Dear Abigail,
Yowzers. You are 3 years old. Three. Like as in three years have gone by since this day...
You are some kind of special, too (which I'll expand on in another post), and, therefore, we celebrated your 3rd birthday in lots of special ways!!! You like to say that you had 5 birthday parties, but that's just silly. You only had 4 :) That's right, when it was all said and done, we celebrated your birthday FOUR times!! Told ya you were special! Let's start from the beginning...
Because your actual birthday is really close to sister Kate's due date, Mommy and Daddy decided we'd scoot your actual party up a couple weeks, just to play it safe and so Mommy could actually enjoy it. AND because Mommy was going to need help making this party extra special, we decided we'd have it at Mimi's house in Munford instead of our own (and there were a few other reasons, like, I don't know, our backyard can't hold 2 waterslides, a pool and 50 people - again, more on that later...)
This year, "you" decided that you wanted to invite everyone to join you "Under the Sea", and so we did. You are especially attached to mermaids these days, well, for almost a year now, and you are especially fond of the water, particularly water slides, so under the sea seemed to work out just great. And Mommy went C-R-A-Z-Y with the Under the Sea theme!! Just food alone was quite impressive, if I do say so myself :) Your birthday menu consisted of Octodogs, Tropical Chicken Salad, Sea Shells pasta (made by your BFF), Fruit of the Sea, Sea Salt chips, Fish food (chex mix), Crunchy Coral (veggies), and Saltwater Seaweed (spinach dip!). Delicious, to say the least! Oh, and we had Ocean Potion (blue fruit punch), Mermaidade (pink lemonade), and Under the Sea Tea to drink! Here's a few pics of the food...
Look at this fancy "crab sandwich" - your Uncle Jaybee has a hidden talent...
Mimi (along with a little help of Pic-pic, Ash-ash, Uncle Jay, Daddy, Uncle Jay-bee, Aunt Steph and Mommy) got her backyard super nice looking and all set up for the party. We had 2 water slides, a pool, tents, tons of seating, and even cute little flower decorations...
So here you are, all ready for this fabulous under the sea birthday party...
And guess what happens??? The bottom fell out of the sky. Your party started at 11, and at 11:10 we were all inside with the few exceptions of the crazy men holding the tents down through the monsoon..
This storm came out of no where, and was almost as impressive as your party. It made things a little chaotic, but we all handled it fairly well... Here's you taking control and singing "Rain Rain Go Away"...
And, since it WAS lunch time, we decided everyone should just come inside and eat...
Our weathermen (i.e. Uncle Jay and Mr. Lee) were determined it wasn't going to last too long, so we decided we'd stick it out inside just a little longer and open presents. It actually worked out perfectly because no way were we going to be able to pull you kiddos apart from that water slide to eat lunch and/or open presents!!!!
And open presents you did! You got so many awesome presents from all your friends and family and wanted to play with everyone of them...
But, unfortunately we could not - because guess who decided to show up??? THE SUN!!!! and that old rain finally went away. Let the fun begin would be a wee bit of an understatement based on these pictures....
You and your friends/cousins had so much fun playing and playing and playing and playing! And that's when I knew that the rain was a blessing - like I said earlier, no way were we pulling you guys off those slides to eat lunch! It took all we had to get ya'll to eat cake!!!! Oh, but what a cake it was!!!! How awesome is this...
This was the first year I think you grasped the whole concept of 'singing Happy Birthday' and boy, did you love all that attention!!!!! Well, at first you were a wee bit overwhelmed by all the singing...
But then you got excited!!!!!!
And look at you blowing those candles out!!!!! I was so proud - you are so growing up!!!!
And of course EVERYONE loved the cake, and not just to look at...
After delicious cake, everyone went back into the water and played and played and played some more. It was such a fun party that we just kept going, way past what the invitation said!!! That's how we roll though! We partied all day long and even had to order pizza for everyone for dinner!! Soon enough though, it was time to rest, or relax for some of us, or well, clean up for some of us!! So you and your 2 favorite cousins got a bath while the rest of the crew headed to their home (or cleaned up Mimi's crazy backyard!!)...
What a fun fun fun birthday party day we had! You are so lucky to have such awesome family and friends to come celebrate with you, too!
Here are a few additional highlights from the party...
You as a blonde, or Tangled...
Your favorite toy BY FAR, and given by none other than your BFF... (oh and this is literally 2 minutes after we got in the car to head home the next day! Exhausted much???)
And as soon as we got home your Daddy set up the trampoline you got!! (in the house, no doubt...) You LOVE this as well, but I still think Buzz wins in the end :) 
Yeah, again, AWESOME birthday party baby girl - I mean 3 year old girl!!!! Mommy and Daddy love you so much and you are growing into such a smart, beautiful young lady!!!! Happy Birthday!!!!
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