The Birthday Girl

Here's our little peanut already 4 years old! While it's weird that she is four, it sometimes seems like she should be older. I don't know if that's because she is the oldest, she acts like she is 14, or if it's just because it's hard to remember life before being a mom. We had a lot of fun making her day fun and special.

This was her birthday table that we have set up all month.

We had her presents all set out waiting for her for when she woke up. The little stinker found her bike before her birthday so she already knew what she was getting. She was still very thrilled to actually be able to ride it.

I found a fun idea on pinterest to fill their room with ballons. After the kids were asleep we stayed up blowing up balloons for her room.

It was hard to get a good picture of it, but it turned out pretty cute.

She was thrilled in the morning. A while back my friend Addie and I made birthday pillowcases for our families. It was a fun easy tradition that we are starting to use. Audrey was very excited to switch pillowcases.

Because Pete is awesome he took the day off of work. This aloud Audrey and I to go get our nails done. This is not something that we normally do but we did it last year and she was in heaven.

A couple ladies commented on how well behaved she was. I told them that they have no idea how much she is soaking this up.

We then went and got her birthday outfit at Old Navy. I love getting my kids clothes there because their sales are amazing and their clothes are cute.

She picked to eat lunch at Pete Piper. Here she is with her loot. She had a pretty wonderful day.

The Party

She wanted to have an Ariel party, so that's what we tried to do. We had a little BBQ at my parents house. Grandma Carolyn suprised her and came all the way from Flagstaff, which was so nice! Of course I didn't take any pictures of anybody who came. Her cousin Elizabeth and their family came from Flagstaff too and lots of cousins. It seemed like there were a lot of little kids running around.

My lover cookin' up the hot dogs. They were so yummy, hot dogs just hit the spot sometimes and this night they hit the spot for me.

I couldn't believe how many present she got, the spoiled little thing.

She was loving every minute of it. She got tons of Ariel things and adores each thing she got. I never got around to thank you cards, which I know is awful.

She was VERY ancy to get home and open up all her new toys. Once we got home the first thing she got into was a jewlery box from her Uncle Greg and covered herself with jewels. She had a very very very happy birthday, and we are so blessed to have her in our family.

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