Three?!

i cannot believe that my little girl is three already!  where does the time go?  seems like only yesterday i was holding that new little baby in my arms, totally unassuming of the greatest adventure she was going to take me on.

 it's so crazy to look back and see how much she has grown in three years!  what a fun, energetic, sassy, smart, happy, helpful little girl she is becoming.

one of the best gifts was having my cousin sydney in town for mae's birthday!  she was here last year, and she surprised me and got a ticket to be here for mae's birthday this year.  it was so much fun!
she and my aunt mary got mae this super cute vanity for her birthday.  she was so hilarious opening the box!  so fun.

 i decided not to have a party with her friends this year.  i'm just not ready for that yet.  next year...definitely.  since we weren't having a party i still wanted to make it a special day, so we put up tons of streamers the night before.  she was so excited when she came downstairs that morning.

 she was very adamant that she wanted a cupcake dress for her birthday.  i was happy to grant that request.  and lucky for me sydney was here to help me with it! 

 i don't even want to know how much frosting mae consumed while syd and i were frosting the cupcakes.

 mae picked out the sprinkles that she wanted on her cake, which of course were bright pink and silver.  she also picked the color she wanted to frosting to be. 

she almost blew out the candles before we started to sing to her.  

 she is such a loved little girl.  we got lots of packages and cards from lots of special people.  and we were able to facetime with both my parents and cody's parents when she opened their gifts, technoloy is amazing.  she is so lucky! 
the big present from us was a comforter.  girlfriend was sleeping with a teeny tiny little blanket, poor thing.  finally got an upgrade. (isn't that pillow adorable?  my little cousin made one for mae and izzy, they are so cute!)

 she got a scooter from gram and gramps.  she's actually getting really good at it, i'm pretty impressed.  she doesn't understand how to do the brake yet, so we've had a couple spills.  but she loves this thing.

 she got some money on her birthday as well and was so excited to spend it!  we went downtown while sydney was here and made a stop at the big top candy shop (one of our favorite places).  and mae was so pumped to pick out lots of taffy.  she also had to be the one to give the cashier her monies. so fun.

we've been blessed with such a great kid.  she has her moments, but for the most part this is one amazing little girl.