Did you know that Helen’s birthday is only two days after Portia’s? That means that if/when I’m not on my A-game, they both get their birthday blog-posts written at the same time.😅

Happy 7th birthday to our sweet Helenator!

Helen is seriously the funnest little girl to be around! She kind of just quietly goes about her life absolutely relishing most everything about it. She loved celebrating her birthday. She loved getting a birthday crown at school. She loved going shopping for the ingredients to her birthday foods. She loves playing with her birthday gifts. She just loves it all!

We love her!

Helen had these cupcakes fully planned in her head long before her birthday. It was super fun to help make her mental masterpiece a reality.

For her birthday, Helen requested a fairy costume and also makeup. She is having a blast getting super fancy (and coercing Bianca into doing it with her) whenever she pleases.

And speaking of fancy, Helen has been loving the unique opportunity she has had recently to be a model for Hope and Henry children’s clothes. She has done 4 photo-shoots for them over the last year and always has a super fun time. Plus, she gets free clothes out of it!

When we went to St. George to visit my brother Tanner and his wife Becca, Helen loved finding anything and everything that could count as a cave. She made sure she spent at least some time in each one she encountered.

Just like Portia, Helen loves being creative and crafty. She’ll make something out of just about anything available.

I found these three raccoons snuggling together in a hat on the floor of Helen’s room. It’s nice to know she’s still her raccoon self at heart.

Some other things that Helen really likes include:

• Melting beads
• Playing outside
• Her umbrella
• Ballet–she’s in lessons and has tons of fun!
• Her best friend, Reagan

We’re so grateful that Helen has been ours for 7 whole years!

Sometimes I kind of let it slip my mind that celebrating the kids’ birthdays means that they’re a whole year older. I feel like this year I’m still half in denial that my kids are really growing up.

We celebrated 9 wonderful years of loving Portia on March 10th! She got lots of loving from her siblings, parents, grandparents, teachers, friends, and classmates! I feel like she was bringing home birthday spoils for the whole week. She loved the attention!

Portia is super fun at this season of her life (just like she was in the others)! She is creative, enthusiastic, opinionated, smart, and willing to work hard. She also really excels in academics, music, comedic timing, and making sure she is heard. We love having her in our family!

For her birthday, Portia got a dinosaur lego set. Here she is rocking her dinosaur to sleep. <3

She made this impressive tower of random things from her and Carter’s bedroom. It was taller than me!

Just having fun being herself!

Right now, Portia’s sport of choice is swimming. She loves going each week and is making great progress!

She is also taking piano lessons. She works very hard at practicing, and is richly rewarded for her efforts by her teacher. The other kids in music lessons are rather envious. But she is making wonderful progress and seems to enjoy it all.

No matter where we are, Portia finds a way to make it extra fun!

Some other things Portia enjoys right now are

• Reading–especially graphic novels
• Every conceivable type of craft
• Picking out clothes for the day
• Playing outside (finally!)

I feel like this post really isn’t enough to give you a good idea of just how terrific Portia is. You’ll just have to come hang out with her sometime!

I’m so excited to share my 2025 theme verb with you! It’s a good one! But before we get into that, I have to share with you what Josh and I did to better survive January this year!

As you might imagine, this all began with a very loving and generous mother. 🙂 For Josh’s birthday last June, his mom gifted him free babysitting! We were so grateful that she let us cash in on that gift in a big way! She watched the kids while Josh and I took a whirlwind trip to Disneyland! We left Sunday morning 12 January and were home by lunchtime on Tuesday 14 January! But we maximized every minute of that trip, and we are both so much the happier for having taken it. So thanks again, Mom! We are so grateful for you!

We got to our hotel in the early afternoon and so had lots of time to enjoy Downtown Disney that first day. We found some souvenirs for the kids (because we couldn’t very well go to Disneyland without them AND not get them anything!) explored the grounds of the Disneyland hotel, enjoyed the general ambiance, and even had a reservation for dinner at the Jazz Kitchen. Josh had a goal to eat at all new places this time and this was our first one. It was a fun New Orleans themed spot with live music–which we love! But the biggest thing of note about it was their shrimp and grits. It was next. level. The grits were so creamy and almost chewy-soft. And there was this gravy business that was so flavorful in the most unexpected and delightful way! I wonder if they share their recipe anywhere… Confirmation: the recipe is online! I’ll see you in 20 lbs!

