Happy Birthday Brianna!

On June 16th Brianna Rose turned 3 years old! Can you believe it? Everyone always tells you how fast it goes but it's hard to really KNOW until you're actually going through it.

Since we were in Idaho the weekend before her birthday, we went ahead and had her major birthday party there, where most of her family and friends are. It was a pretty wild scene, family and tiny tots everywhere!

And of course she got plenty of presents and was pretty much spoiled rotten as usual.

This was her major present though, you know, the one you pull out of the closet at the last minute, after all the rest have been opened? This year her big present was a "pedaling bicycle" as she calls it, complete with basket, bell, and tassels. She was just ready for a big girl trike. And, it's taken her a little while but just in the past few days she's really started to get the hang of the whole pedaling thing, although it frustrated the heck out of her at first. Some of the other big hits of the day were her "Woody" doll from Toy Story and a new movie, "The Rescue-skeevers" (The Rescuers).

The highlight of the party though, at least for the kids, was the lighting and then eating of the cupcake tower.

This year Brianna even helped to make her own cupcakes since she loves to cook so much, and then she decorated them herself...they had LOTS of multi-colored sprinkles. It was a very special day!

The next weekend, for Bree's actual birthday we kept it low key. (Well, we HAD a gift we were going to give her but the little spy eyes found it early (a Jesse (from Toy Story) doll) and we went ahead and gave it to her then. So no presents for her on the 16th. So, we just spent a quiet day together, enjoying each other's company and reminiscing.

Can you believe that she's gone from this:

to this:

in just 3 short years. (sniff) Crazy! (Isn't she cute in her little Birthday Princess crown and clip on ear rings?)