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: