HAPPY 17th B-DAY NIAH!

Today is May 1 2015. It has been 17 years since my baby girl was born. Time has flown by so fast that I can't even imagine she only has one year left in high school and then she will be spreading her wings getting ready to fly on her own.

She is our last child and just thinking about her leaving makes me sad and I know I will have empty nest syndrome once she takes flight. But at the same time it so exciting to see her make those choices that will determine the rest of her life.

But for now I will enjoy every minute I have with her. She has become such an amazingly strong, spiritual, young woman this past year. I have watched her develop and become so beautiful both inside and out. She is truly ones of God's special daughters! She has become so mature and such a leader to all all her friends. I am truly blessed to have been entrusted by our Heavenly Father to have had the privilege along with my husband to have her in our family!

The Lord knew I would need a strong sprit to help me through these last couple years and boy is she ever so compassionate, caring, and most of all tough! She inspires me each day to take care of myself. She told me the other day that since I have to be down again with this new treatment that she will take over as woman of the house and whip her dad and older brother into shape! We laughed together but come to find out she was dead serious!! haha! She told me that I have to back her up in this role! LOL!

I am so grateful for this 17 year old sweetheart and I made her a slideshow for her birthday today! We also had a surprise birthday party for her.  We planned it with her best friend Sammy. It was such a success. We had over 12 pizzas and 100 cupcakes and they were all gone by the end of the party.  We must have had over 150 kids coming and going all night! The kids loved swimming, hot tubbing, and hanging out around the fire pit listening to music. It was quite the noisy party but such a fun time for good kids to come to a safe place to have so much fun!

Niah was so thankful for this party and couldn't thank us enough! It was all worth it to see the surprise on her face when all of her friends came to wish her a happy birthday!

These are some of her pictures that I put in the slideshow from her Junior year. 

Shaniah kept extremely busy from dances, to swim, to lacrosse,  to powder puff football and basketball. She loved every minute of it and I had so much fun just watching her go!!

LOVE THIS GIRL!

HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY NIAH!