Sweet Sallie is 8!!!

It really is hard for me to believe that it has been 8 years our sweet Sallie came into our lives. Each year her birthday is a strange time for me. I reflect a lot. I am flooded by lots of emotions. I feel blessed. I feel thankful. I remember that I had no idea if she would live to be 1 much less 8. I long for more and more progress. I remember where we have been. I remember the times when life seemed so hard that I just couldn't take it anymore. I remember the strain on our marriage. I remember God using that to strengthen our marriage in an incredible way. I remember that HE used our trials to change us, to humble us, to draw us closer to Him, to touch lives in a special way. However, each year I can look back at it all and have something else to be thankful for and so I have to say that each year although I still lose it at least once I am thankful that I have that time each year to not only celebrate Sallie but to celebrate our trials. That was the title of our Sunday School lesson yesterday, "Celebrating our Trials" Really, how awesome is our GOD?! I try to never let all of that overshadow celebrating her birthday but God has used our little Sallie in such an incredible way just in our lives and I can't help but to reflect and to celebrate (with tears and laughter)!

It really has been a great year for Sallie. Not a lot of surgeries and procedures. Her aids have been in a lot more. Just over the past few weeks she has become much more verbal. It is still mostly sounds but they are resembling words. She really has matured in a lot of ways.

Sallie eating her favorite for b'fast-egg sandwhich (with LOTS of mayo) and cranberry juice!!!
Her Sun School teacher gave her this play set that had this tiara in it and she did not take it off until bedtime. These two together bring tears to my eyes. They have an amazing bond! To this day if Sallie gets sick or has to have a procedure she wants her daddy or Grandy if he is around. They have an incredible bond also. No matter how long it has been since they have seen each other last she goes right back to Grandy!
Millie and Lizzie singing Happy bday to Sallie!She loves all the attention!
Thank you God for entrusting such a sweet gift to us!
Best attempt at a shot of the 4 Hall girls!

Too SWEET for words...

Present time!!!

Every girl needs some Vera Bradley!!!

Loving the ICarly dolls

All about a tank top!

The birthday girl and her look a like! Millie looks more like her every day!

My other 2 look alikes!

She had a great day! We had planned to take her shopping on Saturday but since A got the race tickets we will do that in the next couple of weeks. She LOVES to shop and we just don't all go shopping so she will love to be able to go and buy things just for her!

I will tack this on to this post since it did happen yesterday. We were coming home from Red Springs yesterday and Elleigh was saying something about A and I making "googly eyes" at each other and she said "yall make me sick!" Millie starts screaming "NO, don't make me sick, don't make me sick!" It was hilarious!!! We had to calm her down and assure her no one was going to "make her sick!"

I actually did 2 posts today so there is another post below this one.