Sophi is 14

Happy Birthday to Sophi! 

Sophi is 14 years old today! Lucky for her, I remembered to get candles at the store, so the cake properly represents her years.

She let Katharine blow out the candles with her, and then we all had chocolate cake and cookies and cream ice cream (and neapolitain and chocolate chip, cause my mom brought some over too). Three days ago I said that Abi is the child who's birth and entire life has been recorded on the blog. That is technically true, since I began this blog in 2007, but it really began in earnest after our trip to Costa Rica and Chile, and Sophia was born after we got home from that adventure and I continued with my weekly recording of events, so Sophi is really the one who has had her life most thoroughly documented since her birth. So in honor of 14 years, here are 14 posts to commemorate her life

1. 2011 Sep - Baby Sophi
2. 2011 Nov - Baby blessing
3. 2012 Feb - She's so cute!
4. 2013 Jun - Making faces
5. 2013 Aug - doesn't like swimming
6. 2014 Jan - Sophi made a mess with toothpaste
7. 2014 Apr - Meets the Disney Princesses
8. 2014 June - Princess Sophia
9. 2014 Aug - Lily gave Sophi a haircut
10. 2015 Aug - Sophi eye exam
11. 2016 Jul - wearing an eye patch
12. 2017 Dec - Artist and author
13. 2018 Aug - Sophi starts violin
14. 2018 Sep - Lego Elves for her birthday

I'll try to keep up with this tradition of sharing links, and maybe I'll even go back and add them to the various birthdays that the kids have already had this year, so that no one feels left out. But if I do that, for the record, the birthday links started with Abi and Sophi in 2025. 

Today Owen and Peter had soccer games at the same time (9am) so I arranged last night for Peter to get a right with a neighbor, and I took Corey's car when I took Owen to his game. Abi was gone with the van taking the ACT, and Corey was at a crops garden assignment and rode his bike there for that. Owen played hard and looked like he'd been drenched in a rainstorm by the time it was over. 

He definitely broke a sweat! He plays hard! 

Corey and I just gave Sophi cash for her birthday, so there were no toys, but she made her own toys. She and Natalie have been playing legos in their room, which made me smile. 

Sophi created an AMAZING castle for Jasmine! It looks really good, especially how she did the porch at a diagonal, and the way she made it look like it has Arabian carpets/rugs inside, it is very impressive. 

These kids have years of legos under the belts. I'm kinda a beginner, and I don't know all the lego techniques and skills that the kids have acquired. I shall seek to have them teach me. 

Hyrum arrived home from his internship in San Diego. He left this morning and drove all day. We are excited to have him here for a week before he heads back up to Idaho for school next Saturday. Abi's friends threw her a little surprise party tonight, but with Hyrum here to help watch kids, Corey and I went climbing. Lily came and bouldered and we did a bit of toprope. We just got back, the girls were watching a "K drama" (Korean romantic drama) and I asked where K was, they said she was upstairs. I found her asleep under the lego table. She's been playing hard!