Today I am thankful for:

Today I am thankful for my child.  She is definitely a mini me.  We baked cookies tonight and pushed all of each other's buttons; but we laughed and learned.  I have no pictures; just the memories.

I know I brag on her a lot, but I am her mom and that is my job...  I am honestly so in awe of her talents and her incredible smartness.  On Friday she was given 40 periodic table elements to memorize with the correct symbols and atomic numbers and the girl got it after looking at the paper three times.  Her ability to remember is so impressive.  On Saturday, I had the best time with her.   She had a lego league competition.  It was so impressive.  Twenty two teams built robots out of legos and programmed them to do certain tasks on a board; like push a lego ambulance to a runway.  I have pictures, but I am still in the process of getting everything back on my hard drive.  Any way - my point... I was looking at the future generation of engineers and it was highly impressive.   And, my daughter was right in the middle of it.  

I love her heart.  She is a sweet girl that never wants to hurt anyone's feelings.  She is a very loyal friend.  She wants to make sure no one feels left out and everyone feels included.  She always tries to help her friends out if they need it.  She helps them with their math and the physics portion in Science.  

She is my baby and she always will be.  I am so excited to see what all she is going to accomplish.  She has turned into a wonderful young adult and I can't wait to see all that God has in store for her.  

I love you, Elexis.  

Taken a couple of weeks ago.