Happy FOURTH birthday Peanut!

We had an awesome Birthday Party/Mother's Day with 36 people (90% family) last Sunday. It really went perfectly as a controlled chaos and we are STILL eating left over food from the party (yes, I am my Mom's daughter and my Grandma's grand-daughter, you don't EVER want to run out of food, just in case some extras come! I'm kinda proud of this innate feature :)

One of my favorite things was that Elise wanted to let her cousins and brother share in opening her presents - we were very proud parents - that could have very easily gone the other way. HOWEVER, it showed our little girl's sweetness and thoughtfulness :)

Peanut, we can't believe you are FOUR!!! Time has flown by :) We are proud to be your Mom and Dad and Patrick :)

To explain this pic...3 days before her party, my Dad - B-Bob - asked what color Elise's dress for her party was. When she said Purple, I saw my Dad's eyes glow. He's had this purple wig for many many years (way before me!); he came down the morning of our wedding when I was getting my hair done in this wig. So when Elise saw him coming, she squealed "My B-Bob, he has purple hair (which she truly thought was REAL) just like my dress. Oh Gosh!" TOO CUTE!



Her scooter from G'ma and B-Bob. What I didn't get a pic of was her roller skates from G'ma G'ma (who we found out was a "semi pro" roller skater in her day!)



Here's the house that we gave (and Greg put up) to the kids for their birthday (the beauty of little kids - Patrick will never know in August!). They have spent HOURS in there, it's really cute!!!



4th birthday princess cakes



And of course the "Princess MOM" cakes - it was Mother's Day of course. Each set of kids had to have their Mom's cake for the celebration!