A Crazy Fun 3rd Birthday Party

This past Saturday we had a crazy fun party for Norah's 3rd birthday. There were games with fabulous prizes, water fun in the pool and on the slip 'n slide, a dramatic downpour of rain in the midst of our delicious picnic, the best Dora cake ever made (in my opinion), and more presents than Norah could ask for! What really made it fun were all the friends and family that came to celebrate with us. We love you all!!! 

Once again, this is all thanks to our family... On Friday, Grandma Renee & Nona insisted on coming over to scrub our house to a shimmering sparkle while I made the cake. I think they wanted us to be proud to show off our new house to everyone, but knew we were short on time :) If that wasn't enough, Grandma Renee potted some flowers for us and brought over every last table and chair she had. Colin's sister Tegan put together some really fun games that the kids absolutely LOVED! She had picked out the best prizes too: fairy wings, sequined purses, tool sets, Dora markers, and on and on and on. She even found a Dora pinata where you pull ribbons to break it open instead of swinging a bat (because a 3 year old + a bat = ouch!). Tegan - You rock! Oh, and let's not forget the food. my in-laws made almost all of the food. 

They all worked so very hard so that Norah could have the Dora party of her little dreams. I know what you're thinking - how can we make our family work so hard!? We actually tried to calm them down and tell them to relax, but they are stubborn and insisted on doing all of this for us. Aren't we lucky!? They allowed this working mom to be able to take a day off and spend the whole thing going overboard on her daughter's cake :)

To our wonderful family: Thank you from the bottom of our hearts ~ xoxo



My little man taking part in some water fun















A Dora Cake Walk! So much fun!!










The kids got to fish for some pretty cool prizes :)






The ribbon pinata - I didn't even know that kind of pinata existed!






The dads stealing all the candy!! 




Finally, the coolest Dora cake ever!!!  It only took me all day to make this cake :)

Love ~ Renee