Birthday Weekend~ Again!

I know her party was last weekend but since her bday is Tuesday technically this is her bday weekend!! We started it by going to a carnival at a local elementary school. She had fun running around and playing games but riding the fire*truck was by far her favorite thing! I think you could hear her squeals over the sirens!


She did love the face painting and her nails that are now black and orange : )


We came home and she took a much needed nap then when she awoke I had a bday gift ready for her to open. It was the newly released "Sleeping Bea*uty" and she decided we should watch it and eat s'mores : ) Well, we started watching the movie and ordered pizza. Let me say, she has watched a lot of Dis*ney movies but I have never seen her so mesmerized...she sat with me in the chair and gasped, clenched her fists, tensed up , laughed and cheered at all the right times. As daddy said, they hit their target market : )

Then the movie went off and she said "oh no too late no chocolate" Then I realized that she thought we couldn't do s'mores now that the movie was off..ha ha...no honey, we can!! She loved them of course as you can see!

Daddy was listening to the game since it is on pay p view and we aren't paying for that ... she obviously loved joining him : )

Sweetness!

I haven't gotten her moved to the bigger room and out of her current room but today she and I did put her bedding on the bed and she loved just hanging out in there : ) I need to paint the room and stain her furniture but she didn't mind.


A birthday package arrived from Gigi and she loved everything (including the Hallo*ween shirt~ not sure about the look LOL)


She pulled this out and announced "orange white Tennessee Annslee love" She hugged up with it and then I saw the note saying it was for Coby. Well, I didn't have the heart to tell her so I simply said "is that for you or Coby?" to see what she would say. She sweetly said "Annslee share Coby and Mama and Daddy...all family "

The funniest part was when she opened these two dogs from Litt*lest Pet Sh0p and exclaimed "whole life want dis" ha ha

My Pumpkin Lovin' Girl

Ok...I warned you, she LOVES pumpkins..almost to the point of being scary : ) We went to the local botanical gardens the other day to take some pics and she was not cooperative until I pulled out a pumpkin~ then she was a happy girl!!


She started kissing all over this little pumpkin and I said "ok, enough silly" and the bottom two are so HER!! Look at that little grin and those eyes~ we are in BIG trouble over here when she is a teenager!

I finally got it away from her to go look at the coy in the pond~ she got into this "pose" and let me know it was her "big girl" pose

Various groups design scarecrows and they are everywhere~ this was one of her favs (it is Hann.ah Mon*tanna)

This door leading to the Japan.ese gardens provided much entertainment


Just in case you thought she was all smiles~ here is one of her crazy faces! This one was at the end and signaled she was all done for today :)

Give me a P!

P is for Princess.Pumpkin Patch.Pet Shop.Pool.Party~ and that is just what we had! When we orginally planned her party she was all about it being a Dis.ney Princ.ess party but then she developed a serious love for pumpkins and so that was her cake (oh, and then she requested Litt.lest Pet Shop be added...silly girl)

Here she is ready to go in her Cind.erella shirt and pumpkin neclace LOL

Before everyone arrived I snapped a sweet picture of her with her cake : )

She was so excited about blowing out her candles!

I love the look of satisfaction on her face at getting those candles out~ I hope everything she wishes for comes true.

The top two I took while everyone sang to her...she had the sweetest look! Of course she really enjoyed licking the icing off the candles afterwards

I had a very hard time getting pics during the gift giving as 25 kids crowded around! She got a lot of fun stuff and a lot of LPS stuff!

After gifts we headed to the pool!!

Mia had to leave so Annslee came to the side for a goodbye kiss : )

She had such a great day!!! Now she thinks she is 4 so I guess she is taking 9 days away from 3 and adding it to 4~ we will of course do a family celebration on the 21st : )


*Check out Coby's site ... we have video from September and four new pictures from last week! The videos are on a journal page.

We have a winner!

