The big 40

I can't believe my baby is now a 40 year old.  Where does time go?  Ambur is such a special person.  She arrived a little unconventially, but none the less she made it right into my arms and I have been grateful for her beauty, kindness, laugh, sense of humor ever since.  

As a baby she was just a delight she smiled and laughed and she slept through the night and I cherished my moments with her.  Not a day in the past 40 years has gone by where I didn't thank my heavenly father for her in my life.

We have certainly had some rolling emotions along the journey, but she is obedient (to some that is a surprise) and loving.  She loves with a passion and she is giving and kind.  I can't really write about her without telling at least one story of some challenges.  She is smart that is for sure and she has also been a little sneaky throughout her years.  I celebrate her today by sharing one of my favorite stories about her.

We were living in Arizona and I came home from work one day and as I walked up the sidewalk to the front door, there were Barbie dolls everywhere.  (I am not a fan of the barbie doll, but Ambur had probably a hundred or more of them).  So, I went into the house and let her know that if I find them out there again, I am going to pick them up and throw them in the garbage.  She showed her pouty face (which she is good at) and said sorry and went into her room.  In my mind, I think, that was a great little learning lesson.  It turned out that it was a great learning lesson.  Not for her, but for me, I went home a week or so later and much to my surprise, there were barbie dolls all out by the front porch again.  I felt so badly that I was going to have to pick them up and her not have them.  But I did it, I think there were probably about 25 or so and I picked every one up and in the garbage it went.  Imagine the lesson I envisioned she was going to learn about as I entered the house.  I looked at her and she looked at me with a strange look and I said, "well, I am sorry, but I did warn you what would happen if you left your barbies in the front yard again,"  She looked at me and said, "yes, I thought it through and cut a bunch of my barbies hairs and then took the clothes and shoes off and left them out there because I knew you would pick them up and I didn't have to."  She outsmarted me.  There are many outsmarting stories about this girl because she is good at it.

I guess it is part of her charm.  She has gone through a lot with her eyes including surgeries, eye patches, not being able to drive, being made fun of, tripping, falling etc, etc. and she has learned to rise above it all.  She sometimes has to really work at it, but she does it and I am so proud of her.

For her birthday we headed to St. George.  We have been seeing advertisements for Olive Garden that appealed to us so we went and had an early lunch with some favorites that had returned and then we headed to mesquite for a little fun in the sun then we headed back to St. George and ordered the other items we wanted to go.  We picked them up and headed home and got there before dark and it was just great.

We had a really fun day together and it was great weather and got some warm sunshine in Mesquite and had fantastic food and some good treats.  I love this girl and am grateful for her in my life.  She is so helpful and supportive and she listens to me whine and complain and she just loves me anyhow.  I love how much she loves her friends, her companion, Gimlet, her nephews and nieces and her brother.  She is responsible and good to call her dad and speak to him often and keep up to date on her Grandma Davis and it makes me feel good that she does that.  She is an amazing woman and I love her and am blessed.