6 Years Ago...

6 Years Ago...11:23 am

Jaden Danielle Creger made her entrance into this world.

I thought this day would never get here. The first time I saw her was through the nursery window at the hospital. It was two hours before we got to see her up-close.

I knew from that moment that this is one special girl!

The very first picture I took of Jaden...

6 months old...

working on her make-up...

This little angel at her first Czech Festival Parade...who then threw a fit and got to go home before enjoying the Czech Festival itself!


Jaden is a HUGE animal lover. She says she wants to be a Vet/Zookeeper when she grows up.

I told her she will have to go to OSU to be a vet...she says she will make her daddy mad if she goes to OSU. She is still considering her college choices...

The little girl who went through a period where she jumped off any object she could find...

mostly just to scare her Nanny!

The greatest Big Sister to Addison

A constant source of laughter...and messy faces!

The proud "sister" of two "brothers", their yellow labs Hoss and Dakota, and

her "sister" AJ, the boston terrier the girls received for Christmas last year

Jaden - your Aunt Niece never imagined that six years would fly by so fast. You are growing up way too fast. Just yesterday you were 6 lbs 9 oz and only 21 1/4 inches long. Now you are 6 years old, and you are going to be a lot taller than me before you know it.

You love to sing at the top of your lungs...and you don't care who hears you

You are sometimes annoyed by Addie...but are the first to come to her rescue

You make me laugh...especially when I am trying to be serious

I love you Jaden...

Jaden's 6th Birthday Party

Jaden's Birthday is not until Tuesday, but she had her party on Sunday afternoon. Jaden had her party at Dynamo Gymnastics and Play Zone. The girls are lucky because Paula's friend Shannon and her husband Dennis own the gym. They pretty much have the run of the whole gym and both take a gymnastics class here once a week.

Jaden and her friends started out playing in the gym, jumping on the trampoline, hanging on the bars, and the activity of choice...swinging on the rope and falling into the foam pit!

All the kids took turns beating this pinata...

They all enjoyed playing in the Play Zone too. All the kids love these slides. The Red One in the middle is the "fast slide". Jaden did ask her Aunt Niece to go down the slides with her once.

Of course I couldn't tell her no, it is her birthday!

Addie loves these slides!

And finally a picture of the Birthday Girl. I took this while everyone was singing to her. She was cracking me up. She was looking at all of her friends as they sang, and then she saw me with my camera. She gave me time to take some really good pictures. It has only taken six long years...but I think she is finally trained. If she would give me good pictures the camera would go away much faster!

I asked her last night if she had a good time at her party. She told me it was her favorite birthday so far!

I hope you had a great day...

Trick-Or-Treat 2008

Trick-Or-Treat 2008 was a huge success! The girls really enjoyed dressing up, and it was fun for Aunt Niece too.

The three of us just went to the houses on their block...but the girls were very happy with the candy they received. Later they spent the night with Nanny and Papa and trick-or-treated on that block too.

Trick-Or-Treat!

Jaden as Tinkerbell. To say that Jaden loves Tinkerbell is putting it mildly. The Tuesday before Halloween Jaden knew that the Tinkerbell movie was coming out on DVD and made sure that Nanny went to Wal-Mart to buy it for her...on Tuesday! Jaden has a birthday coming up that will also feature Tinkerbell.


Addie decided she wanted to be a witch.

But not just any witch...a MEAN WITCH!


One more of Tinkerbell


and of course the MEAN WITCH

Happy Halloween!