Our in the parks day was so good! I was afraid that I would be the limiting factor in how much we could accomplish–if you know Josh + Disney parks, you understand. But I absolutely held my own! We arrived at Disneyland 15 minutes before opening and left 30 minutes after closing! In that time–thanks to Josh’s expert planning, the lightning lane upgrade we added to our tickets, the fact that it was the middle of January, and excellent speed-walking skills–we rode 30 rides between both parks!

Of those 30, 9 were new to me. I was proud of myself for having tried out so much stuff I didn’t know existed before. But I’m even more proud of Josh! There is one ride in Disneyland which his family (for reasons nobody knows) loves to hate: Storybook Land. And Josh has always taken pride in the fact that he has never ridden it. But, in the spirit of our adventurous couple’s trip, he swallowed his pride and rode it! ♥️♥️♥️ My analysis of the ride is that it was adorable, especially since I knew literally nothing about the ride before going on it. (It has always been a somewhat taboo subject, after all.) I actually really enjoyed seeing all the scenes from classic movies brought to miniature life! The commentary from the boat master was definitely cheesy, but it didn’t bug me. It likely will not make my list of favorite rides, but I’d definitely go on it again! You’ll have to ask Josh what he thought.

We had such a fun time doing Disneyland just the two of us! This is my first time to go without toddlers, and I LOVED doing it Josh’s way from dawn until far past dusk!

And then, it was over. The kids hadn’t even had time to miss us yet when I picked them up from school. They were disappointed that I wasn’t Grandma. 😅

Sigh… It was seriously just so good! But on to the new year with its new theme!

My theme verb for 2025 is Pray. There are a few reasons I chose this word. I had received a tip (from the Follow Him podcast) that I would be amazed at what the Lord would tell me if I would ask for very specific things. I really gave this some effort one week in November-ish, and was indeed amazed! It was then that I first decided that pray should be my word for this year. I want more experiences like that! It does take extra effort, and conscious planning, but it feels like that sort of praying is what people are talking about when they encourage us to live up to our privileges. Truth be told, I haven’t really engaged in that kind of praying very much so far this year.

Another reason I felt like pray was a good word for me this year is because I have had some struggles with the principle. Over the years I have often wondered what prayer actually does. Through years of study and, yes, prayer on the subject I feel like I have gained a testimony of prayer’s power to get God into me, so to speak. I know that when I earnestly pray to know His will, I will sooner or later get an answer, or simply be led to do it. I know that He will answer many of my questions through the power of the Holy Ghost. These are the parts of prayer that led me to choose the word in the first place. But there is a part of prayer that has been a source of deep frustration and even anger for me. In the scriptures, the Savior encourages several times to “ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.” Amulek teaches us that we should pray to God for even temporal things like the crops of our fields that they may increase. I have been taught my whole life that Heavenly Father cares about the details of my life and wants to bless me (with a fish not a serpent, with bread not a stone). But I must confess, I sometimes have trouble seeing the bread or the fish, and what I receive in response to my prayers feels a lot like serpents and stones. And all of this has brought me to a place where I am wondering if I actually know the God I worship.

And that–TRULY knowing my God and His Son–is what I hope to gain from Pray2025. I want to use prayer this year to forge a real relationship with God. I want to use my faithful efforts of praying in earnest, meaningful ways to rekindle the hope in Him I feel I have lost. I want to begin my journey to the place where I can say, with Job, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.”

I’m excited for this new year! I am looking forward to the things the Lord will teach me and the ways that He will change me in 2025.

It is always fun to look back on a year in terms of the word I chose as my theme verb. This year is especially exciting because of how poorly my word went! 😂

I’ll start this post with the really pessimistic view of the year: I started out in January great. I worked really hard to make running a priority and got many miles in–something like 23. February got a little worse, March a little worse than that, and so on through the year. There were times throughout the year that I would try to recommit myself to running and it would last for a week or two and then fall apart again. And my grand finale of the year is that I have run a total of ZERO times in the month of December. All of this is totally true. And there are times in my life where I would have looked at this year as a remarkable failure.

But even during the down times this year, I feel like I learned a lot of things. I’m going to do some bullet points to kind of explain this.

