No more wait, Charity's EIGHT!

Charity on the day she was born! I so can't believe it was 8 years ago!!!






One year old! I LOVED that dress on her!






2nd birthday party.... Bryn's helping :) so cute!







We did her cake a few days before her birthday, so we had to use this piece of bread for her blow out the candles ON her birthday :)

She looks so adorable in this one :) 4 years old

leading us in the "Happy Birthday" song.... always in charge :)

her beautiful 6 year old smile!

7th birthday, dancing to "Happy Birthday" SO hyper :)

and now....

Oh how I love this little girl!!! My little Charity is such a blessing in my life. She's growing up to be such an amazing little lady. I'm always so proud to be her mom. I'm lucky Heavenly Father sent her to me.

Charity is one of our little bookworms. She reads for hours! She gets SO into her books too! I'm always so amazed at how well she understands what she is reading and can just feel it all. It's just awesome to have her retell a story that she's reading.... so many details are recalled. In her class she has been writing her own books. Her teacher lets her fold paper into a book and illustrate her stories and such and then read them to the class. She told me this morning that "she started it ALL~ and now EVERYONE is making books and reading them to the class." I love that her teacher would let her head something like that up, and be so motivating with her reading. Her teacher told her that "when she's old and in a wheel chair, she hopes to read a book written by Charity Maynes." (even though she just barely found out how to pronounce Charity's last name!!!! Charity never corrected her because she thought that would be rude :) LOL!!! HA! Funny girl) She's just so smart! We've always been surprised at what this girls knows. Recently she has been way into Math too. She's got Uncle Steve, Uncle Brent and Grandpa quizzing her NONSTOP on her times tables and even teaching her some division!! She is really picking it up! And she LOVES it! You can just feel her excitement when she figures out the right answer! Love it! She's got so much energy too! You would think she would start to run out of steam with how much she goes and goes, but nope! She's still going and going! I love it!! She definitely livens the place up a bit. Charity is an incredible big sister. This family would fail to thrive without Charity. She's always helping out and always there to fill in the blanks that Nate and I leave. She's really like another parent :). She enjoys teaching everything she learns to everyone too--- which they all love! Charity is one of the most forgiving people I know. She's always there to give a hug too.... she knows when people are down and is able to cheer them up. Charity is REALLY excited to get baptized this year! She's counting down the days and that makes me happy. I really just can't believe that this sweet, fun, happy little girl is mine! I'm so blessed.

Happy Birthday Charity!!!!

I forgot to have her fill out her list of favorites.... have to do that later!