Monday, March 21, 2011

Mia's Birthday! We started the day at Build a Bear
(wish I was the guy that invented this) She was
very excited, I was picturing a girl bear, nope a boy
owl??

Trying to decide...

She found him..

looking at all the clothes

Giving the little heart a kiss to put in her owl

Taking it very serious

She named him "Bine"

dad helping dress Bine

She definitely enjoyed Build a Bear, we ended with 2 outfits
and some glasses and a cute little owl :)

I got her birthday party all set up while she was taking a nap

She came out and immediately went inside the castle
Rick built her. She loved it!

She immediately got out her dress up stuff and said she
needed to look like a princess for her Tangled party

sitting inside her castle

I decided to make Mia a Rapunzel Tower cake for her
Tangled theme. It was a super fun cake to make.The look
on her face was  priceless when I brought it out. I even
used chocolate rocks for the bottom. It was fun!

I placed Rapunzel on the top

All the Tangled characters on the bottom and then I colored
coconut to make the grass.

Grandpa B in the castle. She told him he was her first guest

We did a barbecue even though it was 100 mph wind outside,
her favorite meal is a hamburger

Aunt Brooke even came from Utah because she needed
some family time...Mia was really excited to see her and play!

This is the look on her face when she saw the Rapunzel
cake I made. It was priceless.

She just kept staring at it, so cute!

She wouldn't stop staring at it and she won't even
let me touch it now that her party is over, it is still
sitting on the table with everything decorated.

As soon as she saw the flip flops she said, Great mom
these are for the beach!

At one point, Mia stood up and said, " Hey guys,
This is the best birthday party ever!" We even got it
on video, my dad said it sounded rehearsed it was so cute!

She was so funny about opening her presents, because
she didn't get tired of it, she was enjoying every second.

blowing

opening

She told Grandma and Grandpa M about wanting a chair
like dad's in his office, so they found her one !

She set it right next to his

They also got her hoolahoops, so Brooke and I tried
(don't mind me sticking my belly out, yuck)

Of course we had to get a nothing bundt cake to do the
actual candles. She was grinning ear to ear when we sang
to her.


Eating yummy cake

Here's her load!



oops need to get the chair in there


Mia on her new scooter having a blast


Inside her castle with all her new stuff

phew it sure is tiring having a big birthday party but it
was a great success!

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Quote of the day sitting in church: Grandma, I'm just growing up aren't I?
Do you think I'm always going to be this short??

Saturday, March 12, 2011

forgot one..
Mia's 3 year old pics, I can't believe she's
almost 3. She was hilarious today.After a few
poses,sheasked thelady, "So now what do you
want me to do?" She was cracking us up!
Then we went to the park and took our new camera. Do
you see the perfect curl coming down? Why didn't I let
it look like that in all her pictures? I hate when you wish you
would have done things differently, oh well. Anyway, we
love our new camera...

Sunday, March 6, 2011

It was 70 degrees on Saturday so we headed to Redrock
to have a picnic on the rocks and hike. My dad used to take
us here a lot when we were little, so it brings back lots of fun memories.

Mia was especially enjoying nature dancing with her eyes
closed. It was cute.



We heard some croaking from down below us while we
were eating lunch so we went to look and found some frogs
in a pond.

A very small pond :)

Mia wanted to throw rocks in the pond

At one point, she almost went in. Look at my reaction!

Dad and Mia sitting on a rock

Mia wanted to surprise her sitter Morgan because it
was her birthday, so she made the cake all by herself
and even decorated it. Then when Morgan came inside,
Mia started singing Happy Birthday and had cards
and a gift card for a pedicure waiting for her. It
 was really cute!

Morgan ( she calls her Mo) and Mia - she LOVES her!