Happy Birthday Sarah

Last Monday Sarah celebrated her third birthday. It seemed to be more like a week of celebrations, which I am sure she didn't mind. It all started the Saturday before her birthday when Aunt Julie sent Sarah her first birthday package. It contained a fun ballerina outfit (tutu and shoes) , pom poms and a head band that looked like a flower. Sarah decided she wanted to wear all of them at once, so the did. She was very cute and danced to the new mixed CD that Aunt Julie and her family put together for her.

How do I look?

On Monday Sarah celebrated her birthday with cupcakes at her daycare. Then the next day she joined her friend, Nina, who's birthday is the day after Sarah's, at Chuckie Cheese's. The girls had a great time together, except Sarah was very upset when Chuckie Cheese tried to come by and say 'hi' to her. Sarah still isn't a fan of people in costumes.

Sarah upset after Chuckie Cheese came by for a visit....

Sarah and Nina play with a telephone game.

On Friday, Sarah got to go to another birthday celebration at my friend Violet's house. Her son, Frank has the same birthday, so Sarah has celebrated her last three birthdays with Violet's family. After birthday cupcakes, the kids went out 'hunting' for fireflies. It was Sarah's first time searching for fireflies, which brought back memories of when we used to collect them in jars as a kids. It is very nice to have 'adoptive' family when some of our family is farther away. We are always welcome there and Sarah loves playing with G'ma Violet and G'pa Bob.

Sarah and Frank blow out their birthday candles. (They had face painting at daycare that day, so she went to the party as a cat. I found out that one of the other kids at the party also went to Sarah's daycare---the face painting on the two kids helped us make the connection!)

Sarah enjoys her birthday cupcake

Sarah looking for fireflies

Sarah's birthday celebrations finally came to end over the weekend when Uncle Eric came up to visit. He brought Sarah a hip new plate, bowl, cup, and utensil set with the letter "S" in the middle. Sarah loves them and has all her meals on them now. We had a fun visit and enjoyed some great barbecue from Buz and Neds (for you foodnetwork people, Buz was the one that won the barbecue showdown with Bobby Flay) and then followed-up up with Sarah's traditional birthday cake for the last three years---my mom's famous strawberry roll cake. If you haven't had it before, it always gets rave reviews and I am pleased that I get to hand down the tradition and make if for my family. It is sponge cake rolled up with fresh whipped cream and strawberries--a perfect summer treat!

Enjoying barbecue on the back porch