt up to go to the party. Mommy was none the wiser. So, like I mentioned, we were at Grandma and Grandpa's where I got to play with my cousins Lark, Lexi and Rory. They are so much fun to play with that I hated having to leave. But I had to cause mommy's surprise party. So we drop mommy off and daddy and I go with my friends Olivia, Heath and Kennedy to the playground at Chick-fil-a and had a BLAST!!! All I can say is I loved the white race car and I played in it the whole time. I play so long and so hard that by the time we got back to the hotel room I was practically begging mommy and daddy to put me to bed.

The next day, I had a birthday party (a bit early) at MyGym. This is totally awesome!!! You can see in the pictures below that me and friends and family got to play with some really cool stuff. I loved it and hope I can do it again. I was also so happy that I got to see my family all together in one place. I loved it, I loved it, I loved it!!!

After that, we went to Angies again where I took a monster nap and then played outside. Finally it was time to open my presents and I was so happy with all the stuff I got. I can not wait to play with everything. My family and friends were very nice to me and I am thankful. My favorite present though was my big red car. I now have to cars, my little one from the birthday cake and the big one. I think I put a picture of it below.

Today, I went to church and got to see even more of my friends that I have not seen in forever!!! My daddy's friend was getting his liscence to preach and we were there to hear his sermon. He did a really good job and I could tell my daddy was proud. (although, his pride might have been in that I finally calmed down at the end of the service).

So, between all the food, presents and friends and family, I can easily say this was one of my finest weekends. I think we should do this every year.

With that, I should be getting to bed. It is back to the grind tomorrow, where I have to go to school and play all day long. I have such a rough life.

Sweet dreams and blessings,
The Manchi

Me and my cousin Lark visiting my Grandma and Grandpa.

My mommy had a surprise Baby Shower this weekend. This is the cake Heather made.

This is all of my friends and family starting off my birthday party. This was totally cool.

"I'm a model, you know what I mean, and I do my little turn on the catwalk..."

That is Kennedy, Emily and Olivia getting their swing on.

Heath showing his daddy how to climb the wall.

That is his daddy not getting as high.

Even Lark is getting really high.

An attempt at a group photo. Lark, Lexi and Rory are into it. Conner is trying to scare the camera man and Heath is being hidden my me (who would rather not be sitting on the ball anyway!!)