Alina Turns 3!!

Alina is 3 today and on the table this morning she found her favorite breakfast cereal and 4 Care Bear books. She was very excited.

Since Alina turned 3 today she has promised us that when she's 3 she'll stop sucking her thumb and go in the potty all the time, we'll see. But right now she's watching a movie and sucking on her thumb.

Yesterday we had her birthday party with my family at our home. We almost didn't have the party because Alina had been sick for a week and I had the flu the day before, but yesterday morning we were both cured.

We started off the day by having Austin and Greta go to friends so that we could take Alina shopping. She picked out a barbie doll and we went to Costco and she got to eat lots of treats since they were giving out samples, I think that was her favorite part. At one time she had two samples in her hand and looked at her dad and said, "ha ha, I have two treats."

That night everyone in my family (minus Ryan since he's in Peru) were there. It was so fun to have almost all of us together. We put up the Vortex for the kids to slide down. Alina had two of her friends Brooklyn and Sara come to the party. It started raining, but we kept the slide up anyways, we figured they were already wet.

Even Shannon and Shane went down the slide.

Then Alina opened her presents. She got a princess dress from Aunt Shan, a playdough set from Tessa and Kevin, and from my parents coloring books, a barbie table set, and Labryinth the movie. Me and my sisters loved Labryinth when we were kids, and Shannon has helped pass the tradition on to love the Goblin King to my kids. Alina loved it all and didn't want to share any of it.

Since I was sick the day before I didn't have time to make a Care Bear cake for Alina, so we went to Costco to pick one out and she also picked out creamies instead of ice cream. The kids got out the playdough and made a huge fun mess.

Then I tried to get Alina to look at me and smile while playing with her new barbie set and she just refused.

Shan and Greta. Cam, Holly, and Alina.

Me, Alina, Shannon, Cayden, Austin, Carson, and Greta.

Austin and Greta stole the camera and took silly pictures.




And this is how I found Alina after we said goodbye to everyone. It was a great day.