Bell's Birthday Morning...with brownish hair

Our 11 year old woke up this morning very excited to start her day! Garth and I were already up making French Breakfast Muffins and scrambled eggs. Last night we had hung a little sign, blown up some balloons, and put out the card from my Grandma & Grandpa Goodner and Grandma Gigi as well as the gift that my parents had sent and, of course, arrived right on schedule (I am still working on that kind of timing). Bells was so excited to open her present on her birthday! Here are a few pictures from this morning. Note the shirt that my parents sent her and the fact that she is wearing it today (she went and changed before school she was so excited)! Our family is definitely a chocolate family and this is the perfect shirt for one of our kids!! :-)

**PS Shelby's hair is darker in the pictures because we dyed it. Before anyone freaks out-it is the wash out kind. But, it takes 28 washes or so. (We are figuring a bit more since she is so blonde.) She had a school report to do where she dressed up as that person, and well, her person had brown hair. She thought it would be fun to dye it, I thought it would be fun to see how the other half lives with brunette daughters that actual resemble them, and so Garth and I dyed it. It is already a bit lighter. I will have to post about her "dark hair" experiences later. But, enjoy-you get a double kind of post and I didn't even realize it! :-)