• I learned that I probably chose this as my year’s verb too soon in my life. I still have little children at home during the day, and not so little children home in the afternoon and all day during the summer. So I’m probably not as free as I was feeling I might be at the beginning of the year.
• I learned from the fact that sometimes I wanted to do something good for myself, but didn’t feel up to running, and since running was what I was “supposed” to be doing I wouldn’t do any exercise at all. I’m proud to say that when I recognized that pattern, I tried to change it.
• And on that note, there were MANY times this year that I saw that something wasn’t working and I decided to lower my expectations and/or change my definition of success. That was probably the best thing I could have done, because it was doing that which gave me the motivation to try again all those times during the year. I would recommend that practice to everyone!
• I didn’t listen to myself in my beginning of the year post. You may or may not recall that I mentioned there was NO WAY I ever would have been able to successfully run that marathon back in college without my running buddy (thanks again, Asael). Well, I didn’t have a solid running buddy this time. Sometimes I ran with Josh (which was great! He’s a better runner than me); but a lot of times he and I find ourselves exhausted and unmotivated at the same time because of the same (5) things, so we had a hard time being a complementary force for running to each other.

Because of these things I learned I feel like this year can still be called a success. Plus here are some other ways I succeeded this year.

• I ran approximately 90 miles this year. I know that’s nothing close to what I set as my goal this past January; but it is also nothing close to 0; so I still feel pretty good about it.
• I DID run a race this year. I had considered training for and running a half-marathon with my brother and that obviously didn’t happen. But I DID run a 5K on Thanksgiving morning and it was super fun! I’m glad I did it!
• My running efforts rubbed off on others. Josh ran with me, Carter ran with me, Portia scootered with me on a run, Helen biked with me on a run. Those were all fun activities with people I love that were good for our bodies and minds and spirits!

So that is how my year looked. At least concerning my Run2024 initiative. I have also had some AMAZING spiritual experiences this year that have changed my life (hopefully forever)! But I really don’t see much of how they could connect with the running theme; so I’ll pass on sharing them.

I have already selected my verb for next year, and I can tell you right now that it’s going to be life changing! I’m so excited!

I thought it would be nice to post some of what we’ve been doing for the past couple months. This post won’t have a cohesive flow; it will just be pictures with explanation. Enjoy!

Our pear tree became ripe enough for the kids to start enjoying pears in late August. Here they all are with their yummy pears! My kids are rarely all in one place together unless they are eating, so I have lots of pictures of them at the table or up to the kitchen counter or with snacks or stuff. I just love seeing them all together! They’re so great!

Also in August, Josh got surgery for a hernia. The surgery went great and he has healed very well. But I have a funny anecdote about surgery day I wanted to share. When I arrived, Josh was still very slowly waking up. We were in the recovery “room” for over an hour before he felt like he was ready to go. The nurse walked us out to the curb and waited with Josh in his wheelchair while I went to get the car and bring it to the doors. When I returned with the car, I saw the nurse chatting away to Josh … who looked literally dead. It was such a funny sight to see her just talking merrily as Josh hung limp and pale in his wheelchair. 😆 (Am I creepy for thinking it was amusing?) Anyway, he had passed out, so we went back to the recovery room for a while until he was truly ready to go and then everything was totally smooth after that. So don’t be worried about Josh. But it was memorable for me.

Then the kids went back to school. Since Helen is now a big first grader who goes to school all day, it is just Bianca and me at home.🤯 The first week the kids were back in school, we took Bianca’s baby doll (Ella is her most recent name, I believe) on a walk every day. Bianca is a sweet little mommy and made sure that if she wasn’t able to attend to all of Ella’s needs, I did it for her. I wanted so bad for somebody to ask me what I had been doing since the kids went back to school. I would reply “Oh, just babysitting my granddaughter.”

But finally, after Labor Day, it was Bianca’s time to go back to school as well! She loves going to Miss Karie’s preschool and all the fun crafts she gets to bring home. Here she is in her horse mask from the week they learned about farm animals. 🥰

Fay started junior high this year and is working so hard at all her classes! One afternoon, I walked into the house from picking up the elementary school kids to find Fay like this. Something about her school work spread around her, her focus on her laptop, and the soda she had saved from lunch just made me feel like she’s so so big and grown-up. Thank goodness she’s still Fay!

