The Big 12!

Victoria has been ready to leave primary and advance to Young Women's at church for a while now. She finally turned 12 yesterday and can go to YW this Sunday. Since Jason teaches in Primary and I am in the Presidency, the rest of us are in Primary, so she will be the only one not it- weird!

Some members of the Beehive class, the YW class she will be entering, came by and gave her a YW necklace, her Personal Progress Book (where she can keep track of the goals she makes and completes while in YW), and some calendar information.  This Friday she gets to participate in a special joint activity with the boys at a corn maze!

The necklace is a torch surrounded by the motto, "Stand for Truth and Righteousness". The torch represents the light of Christ, inviting all to come unto Him.

For her birthday celebration we had 5 friends come over for a taco bar. After eating, opening presents, and doing the cake, we all went to the Summit to swim, minus Austin who still has a cast. He was very excited to go to his school for their movie night with his friend. That worked out pretty well for him. He felt like a big shot off on his own at his school for the movie. After enjoying the water slide, lazy river, and free swim, we came back to the house and watched Maleficent. It was an easy party! She got no toys for gifts, which she tells me now that she is "done with toys!" I told her she can still play with the ones she has, but just not get any new ones.

Eating tacos: Bethany, Kajul, Bella, Makayla, Victoria, and Olivia.

Karissa, Austin, Kaleb (Austin's movie buddy), and Erik.

Erik helping pull out candles.

Waiting to go down the slide.

Kiddie pool

Adult pool

We brought a ball for some games.

 She still likes to play with her American Girl dolls with Karissa, but she mostly does their hair. She does play with shopkins or Lego's with her siblings here and there, but not as much as before. She's definitely growing up! I would say that her favorite things to do now are crafts, draw, and hair! She loves to do hair and learn new hairstyles by watching, YouTube videos, especially Cute Girls Hairstyles. She's much better than I am, seriously! She can do just about whatever braid there is.

On her birthday, she had a usual day with orchestra, very early, and some quizzes at school. Quizzes meant she didn't have much homework that night, which was nice. We still had to get take out for dinner with a coupon at TGI Fridays since Karissa has cheer practice and we wouldn't have had time to eat out, as she wanted.  We sang quickly to Victoria before Karissa left and she opened presents leisurely later on. Her main gift was a new phone, or new to her. Her phone from last year had a water accident, but she really did a good job taking care of it, just one mishap in August. At least she was brave enough to pluck it out of the toilet! Three days in rice didn't cut it though. She has waited patiently, somewhat, for her new one. She didn't abuse the use of her old one, let's hope she's good at that again!

The big day!

Happy for her phone back!

Happy 12th birthday, Victoria!

Last day in Primary!