Charlie’s 9!

    We've got a birthday girl in the house! Charlie has been anticipating her 9th birthday for many months and it's finally here. She's had a great day and was happy about all her gifts and spending the day with her best girl-friend, Kat. 

This was Sunday and Charlie was all ready for church.

    Put this photo below in parentheses because we're still not sure what we're doing with our car but I'm feeling confident our car is fixed and back to being reliable and worth keeping so these two bikes may not be needed for financial help in buying a new car but I wanted to make a note of this little tidbit for future reference.
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These are the bikes a friend gifted us to sell to help purchase a new car.

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    Now back to the birthday girl and her great day.

Balloons are a must!

Always funner to spend your special day with a good friend.

Gifts galore. 

One of her 'fun' gifts from mom and dad.

Her own personal jello cheesecake.

Really putting some thought into her birthday wish.

    So aside from Charlie's 9th birthday celebration, we've had a pretty simple week. We do have the Alpine Days parade, rodeo, carnival, and fireworks to enjoy tomorrow but we'll save that post for next weekend. 

    Like I mentioned at the top, we got our car back from the mechanics and it's driving great, better than last time, so I'm hopeful we won't have to replace it. The repairs also cost quite a bit less than we were originally quoted and with Greg's 28 hours of overtime on his recent paycheck, we didn't even have to take out the last little bit of our savings, bonus! 

    And only 5 more days until school starts, yuck!