I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirl under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Friday, February 6, 2009

You're Invited!

I can't believe my little girl is going to be 5! Tonight we made up some invitations to give to her friends around the neighborhood and at pre-school! Earlier today I asked Ashlynn what she wanted for her birthday, thinking she would tell me that she wanted to get her ears pierced, and to my surprise she told me that she wanted a red race car! Who's girl is she anyway!! I asked her about getting earrings and she told me this:

Ashlynn: 'I want race car earrings.'

Mom: 'You want earrings that are race cars?!!'

Ashlynn: 'No, I want earrings and a red race car.'

Dad: 'Oh I don't know if you can have both.'

Hailey: (with hand on hip) 'Oh, yes she can dad.'

Dad: 'I don't know, and who's going to buy it? I'm the one with the money.'

~this is where Anthony got glares from all three of us and I'm sure that if Alyssa had been awake for this conversation, she would have given him the death stare as well. Luckily for him the nurse at the doctors office called us back or he would have gotten an ear full too!~ We'll see what she does get! Probably earrings from Mom, and a race car from Dad! Wish you could all be here!

(her birthday is actually on Friday the 13th but becasue it's valentines weekend we decided to bump her birthday party up a day)

4 comments:

Always, Forever, NO MATTER WHAT said...

Oh I wish that I could be there for her party. I bet it will be a lot of fun. Where did the past five years go?

Elder Larkin said...

Hahahaha! A red race car?! Hopefully not a real one. Maybe one for her Barbie? The hand on the hip and the attitude from Hailey...Oh my gosh! You sure she's not mine? Oh wait! No, she YOURS!!! lol They make me laugh so hard. Just wait 'til they get older!

aprilalexus said...

LOL thats so funny! I wouldnt think twice if it the words were coming out of Oaks mouth but Im suprised to hear Ashlynn say it haha maybe Oak rubbed off on her :) Im gonna hae Oak make her something for her B-day she was asking about her today,call me with your address K

kate said...

That's so cute about the race car. My niece Errin always wanted a bright blue hummer whenever we'd asked her what she wanted for gifts.

I can NOT believe that Ash is 5!! It seems like just yesterday that I went to see you in the hospital! ;)