My girl

My girl had her 3rd!!!! birthday last month. May 26th. It feels so strange to have entered this place where all I have are "big kids" running around now. Alyssa ask for a ladybug party and a ladybug party is what she got! I love birthdays! Its your very own special day to celebrate the very simple fact that today you were born, the day you were blessed with life. And life is beautiful! The day my babies were born are some of my most favorite days.



I have so many favorite pictures from this day. I tried my very best to narrow it down to my favorites, and I'm afraid I failed miserably!



*a note to the grandparents........you can click on these pictures to see the bigger version*








I adore this one. She has her eyes squished closed waiting for her presents.

I never thought that I would have more fun planning a birthday if I was making most everything myself. I didn't know I had it in me! Thatcher even had a hand in making her shirt!

The cake was so amazing. I loved it! I wish I could say I made the cake too, but I learned my lesson along time ago, I cannot make cakes! I actually attempted to make Jacob's first birthday cake and oh my goodness, it was not pretty!

One of her presents was a sprinkler. Oh how they love that sprinkler! They are slow to warm up but when they do, they go all out. Jacob and Alex spent most of the time "flying" over it on the zip line. Alyssa would only get just close enough to feel a tiny sprinkle, at first anyway.

*No one is allowed to make fun of my cookies!* So stop laughing :)

I'm kidding!

And at the end of her special day, she was riding off into the sunset!

Happy 3rd Birthday Alyssa!!!