Happy Easter and Happy Birthday Natalie

Mommy and daddy remembered to have Gus sleep in their room this year so that he wouldn't scare the Easter bunny away like he did last year.  So when I woke up in the morning (I waited for the stoplight in my room to turn green), I walked out of my room and saw a few Easter eggs.  When I picked them up, they jingled.  I opened one and there was "noisy money" inside.  Each egg had a different amount and combination of "noisy money" inside.

I began to look all over for eggs.  But first, I went out to the family room to grab something to help me carry all the eggs.

Poor Katie was still sleeping so I had a good head start on her.  I think she heard all the commotion and all the "noisy money" and came out to discover my basket full of eggs.  She helped me find the hard ones and the ones up higher than I could reach.  That Easter bunny sure can hide eggs up HIGH in our house. 

Grandpa Larry and Grandma Judy came over for a lazy Easter Morning breakfast.

After breakfast, Auntie and Katie worked on making my birthday cake.

Poor lazy Gus was humiliated because he had to wear the Easter bunny ears...

 

Then we got to go SWIMMING in our pool!!!  This was the first swimming day of the season.  My crazy Auntie was brave enough to take Katie and I in the pool and play with us.  The water was pretty chilly but I didn't care at all.  I had a BLAST!

And then, after all that fun in one day, we got to have BIRTHDAY CAKE!!!

Natalie's 3rd Birthday party

Mommy and daddy got smart this year and held my birthday party at the "big big" park, which is really the City of Chandler park near our house.  After we went to my friend Griffin's party at the same park, mommy decided it was the way to go (they offer fantastic birthday packages for kids -- complete with pizza and bounce house -- and take care of all the setup and cleanup).

So I invited all my friends from school and lots of my friends from the neighborhood and friends I know through mommy and daddy's friends.  It was a great turnout and I think everyone had a lot of fun.  My Auntie Adrienne even came to the party!!!

Special thanks to Griffin's daddy for braving the bounce house and helping
all the kids dunk on the basketball hoop inside.

 

 

 

After the party I came home and took a really BIG girl nap.  When I woke up, mommy said I could open all the presents that my friends brought to the party for me.

 As I opened my presents, I hung any clothes I got up on the nails we ususally hang our Christmas stockings from.  In the photo below: pretty new birthday dress from my Grandpa Husker, jammies from the De Marrs and day of the week panties from my Auntie Adrienne.

 After all the presents were opened, we had dinner and played outside.  I wanted to eat my dinner in the garage while daddy worked on fixing the window in his big white truck.

It was a great birthday party!!!