With the new school year came the return to after school activities. Carter is doing soccer again, Helen and Bianca are trying ballet this year, and Fay is giving tumbling a go. Portia decided she didn’t want to dance again this year, but instead give tennis a try. She is SO CUTE playing tennis and I think she is making good progress. But it’s hard to know if she likes it or not. She really wishes she had a friend to do it with her. If your daughter is Portia’s age and wants to try tennis, let me know and let’s sign them up together!

So, Josh is the funnest dad ever (I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned to you all how great Josh is. 😉) and one day when he mowed the lawn he mowed part of it into a maze. The kids got literally hours of fun out of that maze over multiple days. They were excited to show it off to their friends when they came over, and they were devastated when it got mowed away. But Josh assured them he would make another maze some day, maybe with the entire yard next time!

One Saturday, Fay and Portia decided to dress all matching. Even down to their black socks with pink toes and heels! Then they decided to do as much stuff in sync as possible. They would whisper to each other what they planned to say and then count to three to say the same thing at the same time. It was so cute! And then Helen and Bianca wanted to do the same. Helen even did hers and Bianca’s hair the same! I just adore my girls!

And my boy!

Fay really wanted to bob for apples in celebration of the beginning of fall. We all went out and had a grand time bobbing, but Carter’s bob was the best! He put on his swimming goggles and just plunged his entire head into the pot of water. He bit so fiercely at the apple, apparently, that each time he thought he had the apple, a bite would come off into his mouth instead of bringing the entire apple. He probably got 5 bites of apple before he finally successfully extracted the apple itself. We all had so much fun watching the battle and Carter’s ultimate triumph!

And speaking of the beginning of fall, we had a fall kickoff party on the autumnal equinox this year! We decorated the whole main floor as autumny as we could and ate soup and pumpkin pie and pumpkin tres leches (provided by Mary)! We were grateful for Camry (Cameron and Mary) and Morgan who came to celebrate with us.

We’ve been really enjoying the spoils of our garden the past two months. A huge thanks goes out to Hyrum and Becky who provided almost all the plants for our garden this year! We got so many glorious zucchini, tomatoes and cucumbers! The only plants they didn’t give us were our pumpkin plants. But those have also done so well! I planted two plants–one orange Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins and one smaller white pumpkins–and each plant produced 5 beautiful pumpkins! I had been watching very closely and was sure we were going to get 9 pumpkins altogether. But then, one day, Carter found a whole jack-o-lantern size pumpkin hiding in the weeds at the very back of the garden behind the corn. (The weeds are, indeed, that big.) It was still green when he found it, but now it is ripe and beautiful and harvested and sitting on our front porch!

I have no recollection as to why this occurred, but a few weeks ago the kids all unanimously decided we needed to have a ball. Everybody got fancy for the occasion (I think Carter put a bow-tie on with his soccer uniform) and danced around the house for a good half hour. Everybody loved it! Except maybe Charlotte (the dog). 😂 Maybe one of our kids will grow up and follow in their father’s ballroom dance footsteps!

I’m grateful for the opportunity this post has given me to look back and see how beautiful our crazy little life is. I tend to let myself get bogged down in the surviving of each day and lose sight of this sacred season of growing up that my family is in. But there really is so much simple joy to be had in every day; and each joyful moment is a gift directly from my own loving Heavenly Father.

For the 4th of July weekend, we finally made it up to visit my brother Joseph and his family in Billings, Montana. Everything we knew about Billings before we went we had heard from Joseph and Maren and it was basically this “Billings isn’t much of a tourist destination.” But here’s the truth: we weren’t really there for Billings. And Joseph and Maren’s house is a glorious family-tourist destination! Every one of us had a wonderful time with good food, fun adventures and magnificent company!

What you ought to know about Joseph’s house is that it has just about everything a kid (or adult) could dream of! Their yard is equipped with a trampoline, zip-line, swing-set, swings hanging from trees, garden, fruit-trees named after Greek gods, ropes course, natural cliffs (known as rims, I have learned), deer galore, bunnies, turkeys, and other exciting wildlife. They also have every electric gadget you can think of, including (but not limited to): Lawnmower, Tesla, bikes, and smart-home devices. And, alas, I was too busy enjoying myself that I forgot to get pictures. Just know that whatever you’re imagining, reality is probably cooler.

And, as if just being with them in their magical every-day-life wasn’t enough, they also took us on some great adventures!

