Amelia's Birthday and DARE Graduation

Amelia got to celebrate an entire day of getting whats she wanted. It started off with dinner at Pizza Pie Cafe. Luckily, Cooper had earned a free buffet so it wasn't too expensive:

Then we came home and had cake and ice cream (you'd think we couldn't fit anything else in after all that pizza, pasta, and dessert pizza--but we did)! Notice in this picture Amelia has her left hand on something.....

It's her new camera she got for her birthday! It came complete with a little tripod, so she took a picture of herself blowing out her candles. She's already taken about 100 pictures. I'll have to download them and post a few. Or fifty.

A few weeks ago she had her DARE graduation. It's a bigger deal than I thought, they had the student march in while a drum line was playing, the whole Rexburg police department, a few councilmen, etc. I really like the program and what it teaches students. Here Amelia is with her friend Mady:

With her certificate:

This is the guest speaker. He's a football player for the Philadelphia Falcons (?). He's a local, and signed autographs and took pictures for an hour and a half after the graduation was over. And we were the third to last in line. Yes, I love my daughter a great deal.

The rodeo queens MC'ed the whole thing. They were the bling-i-est rodeo anything I've ever seen.

It's been a fun, crazy few weeks and it won't be slowing down....Cooper's day to shine is coming up soon!