Sunday, February 8, 2009

Happy Birthday To My first Born!

Charie Denise Socwell Francom
Born Feb. 11th, 1976

At 16 years old I had no idea how to be the best person I could be let alone be a good mother however Heavenly Father blessed me with this beautiful little girl anyway.
You see He knew that if I put my trust in Him and did the best I knew how things would work out and this sweet little thing became one of my best friends.
Can you see Evie in that cute face?

Charie is three years old in this picture. I wanted my girls to have something to wear besides hand me downs from my little brothers so I took apart a dress of mine and made this dress for Charie. It's not so great but I was so happy that it fit for the most part and it was a pink girlie dress.So HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARIE!!!

I know it's not the 11th yet but we had a fun early Birthday bash


Yes, we made the favorite cake again but I decided to make it in teirs...as you can see all the Rasberry topping and frosting decoration slid to the bottom.



No one seemed to care...it was still tasty!

Heather joined us for dinner, cake and a sleep over.

Grandpa Archie eluded any of the pictures and chased and played with the kids until he fell asleep on the couch.

Kai showed us his missing tooth (the one awaiting the tooth fairy). He also showed us his amazing moves while playing his Transformers Wii game...I wish I would have gotten some pictures of that!

I had made Nhaya some earrings and she had to try all eight of them on...so we had a earring fashion show.

She is such a cutie and growing up so fast!




Merced got to open a belated Birthday present from Auntie T.

She loved her book...and so did her siblings.


Evie was so excited about everything! She showed me all her new things and we played games and we played "pretend". She was the mom, I was the baby and Nhaya was the sister. The baby was supposed to lay in her bed and sleep, sister was being a tease and stirring things up and mom didn't quite know what to do. After a big sigh we were all told to go to a time out!


Merced loved walking...well trying to...walk around in Grandpa Archie's shoes.


All in all it was a great weekend.

14 comments:

Heather Aleece said...

Cute Cute! I love the old baby pictures. Truely, they are awesome

bonnie said...

I love to see the pictures of the kids when they were little again. They are such cuties!!!

Seeing all the fun you and the grandkids have was great. No wonder they love it when grandma comes.

Hollie said...

these pictures are all so dang cute! i can't believe how much evie looks like charie. well, i guess it does make sense. i'm so excited to have nieces and nephews.

Rosie Moncrief said...

Wow, that cake looks AMAZING!!!! Charie's kids are so cute!

kathy said...

I've always admired your "mom skills". I sometimes think starting young is best because you just go with the flow and don't know any different! You have raised some pretty awesome kids, and it looks like your grandkids are going to be just as good!

Angie said...

Looks like you had a great time! The cake looks great. You did a great job with your girls. You should be very proud!

Charie and Jonathan Francom said...

Mom you are the best mommacita ever!!! Seriously it meant so much to me that you drove down here even though I had sick kids just to make me a cake. My first birthday back in Utah after 7+ years and you made it really special and memorable for me. Thank you!

Also thank you for Nhaya's earrings because I plan on borrowing them all and I know I will be able to because Nhaya is an excellent sharer! You are an awesome grandma! and Archie is an amazing tolerant grandpa to let the kids maul him ;)

Trisha said...

I wasn't informed of the amazing earring giveaway. I hope to get a girl sometime so that I can share things like this with her :)

Mom, the cake was delicious...mmmm, the layers and all...

Denise said...

Debbie,
I wanted to let you know how much I admired you growing up. Thanks for raising such good girls and being such a good example to all those around you. I can't believe how much Charie looks like Evie-too cute.
Denise Petersen Jorgensen

airteresa said...

AWESOME weekend! I'm glad you had a great time. teresa

Angie said...

Yes, I got my big TV. Yeah! I love it you and Archie will have to come see it! It looks great!

kk Leilani said...

I think you're an awesome, loving, amazing mom. I still remember when you sent me some wonderful things in a package you sent to Charie on the mission. I love your family and for all that you all teach me. You're all babes and you're all wonderful. Much love

Seantae Jackson said...

So I just noticed on Trisha's blog that you had a blog! So excited for that!

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