Birthday Bash

My little girl is three. She seems so grown up I can't believe it.

This whole week she was so excited about her party. Every day she would ask, "Is today my birtday party?" Finally, Saturday came. I think the party was quite a success.

{Pictures courtesy of my friend Lisa. She is awesome and just offered to snap some pictures of the party and of course, did a great job.}

Here is the food I made.

Did you see those cupcakes?

Brought to you by yours truly. I can do anything with YouTube to help me ;). 

(Actually they were super easy. The petals are just mini marshmallows cut in half and dipped in colored sugar. 

Frosting is too intimidating for me, so I opted for something more fool-proof.)

Here is the caterpillar cake. Dan helped.

(Can you tell I felt guilty for doing absolutely nothing last year for her?)

Here's my birthday girl, wearing her new outfit from Grammy Roberts.

Here are the guests. (The ones we could coax into sitting down for ten seconds. No, actually we're only missing one.)

Violet is third from the left.

Here is our professional, very expensive, balloon man.

(Available for hire.)

He's got mad skills now.

(Notice the awesome shirt.)

Luke enjoyed being held by various females throughout the day.

Blowing out the candles.

(There are three candles in there, despite what it looks like.)

It took three blows, and help from Hunter ;).

Violet chose the head.

Nicholas looks especially delighted with the cake. :)

(He's the one in red, next to Violet.)

Opening presents.

Luke got all tuckered out during the festivities.

(This is my friend Natalia from Moldova.)

Violet tried to play with as many presents as possible ;).

The real fun began when we busted out the pinata.

The kids took turns hitting it with a stick, which apparently did nothing to weaken this bunny.

That bunny did have quite the evil face.

Then we tried a real bat.

Still we had to recruit some adult help on this.

After about a half an hour, I think we got all the candy out.

Violet thought the whole thing was a smashing success. ;)

Happy Birthday, Violet! We are so lucky to have you as a part of our family.