Tessa turned 8 on Thursday!! Tessa is such a sweet and caring girl. Her teacher at school, Mrs Pontius, has reached out to me several times to express what a sweet friend Tessa is to everyone in their class. She said that she wishes she could clone her and have a class full of Tessa's. :) Tessa is so quick to help out if she sees anyone struggling with something. She writes us sweet notes, gives us hugs, and tells us how much she loves us.
Tessa has a great sense of humor. She makes us laugh every day. I have always loved her spunky, quick wit. She doesn't take herself too seriously and isn't afraid to be silly. I hope that remains throughout her life.
Tessa loves loves loves animals. She can't wait until she's a mom so she can have pets of her own. For now, she settles for stuffed pets. She has so many stuffed animals, and every one has a special place in her heart.
Tessa also loves to read. When Damon gets a new library book from school, he shows it to Tessa as soon as she gets home and she sits right down and reads it. Every night she reads past the time we tell her she needs to turn her lights off because she's lost in her books and just wants to finish them.
Tessa loves to play with her friends, and can make friends everywhere she goes. She loves gymnastics and dance, playing pretend with Damon, laughing with Rockwell, watching tv, listening to JoJo songs, going on bike rides, and doing the monkey bars.
Happy birthday beautiful Tessa Girl! We love love love you and are so grateful you are in our family!!
Paul went into work a little bit late on Thursday so he could make crepes for Tessa's birthday breakfast.
She had told me she wanted brownies and ice cream for her dessert, but changed her mind two days before her birthday. She told Paul that she wanted a cat cake, like how he had made a dog cake for Damon's birthday. Paul stayed up until 1:30 Wednesday night making her the cutest cat cake I have ever seen.
He showed it to her that morning, and said it was worth the late night just to see her face. She LOVED it!!
She had a great day at school. A couple friends gave her presents and made her feel special.
She opened presents when Paul got home from school that afternoon.
Our ministering brother, Sam, made her this hat. That was so nice of him!
She loved it all!
She was so excited to play with her new toys that she didn't want to go to dance. Instead we hung out and enjoyed her new presents.
She chose Cafe Rio for dinner, and so we drove to American Fork since that's the best one around. We had cake and ice cream when we got home.
What a great blog for such a special girl! That's so wonderful that she's so caring at school and such a good friend to everyone! I love that she loves to read too. You sure got some great pictures of her totally showing her excitement over her gifts. And that cake is amazing and how sweet of Paul to stay up so late making her cake and then getting up early to make crepes for her breakfast! He is one impressive man with all his talents and how wonderful that he'll sacrifice to do special things for his children (and you)!
ReplyDeleteI love love love Tessa and I'm so grateful that Hallee has her as a best friend. Paul's cake is amazing!
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