Lily Turns 3!!

We have had a lot of fun this month for Lily's Birthday celebrations.  We did the Princess Festival, did 4th of July fireworks, etc went to our first movie and then celebrated with cake and ice cream with the family. Lily had a great day being treated like the Princess Lily Randall that she has proclaimed to be.

Relaxing and watching some TV while she gets ready to receive guests.

Lily loves her sand and water table.

A true princess never takes off her jewelry.

Here are some of the other 4th of July Festivities

First Day of Preschool

Today was our first day of preschool.  After much pain and suffering, lost sleep and second guessing we finally decided on a preschool for Lily.  Oh man parenting is hard sometimes!  Lily was very excited to go this morning.  We talked about how she would meet new friends, and learn new things and that she should listen to her teacher.

We also told them that she was a very caring, loving, energetic and fun little girl who loves to dance and sing, and is great and memorization.  We also slipped in that she can be a "little" stubborn and get frustrated when things don't work right away.

When we dropped her off she really didn't even look back, she just jumped right in.  I have a feeling that her not looking back is going to be a theme throughout her life--this little girl is going to be able to tackle anything!

We love you Lily--

Princess Festival

This year instead of doing a party for Lily's Birthday we decided to try the Princess Festival.  It was 100 degrees that day, but luckily I bought tickets for the morning session.

Here is a link to the video on YouTube on the car ride to the Festival.

We have more pictures on the other camera that we will have to get off someday and post too.

Lily finds a treasure chest

The evil queen was bullying--the little princesses wore a disguise to sneak up on her.

Listening to the story and solving princess problems--like what should we do with toys we don't play with anymore...donate them to other kids of course!

Prince Charming and Cinderella

Lily meets Cinderella

We ended the day with a snow cone that Lily earned from completing some quests with the Princesses.

As we were leaving Lily wanted to get in the water.  It was so hot that we thought why not.  On the other camera we have a picture of her swimming with Ariel.  Next to meeting Cinderella and Belle this might have been her best memory.

Here are a few more pictures from the other camera:

Easter Dresses

Here we are in our Easter Dresses.  I actually purchased mine a couple of years ago for a friends wedding. I picked up Lily's for someones wedding who was planning on having raspberry and tangerine for their colors.  Not naming names here, but they ended up eloping so we decided to use the dress for Easter.  I was getting ready and Nate asked if I was going to wear my matching dress.  I thought that was cute of him to think about it so I went for it.  I mean how many more Easter's will there be when she will think it is fun to match with mom. Nate wore his orange tie so we looked very matching at church.  I wish we would have thought about getting a photo with him and Lily too, but we were rushing to get to church.

She put her Easter hat on by herself--I love how it is way back on her head!

President's Day Ouchie

Since Nate and I were off work we thought it would be fun to take Lily to a trampoline park and jump. She had been with Malorie several times and had a lot of fun so we went for it.  We were there about 45 minutes and close to leaving.  I had been jumping with Lily and needed a break so I tagged out.  Lily and Nate were jumping and somehow Lil hurt her ankle.  I saw her sitting and crying and usually this is brief, but when I saw the look on Nate's face and they were still not moving after a few minutes I headed out.  Once we got off the trampolines and had her try to walk on it she screamed and couldn't put any weight on it.  We were getting ready to go and she just kept pointing at other activities she had not been able to get to yet.

So we let her ride the elephant and then we left.  We ended up going into the doctor and of course she screamed the entire time because of her Dr anxiety.  Since Nate and I were scheduled to leave the next day for a 2 day work meeting he wanted us to take her over for X-rays.

Lily got right up on the table and laid down, but the technician took so long that she started getting nervous and just wanted to get down.  I ended up sitting on the X-ray table with her and Nate held her foot in place by force so we could get the X-ray done.  Luckily nothing was broken.  Just a bad sprain.  She wore a wrap for about a week and had to miss her weekly classes, but she felt better the next week.

It is no fun when little ones get hurt this young and there is not much you can do for them to make them feel better.

After a long day between the Dr visit, the X-rays, and back to the doctor to learn how to wrap her ankle--we were all ready for bed.

The make-up mess

Lily likes to come in my bathroom while I am getting ready.  I put some brushes and make-up in the bottom drawer that she was allowed to play with. Up to this point there hasn't been any mess.  I finished getting ready and this is what I found.  Good thing it was on Dad's side of the bed.