sweet Buggy is 3

Back at the end of April I got some pretty good shots one day of Syd and Belle in their Bee clothes.  Then thought... I should do a "bee" theme for Sydney's birthday and I can use one of these pics for the invite.   I would have done my usual shutterfly-type invite, but decided to pinch pennies a bit more this year and made my own (on work time, of course).    I think they came out cute enough.



a pic of the invite.   Layered with black/white heavy cardstock, Yellow lighter cardstock, and a pic.  Held together with white and yellow sheer ribbons



info page

Buggy in her birthday attire (size 2T and still roomy)



Annabelle in her hand-me-down bee dress




sigh, the cake.   I had grand plans for a cake with super fancy fondant and decorations.   Plan failed when on my day off the previous day, the power went out for over 3 hours.    I went into "let me finally unpack some of these boxes since we've lived here for 4 months"mode and decided I could do the cake and all side munchies the next morning before a 10am party.  HA!    Ended up slapping some regular buttercream frosting (with yellow food coloring) on that puppy and adding some sugar bees.




the spread.   Cake, veggie tray, ranch dip, black bean/corn salad, 5 layer dip, and some hot dogs on the grill,   Also had a big bowl of strawberries, cherries, and pineapple.   I think the food turned out well, but being relatively budget friendly




Nana and her grand-babies



Syd was pretty much the only child to get in the pool.  She loves the pool!

action shot

whoops!  stuck!



Annabelle chilled in the shade of a tree (with her leg up for some strange reason)




my little bathing cutie





Lighting the candles.   At first Sydney put her fingers in her ears... she thought they were going to go "bang" like fireworks.




Syd eats cake



Poor Annabelle.  I am super ghetto and gave her the cake top remnants that I had cut off to make the cake flatter before frosting.  LOL.   She like it pretty well.   She doesn't need the added sugar in the frosting



I love this view with the hot pink bougainvillea

A few pics of just some of the presents:


Princess Look-and-Find book from twins Lily and Sophia.   A serious hit



cute little dolly from Miss Laurie

CANDY LAND!!   no further explanation needed here.   Thanks Auntie Dawn and uncle Doodle!

Now she has a mixer for her house!



New dress and hat to go cherry picking in.  Thanks Nana!



Merida doll from Alan, Cindy, and Ashley.   Merida has already been to church with us.  I think she'll be joining us a lot of places in the near future.

Alan, Cindy, and Ashley also brought a little gift for Annabelle too.   You know, since she was deprived of a 1st bday by her mean old parents.

 After the party cleared out... last people left around 3pm.... and we had clean up underway, the girls were so beyond hyped up.   My goodness, the spazzing and screaming and shrieking.    I finally had to find a moment alone upstairs and leave daddy with the screaming 2 of them around 6pm.     Soon after, it got eerily quiet downstairs.    Here is what I came down to around 6:30pm

They were OUT!   I carried Syd up to bed around 8pm and just got her into a pull-up and let her stay in her shorts and tee shirt.   Merida slept with Sydney all night long.