I thought we were going to have it easy this year when it came to deciding on a Hall*oween cost*ume as she started talking about being Ar*iel a while back. She was so set on it that I saw it on sale and in her size in September so I snatched it up. She tried it on and loved it so I thought we were done! Then she started talking about not having red hair (mind you she was a black haired Tinker*bell last year) and we thought of spray paint and wigs...but she was not sold on either idea

Then one day she decided to play the wicked stepmother from Cinder*ella. In case you haven't seen the movie lately this is her rendition of her holding out the glass slipper in Cindy III right before she drops it and it shatters : )

Hey, remember she did love Cindy last year at Di$ney so hmmmmm

I guess somewhere in the back of her mind she also remembered meeting Jas*mine! (just look at that excitement)

I waited a while to make sure she was set on Jas and her matching black hair and when I felt pretty sure I started the bidding~ I won and got the whole outfit for less than the price of just the top and bottom at the store : ) We have been waiting for the mail to arrive all week and yesterday was the day! (yes, she dressed herself in a Valen*tine top and skirt LOL)

We didn't expect the crown and veil but that is her fav part!

I love the choice she made and so does she...she wore this around for a long time after it arrived and I am sure she will be putting it on several more times before the big night!

Oh no!!! This morning she was practice trick-or-trea*ting with daddy and this is the outfit she wore...daddy called her a bag lady~ hope she isn't switching again LOL

I love Hallo*ween and can't wait to hang out with our princess! Oh, her bday party is tomorrow so stay tuned for pics : )

THANK YOU!!!

Linda, Mikayla's mommy, sent us a sweet package for Coby and Annslee. She included this birthday gift for Miss A and she squealed when she opened it : ) She has been wanting LP stuff but I kept pointing out that it said 4+ on all of them so she couldn't get it until she was four (hey, it worked to stall her). Now that she is almost 4 she is thrilled to have this from a sweetie in our travel group. She also sent these adorable shoes for Coby and a much too generous Tar*get gift card. Thank you soooo much Aunt Linda and Mikayla!!

We also got the sweetest package from our Secret Buddy. She always spoils both Annslee and Coby and this time was no exception! Annslee got two games and some Fanc*y Nanc*y shoes and leggings. They are soooo cute! Coby got four new outfits and I love them. Connie will be jealous of the Mommy's Treasure one LOL

The best part about the treasure one is the back!!! Daddy can open that up ; )

One of the best parts of any package in the mail is the packing material. She always saves the tissue paper and wraps "gifts" for us to open. She will hand it to you saying "surprise" and you may get a pen, hairbow, or any other thing she finds. She was overjoyed to see this huge bubble wrap in Linda's package and spent a long time popping it




She would jump as high as she could and then dance around on it...it was loud and fun!!

Thank you so much for our special gifts...we are feeling the LOVE over here : ) I will be posting later about a cyber baby shower that sweet Kimberley is hosting for us on the 25th. You can go to her blog to read about it now.

Celebration of Cultures

Trying to catch up~ On Saturday we went to a local festival called Celebration of Cultures and it was such fun! One of the first things she spotted was a huge world map ~ you got a sticker then put in on the place you were born. Annslee ran up and grabbed a sticker then pointed to China. The girl lifted her up (sorry, I couldn't do it..I was taking the pictures LOL) and she put one on. This is the picture of her putting one on Vietnam for Baby Coby : )


She was the life of the party! In this collage: chatting with the lady in the Thailand booth, marching in the parade, walking around the Maypole and seeing the LION in the lion dance : )


I really tried talking up the Lion Dance as she always has been afraid of it in the past...each CNY she cries.. this time she LOVED it!! The fact that it was outside and not as loud helped but the biggest thing was the "baby lion" that she kept pointing to and waving at

Yep, a little excited!

We met up with Emma Grace and then saw her friend from dance class, Zoe there! (the other pics are her putting her sticker on China and getting a "henna tattoo"

She is literally obsessed with origami these days. There was an episode on Little Bi*ll about it and she was hooked. She folds paper all the time now saying "origami" Here she is at the Japan booth doing real origami and you can see how intense she was about it. She would have stayed there all day!

Painting is serious business too

The hoop races were a blast with Olivia and Lola!