Addison's 3rd Birthday!!

We've been celebrating Addie's birthday for three days straight pretty much! Well, the past three days, and also last Sunday...so um she may start thinking that birthdays are really birthweeks. I'm okay with it though- she's got a lot of people who love her and spoil her and want to get in on the celebrating. Jed went out of town Friday and today, her actual birthday, so we called Thursday her birthday. Hey, she's 3, she doesn't know if it's the 6th or the 8th right?

Addie started the day by coming downstairs and opening some presents from me and Jed and seeing her balloons and streamers hung everywhere. She was excited!

She LOVES tea sets, baking stuff and play food....no idea why ;)

After she played for a bit, she and I made some PINK blueberry muffins for breakfast.

Ashley was here and helped me set some stuff up that morning and prep for her friend princess party. We took her to preschool, along with mini cupcakes for her class (more on preschool in a later post) 

and then kept on decorating and getting everything ready.

There were princess things EVERYWHERE and LOTS of PINK! 

The party favors- personalized crown-shaped cookies tied with a little wand.

 Since Addie has a lot of little princesses and princess barbies, we used it all to decorate

Somehow I didn't remember to take many pictures of the decorations......

 Probably because I took SO many of the mini-cakes that Ash and I made.

I have to say, these turned out as cute as I'd hoped and imagined they would. The idea popped into my head at 4am on day when I was wide awake with pregnancy insomnia. They were almost too cute to eat :)

 Ashley did me a solid and wore my Snow White costume for the party

Addie was so happy about it! Of course she had already demanded to wear her Aurora dress too.

 I should clarify, Ashley didn't just come dressed up.....I had her hide from the other girls upstairs till they were all there then I announced I had a special friend there....look at the girls reactions. Love it.

 Kallie (in yellow) was terrified at first and a few were stand-offish but warmed up eventually.

It was very cute. They really thought she was Snow White!

 She gave them all princess crowns and then invited them to the table for a princess tea party!

 Addie loved it...well she loves pb&j and lemonade so I couldn't really lose there. Plus she loves tea parties. We have pretend ones daily.

 The girls all sipped their "tea" and ate some snacks

Then it was time for cake! Look how excited Addie was to eat her Snow White cake! 

Love it!

I swear it took her like 4 minutes to blow out 3 candles...so dainty ;)

The girls ate their cakes while the adults snacked, chatted and played Paparazzi 

Then Addie opened her presents, with assistance from her guests. It was funny, they all helped her rip them open. Then they all preceded to play with the toys. It was a lot of fun for the girls it seemed.

 I tried and failed to get a great shot of all the girls with Snow White. This is the best I got.

Still cute.

So....about 5 minutes after the second to last little princess left, I remembered that I never brought out the pinata! Addie has been asking for one for months for her birthday. At that point we figured we may as well break it open. So she and Eden took some whacks at it with the light saber (worlds colliding? lol)

 We knew it wasn't going to break and eventually Jed just broke it open- oooh CANDY!

It was such a fun party. The girls were all so darling! We've got a fun little group of neighborhood girls and it was fun to have them and a couple other little friends celebrate with us. 

Thanks for all who came!!

Yesterday, Addie told me "I think it's still my birthday though" Hey why not kid, live it up.

Grandma and Grandpa Rees came over and she got another fun present and played with them for awhile.

She spent the rest of the evening putting a baby my little pony to sleep and potty in her little house.

 This morning, we celebrated her birthday, yes again...by going to breakfast with her aunts (Jed's sisters and our sister in law) and Jed's parents. I'm glad that she embraced her birthday being a whole weekend so I could still have her actual birthday be a little special. 

Me and my princess...yes, my little girl wore a crown to breakfast. Oh, and a tutu skirt. 

Addie with her cousins, Tristan and Emmett

 After that we went to Jed's parents' house so they could give her a present 

She was so excited about her new kitchen 

and also about bubble wrap.

That about sums up the birthday celebrating! Wow, after blogging this I think I have an idea why I'm so tired today! I loved throwing Addie parties, playing with her and having family and friends share it with us!