Page Stages

Mackenzie's birthday often gets celebrated in Ohio. This year was no different. She wanted to go ice skating and requested a hole poke cake. Grandma and Grandpa Dayton gave her a new trico blanket, pink with orange border and a hippo in the middle and ducks in the four corners. She was thrilled! She also got a new purse and a Ty beanie baby hedge hog. It was a great 12th birthday. Mackenzie was welcomed into the young women's program and as part of that celebration Nathan and I got to go into young women's and introduce her. We also brought a flower that reminded us of our daughter. Mackenzie picked out the dark purple wisteria vine. I looked up the information about the wisteria and found out that it grows in large quantities and loves to climb, in addtion to being beautiful and smelling wonderful. I shared with the other young women how lucky they are to get the chance to get to know one of my favorite people. Mackenzie is an amazing person and so much fun to be around. She loves to read and is brilliant. She has enough facial expressions to fill a book, some more pleasant than others. She's beautiful and spunky, creative and hard working. She's growing into an amazing young woman and I am honored to be her mother. Happy Birthday! I love you!