Yes, it is that time a year again when we get to celebrate having Brooklyn in our lives another year! I love how close her birthday is to Thanksgiving (sometimes on!), because I get to reflect on how thankful I am for her in my life. I know that I am suppose to be the mother but this little girl has taught me more about life and love than I could ever teach her. She is my pillar of strength and how I am able to deal with everything else in my life. I know that she is special to everybody in our little family. Her little brother has to give her hugs every time he wakes up. Brooklyn is the best daughter, sister, niece, granddaughter, and cousin in the world.
This year since we were at my parents for Thanksgiving, Brooklyn was able to have A LOT of cousins for her birthday party and one of her cousins actually has the same birthday so we had a two for one situation. Because so many of the children were so young we only had one activity but all the kids loved it. We made our own gingerbread houses and while not everything turned out how we hoped, the kids had were happy has long as we kept the bowls of candy full. We had balloons for everybody and honestly this was proabably the hit of the party. The kids just ran around for about twenty minutes playing with balloons. All of Brooklyn's cousins were so great and caring towards her and her cousin Maddox. They both cashed in on gifts ( and money, apparently if your a cute four year old girl and ask your grandpa for "twenty bucks" he will give it to you!). Thank you to all of our family for making Brooklyn's 4th birthday so memorable and fun for her. We love our family and Brooklyn cries daily to be able to play with her cousins.
