Elyse's THIRD Birthday

When I asked Elyse what kind of birthday party she wanted this year, of course she had many ideas. We finally narrowed it down to what I call a "farm" theme, but Elyse says it's an "Old-MacDonald-Had-A-Farm-E-I-E-I-O" theme. Yes, you have to say the whole thing! She officially turned 3 today (March 10th) but yesterday we celebrated with food, friends, family, and cake. (AND sled rides behind the 3-wheeler! Who'da thunk it?) Enjoy the pics...

The kids got to eat off the fancy china :-)

All the girls - Emma, Elyse Maddie, Brandy and Maria - stuffed into the giraffe tent!

Making their own farm animal balloons...

All girls...all the time!

And presents galore...

Brandy helping Elyse with her presents...

Maria helping Elyse with her presents...

Elyse trying to peel the stickers off the balloon she made :-)

Mom & Dad got her a bike!!

The beautiful (and YUMMY!) cake from Thrushes.....Mmmmmmmmm....

1...
2...
3...BLOW!
Let them eat cake!
The highlight of the party was getting to play out in the snow with Elyse's Daddy - what fun! The last girls came in after about 2 hours of riding!

Elyse, Maria & Maddie...
Emma, Maria & Brandy...
Girls just wanna have fun!! (With JJ!)

Maddie, Emma & Elyse (it's her party, she'll squish her friends if she wants to)....

More squishing :-)
Maria w/Uncle JJ...
And the squishing continues...
Brandy & Elyse
And Maddie has no one to squish, but Emma is squishing her sister's legs pretty good...
Maddie, Emma & Maria - laughing it up...
REALLY laughing it up!...
Chiefy had to get in on the action, chasing the sled & stealing mittens...
No boys allowed! Except for Jack, who came later :-)
FUN WAS HAD BY ALL! THANK YOU FOR COMING & SHARING THIS SPECIAL DAY WITH ELYSE!!