On July 4th, we piled in their 15 passenger van and went to see a firework show that a local arena was providing. We found a great place to watch them at a Target parking-lot. It turned out to be the place where a bunch of people were setting off very impressive personal firework displays as well, so we got to see about an hour’s worth of great fireworks.

Another day, we packed a picnic (Did I say “we”? I mean Maren packed us a picnic, because she’s the best ever!) and drove to a beautiful waterfall hike. The hike was short enough that we survived carrying Bianca 7/8ths of the way, but exciting enough that we felt like we really got some decent mountain goating practice in! The waterfall was really cool too. Instead of all the water flowing over a cliff as with most waterfalls, this waterfall came rushing out of a cave.

After the hike and some delicious local pizza, we enjoyed another thing that makes life chez Joseph and Maren extra cool: the electric bikes. We took a bike ride down the road and then up to the tippy top of the rim that overlooks downtown Billings. This was my first ever experience with electric bikes and it was glorious! Even though we were biking up a mountain, the bike helped so much that I just zipped right up without breaking a sweat. Although, I feel I must acknowledge that Atlas beat me to the top. 🙂 And the view of the valley from atop the rims did not disappoint!

On our last full day, we finally got to visit the “grotto.” To get to there, we walked to the top of Joseph and Maren’s street and started trekking through the brush. We were impressed to learn how Joseph’s family discovered the grotto from above, and then how they cut and mowed a trail to get there from the road. They also added a cool rope swing that everybody enjoyed (even me)!

We had been waiting to visit the grotto until the trail would be less muddy as Billings had received TONS of rain that week. (Frankly, the weather on its own was a highlight of this trip; it was 70s and overcast the whole time!) And while we were playing in the grotto, it started to rain and hail on us! It made for an even more fun adventure.

After the rain and hail cleared (about 8 minutes), we took the over-the-rim route back to the house. Christine had, apparently, heard that you could eat the kind of cactus we kept trying to not step on as we walked and she wanted to try it out. Joseph obliged by picking one and cutting it open with his pocket knife, and my kids are very proud to say they have now eaten real cactus. Call me lame, but I opted against trying it.

Later, we got a tour of the whole city of Billings and enjoyed more hiking up on the rims and more spectacular views. We could even see the Billings Temple from up there! Then we drove down and got to visit the temple grounds as well as see the famed hospital that brought Joseph and company to Billings in the first place.

In between these “official” adventures, there was lots of delicious food (again, Maren is the best ever!), playing of games, enjoying the aforementioned wonders of the yard and house, more electric biking, chatting chatting chatting, reading books, sleeping in, and the making of many wonderful memories. I personally couldn’t get over how there was a whole wilderness to explore right outside the house! I loved the deer, the rocks, the wild growing plants, the rims, and all the natural beauty that was literally right outside the door! It truly was magical.

A topic of repeated conversation during our visit was that of Nicholas’ hair. I get the sense that he is like my boy and would just prefer to avoid haircuts if at all possible. But he was very kind and allowed me to braid his hair twice. Once, it was just to get his bangs out of his eyes for the day, but the second time we tried to see if we could get him some sweet waves by sleeping in braids overnight. That one didn’t turn out so well, but it was still fun to try.

Our final Billings adventure was to church. I love going to church on vacation, and especially with family. It was fun to see Maren sustained in her new calling (good luck, Maren!!) and Lexi leading the music in Sacrament Meeting, and Nicholas pass the sacrament, and to hear about what everybody learned in their classes. It was a delightful cherry-on-top to our stay in Billings.

This trip was certainly a highlight of our summer. I’m so grateful for Joseph and Maren and how marvelously well they took care of us for the weekend. I’m very rarely a house-guest; but Joseph and Maren made it downright sensational for us. If you’ve been considering visiting, allow me to tip the scale for you: Billings was a fabulous tourist destination!

We celebrated this gorgeous girl on May 7 as she turned 12! She is such a joy and gift in our lives; we’re convinced that everybody who has ever encountered Fay is better because of it.

Fay is an absolute party of a big sister! She is super creative and loves to lead her siblings in all kinds of grand schemes! Sometimes it looks like impromptu story time on the kitchen floor; other times it is marching around the back yard in formation halting and turning on Fay’s signal. She reminds me quite a bit of my own oldest sister who was just as creative and adventurous as Fay. If only all the world could grow up under the magical direction of a Kathryn or a Fay!

Fay is also so loving and giving to her siblings. This past Christmas, Fay worked hard to make or buy a very thoughtful gift for each of her siblings (all of her own volition and funding), wrapped them, and lovingly placed them under the “kids’ tree.” On their last day of school before Christmas, she had a sweet little event of bestowing her gifts on her adoring siblings.

Fay was also in the school play this year, and even had a line to say! She is still (mostly) enjoying playing the violin. And she always loves learning new things! Her thrill for learning is an enormous blessing to our whole family. Fay has been known to pull out her school notebooks and just read off bullet-points of interesting facts she has recorded. She sometimes insists that siblings or parents sit and listen as long as there is more to read.

In the school play this year, there was a skeleton named Lucy. Fay was DELIGHTED to meet a replica of the OG Lucy skeleton at the Bean Museum.

In 2020, we turned Fay into “Rey Fay” for May the 4th (be with you). And apparently it is now an absolute must. So here she is in the 2024 iteration of Rey Fay.

This has been a big year for Fay, because she is now old enough to attend the temple! I have loved the opportunities I’ve had to go with her to the baptistry and see her testimony of temples and covenants grow. 🤍🤍🤍 This most recent time we went I, myself, was even baptized! That was the first time for me since being endowed in 2011!

I owe it all to Fay!

Yesterday we celebrated the best boy I know as he turned 10 years old! It’s always very exciting to move to the realm of double digits!

Some things that Carter loves right now include:

• Star Wars (especially light sabers!)
• Reading–Big Nate comic books, Wings of Fire graphic novels, Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians +
• Sports–soccer, basketball, four square, cross net, swimming +
• Building–legos, kiwi crate style stuff, stuff with Dad, light sabers +
• Video games–Super Smash Bros, Star Wars games, Mario Party with the fam, Hogwarts Legacy +
• Hanging out with friends
• Pokemon cards
• Riding Bikes, scooters, skateboards and taking them to the skate park
• Playing trumpet (he reports that it is far superior to piano)
• Doing math

Some things that we love about Carter right now include:

• Watching him get excited about all those things he loves
• That he does his chores just about every single day
• That he cares deeply about his people–family and friends
• That he wore shorts 95% of the days of winter
• Going to his soccer games, listening to him practice trumpet, and going to band concerts
• Hearing him call up the stairs and say “start my time!” when he has earned his screen time
• That he is still the best brother to all his sisters and the best son to his parents

We love Carter a million million! He is such a fun dude to have around!

Yesterday was a magically celestial day for the Monson family. Our magnificent Portia Eve was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and received the gift of the Holy Ghost. 🤍🤍🤍

It was so special to be there for this ultra-important day in Portia’s life. As I mentioned in her birthday post, I feel like she really has prepared for the sacred promises she made with God yesterday and that she really does want to follow the Savior to the best of her ability for the rest of her life.

I’m so grateful for myself and my children that President Nelson has taught us so much more clearly about the power of our covenants with God. (Maybe the rest of you understood better than me.) And I’m grateful that Portia wants to be part of God’s covenant family and that she wants to have a covenant relationship with Him. I joyfully look forward to watching how she continues to come unto Christ and set a good example for me throughout her life.

Happy Birthday to our BEAUTIFUL little Bianca! She is truly such a little gem and joy to have in our family that I’m not confident I’ll be able to adequately put it into words. But I’ll try my best.

First of all, Bianca just loves. She loves everybody in her life—parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles. She just loves everybody. But she also just loves each day of living her adorable little life. She finds joy in all the little things—like coming with me to pick up Helen from kindergarten or wearing her hair in a bun—and all the big things—like planning and celebrating her birthday! Her love and joy are so contagious that everybody leaves Bianca’s presence happier and better than when she found them.  I’m truly grateful for her example of love and joy.

Some more specific things that Bianca loves are as follows:

• Being fancy, royal, beautiful, or any kind of grown up
• Deer. Her birthday was themed “deers and flowers.”
• Helping at home. Though this love has limitations (such as doing her assigned chores)
• Babies and dolls to whom she can be a good mommy.
• Everything about preschool!
• Choosing outfits and laying them out for the next day.
• Having curly hair.
• Baby Shark.

Bianca is the perfect little caboose to our family; she makes sure we can’t help but continually see the magic in life. We simply adore her!

Happy Birthday, Anker Bonkers!