Seven Years Ago!

Happy Birthday Emma!

On August 16th, we celebrated Emma's seventh birthday with an early morning treasure hunt that lead her to some surprise birthday gifts including her very first bicycle. Emma was very excited to try out her new wheels and spent most of the day circling our parking lot with her purple "baby shark"! At this rate, the training wheels will be off pretty soon. That evening Emma blew out her candles shared birthday cake (Mommy's homemade ice cream cake hmmm) with our friends, the Enns family, who joined us for games and a sleep over. We all had a great time with our birthday princess.

We also had a great birthday lunch out at a local Indian Restaurant with Tim Bannister and a group from the Altadore Baptist Church (Calgary, Aberta). They have been serving with the African Brotherhood Church in a number of water projects and came into the city on Saturday to visit with us and do some shopping. Emma had a great time playing in the sand at the restaurant's playground with her brother and sister. She and Tristan enjoyed a game of human bowling down a slide into a stack of tires.