Welcome to the Royal Ball (Park) - Lucy's 3rd Birthday

For Lucy's 3rd Birthday Adam and I hosted a Royal Ball! We sent an invitation to all of her friends and sent a ball gown in the mail to all the little girls. One of the great things about being a dance teacher is extra costumes!! I happened to have blue Cinderella ball gowns on hand and sent them out with the invitation. We asked the boys to wear their baseball uniforms. Lucy wanted to have her party at "dad's office" and wanted to wear her ball gown so this is how the party came together. The ball park was the background which was great but I was struggling with the decor...as you can tell. Our friends are so amazing and all came out to the party in the heat (5:00pm in August was not the ideal time to host an outdoor party) and celebrated with us. We are so blessed by our family and friends!

It is so hard to believe that Lucy is 3 years old. She is so precious!

This birthday girl was SO excited!I

Our party favors were magic star wands and baseball cookies with the #3 on them. They were a bigger hit than the cake.

Party Area!

I had to snap it...and post it. She was so tired of me taking pictures of her and the party had not even started. You know your a mom when even your child's pouty face melts your heart!

So excited to see our first guests!

This cake looks very much like last years. I have come to the realization that I love polka dots. If you would have asked me I would not have said I loved them but they appear on everything I do. The cake was so yummy!

Happy 3rd Birthday!

Lola was SO excited to see Fave...okay we all were but check out this greeting!

Lucy and Fave, Lucky us to have Fave join the party!

FAVE!!!

These girls are such buddies! Johanna was in Lucy's class during the school year and Lola's during the summer. She is such a little sweetie.

Lola and Johanna checking out each others princess look!

Lola, Lucy and Johanna chowing down on some pizza

Parker wasn't really feeling the party, so Lucy was trying to convince her it was going to be fun!

Oh so cute! Libby in her shades, I love love love this picture!

Anne Marie & Lucy

Lucy and Connor! Best buddies!

The 3 amigos - Lucy, Lola and best buddy Connor

The kids waiting for the cake

Sound asleep but in his baseball gear.

Sweet Lola fearless and wondering around in her own little world.

I love this picture of Lucy in her gown in a circle of boys!

My sweet mom! She was in charge of Hank the whole party...and did a great job he slept the entire party! They are big time buddies!

Lucy telling Johanna a big story! I can't even begin to think what she is saying!

Dylan and Will - cuties in baseball attire!

The kids + many more running in the birthday parade.

Her birthday could not be complete without Rusty and Sammy!

Happy 3rd Birthday Sweet Lucy!

Happy 3rd Birthday Lucy. You mean the world to Dad and I. You have such a sweet nature and are such a kind little spirit. You are always eager to please people and do so in such a loving manner. You are a wonderful big sister to Lola teaching her everything you can about life. You are helping her learn many new words by asking her to repeat after you and she does every time because she thinks you are the greatest! You are so gentle with Hank and ask to hold him or to snuggle with him at least one time every day. You sing to him in your darling high pitched singing voice. You have such an incredible imagination and it keeps Dad and I on our toes. You have a friend named "Big Girl" who hangs around the house and who you talk to a lot. You also teach school to the decal dots on your wall. You love to dance and teach others to dance. We spend hours coloring a day and you are so great at it. You love drawing circles. You have a wonderful vocabulary and use words that you must here from me a lot. I got Hank dressed yesterday and in your tiny voice you said to him "Oh my goodness Hank you look adorable". You are such a lover and give snuggles to each of us all the time. You love making others feel good about themselves. You love to read stories and make up pretend ones. We read to you before nap and bed time and how ever many we choose is never enough. You can recite almost every single book in your room. You have gotten adventurous at bedtime and ask us to leave the door to your room open - "Can you leave the door cracked open?" Almost every time we do you venture down stairs for one or snuggle or to tell us something "very important". I have a hard time taking you back to bed because you convince we whatever you came down for was well worth the trip. You love leading us all in prayers at meal time and seem to know the important role God plays in your life. You told me yesterday you were God's Princess and I melted. Lucy you are a gift from the Lord and I feel so honored to be your mom. It is hard to imagine that 3 years ago today you came into this world and have impacted us so much. Your spirit is captivating. I am blessed to get to watch you learn and grow. We love you so much honey! Happy 3rd Birthday!

Birthday Fun with Grammie!

Lucy's 3rd birthday is tomorrow. My mom is here to celebrate this awesome event. Today we took Hank out for his first of many "girls days". Grammie, Lucy, Lola, Hank and I went get pedicures and our hair done. It was such a perfect memorable day where everything just fell into place, everyone was in great moods and we all had a blast.

Here is Grammie and Lola spinning in the chair while Lucy is getting her hair cut.

Lucy with her new hair cut

Lucy getting her haircut.

Lola's final cut

Lola getting her haircut

Check out how relaxed they are

Lucy is all about the pedicure

I love these little feet!

Guess who's? Miss Lola Caroline and her cute little piggies!

Lola wasn't too sure at first but LOVED every minute. She sat still and was cracking everyone up. The lady asked me "Does she know how funny she is?" I had to laugh because that is right on...she is so stinking funny!

I love this picture...poor Hank just hanging out waiting on the girls to get finished.

I just love these girls - many more pedi's in our future!

Here we are...my mom was hanging with Hank snapping our pictures!

Hank and his sweet smile!

Hank is the smiliest baby ever! He loves giving us smiles and it melts my heart!! He is cooing and just precious! His first smile hit exactly at 6 weeks. He melts ALL of our hearts! As you can see below the girls are IN LOVE with him!

Jennie & Ella's Visit

This past week my sister Jennie and her sweet daughter Ella came to spend time with us. Adam had games so he was busy and it was scheduled to be my first time doing bedtime with all 3 kids for several days in a row. Duh Duh Duh...Jennie came to the rescue. She came and helped me in so many ways. She is amazing. Helped entertain our kids which was easy with Ella. Ella is 4 months younger than Lola and Lucy and Lola just love her. In fact, since they left Lola has "called" Ella on the phone almost everyday. Jennie also really has helped me sleep train Hank to hope that he will be sound asleep through the night soon :) We went to our friends house for a sprinkler play date, Jennie and Ella threw Lucy a birthday party since they will miss hers here and we even managed to take all 4 kids to the baseball stadium for a baseball game. The girls got a ton of play time in, Jennie and I got some awesome time together and it was just the perfect trip. We don't get to spend that much quality time nearly enough which stinks because it was so wonderful!

Compare the cuties!

Lucy

Lola

Hank