Merrill Family

Our Birthday Girl, KALICIA! ~5 yrs. Old~

She had such a fun birthday with all her friends and cousins!
Inside the three story play house.....
Dinner on the front porch of their dream playhouse.......
Kalicia's favorite birthday gift, her guitar!
She says, "Just like her dad!"
She can't wait to play guitar with her daddy!
She got to open her presents first thing in the morning!

One of her gifts was starting piano lessons and she loves it!

We had a picnic at the park with her cousins in the valley!

Anthony was such a big help with the kids!

Tradition has been to make our own pinatas, this one didn't last very long.

Kalicia loved instructing her cousin, Aaron, how it's done.

Aunt Rachelle always makes being together fun!

She played Red Rover with all the kids.

Playing on the playground was a favorite.

We love Great Aunt Judy!

Kalicia knows she is a princess!

What a memory!

Loren (Daddy) pulled late night hours to get this play house

done in time for her birthday party.

It was supposed to be a two story play house, but turned into a 3 story!

Dad got the cement poored in the middle of the night and we got this great idea to have them write their names in the cement.............

So we had to wake them up, wondering if it would cause crying and caos, but willing to chance it.

Oh, they loved it!

I think they thought we were crazy getting them up in the night in their pjs and taking them out to play in the cement, but they will always remember it. They were laughing. It turned out to be a fun time! Even the boys ran out to be a part of it, carving their names and smiley faces. But, they got away before picture taking. They wimped out because of the cold!

Can't forget the other projects that went on, during all this, trying to beat the winter!

Pooring cement on the front porch to raise it up. We hired Troy and Delvern Merrill, our cousins. They did a nice job. They even dyed and stamped it! It turned out beautiful!

And getting the green house built up around our citrus trees. That will be such a nice add on to our house in the winter! All this remodeling has been crazy,but exciting!