Lily is 17!

Corey and I went to temple this morning for a session, and picked up sushi for Lily on the way home, per her 7am text request. I forgot candles though, so we had to make due - the 1 candle is for the 1 in "17" and the 6 and the other single candle stand for 6+1 which equals 7, so =17

(Lily, I'm putting both of these photos here, you can tell me which one you prefer later.) Happy seventeenth sushi birthday Lily! Blowing out her candles.

So Lily got the day off today. I let her just read and do whatever she wanted. Her sisters figured that means they get the day off two. I didn't fight it. Like I said yesterday, I have not been doing a good job as chore enforcer lately. They are reading books 1, 2 and 3 of a series, and they are quite enjoying it and have a strict code of "don't spoil it" for each other.

I asked them if they were sitting in the correct book order, and they were not, so we rearranged. Natalie is in book 1, Lily's in 2, Sophi's in 3.

My mom came by with some crumbl cookies from my mom, which we let be her "cake" today, and my mom arrived right as I was pulling in from getting Lily's favorite ice cream, Sea Salt Carmel Truffle, so it was perfect timing. We just did 3 candles this time.

Make another birthday wish. 

She invited some friends over to watch a movie tonight, they're watching Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality and eating the rest of the ice cream and crumbl cookies. HBD Lily, I hope it was a good one. She's starting her senior year, so it's crazy that Abi is leaving soon and Lily will be gone next year! Time is going too fast. We'll try to be present and enjoy each day we have with each of these kids, and we often tell them that we'll pray for them and "worry" about them until they are safely dead.