Aint it great...

...to be 8!!!

Here is Raegan, on the morning of her 8th birthday, receiving happy birthday wishes from afar.  Aunt Becca beat dad to it!  She is one happy gal:)

Favorite food: CREPES
Favorite filling: STRAWBERRIES & WHIP CREAM
Favorite duty: SLICE AND DICE IN FULL CONCENTRATION!

At grandma Ardens...opening gifts.  The cousins beside her are definitely much more comfortable with being on the "stage"..."center stage" that is.
Rae would rather get stuck in a 10 foot hole than have everyone watch her open gifts...I guess she did come straight from my womb:)

Favorite gift: SOCCER SHORTS AND SHIRT
**(aside from the beautiful gown below)**
As soon as she opened the soccer gear, she put it on and has worn it ever since.
She walked out the door to school the other day in it, and Shawn turns to me and says:
"I love it...just one the boys"
She truly is one of a kind...and I love it too. 

This is the gown.  What a masterpiece straight from a true 'labor of love'.
Grandma trudy is...
A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!
It is so beautiful.
A special post to come with more pictures of the beauty herself,
inside that beautiful gown:)

Presents from friends...

Mayci was a good sport...

And the build-a-bear crew:)  A really cute bunch of girls.
All in all, I think Raegan felt extremely special.
We went all out...in terms of "Farrah style all out" :)
She also got her ears pierced with the gang above...which happened to be great moral support.
Happy Birthday Rae!!!