Our Baby girl is 3!!!

Birthday Breakfast

Helping frost the cake:)

Homemade pizza dinner

Birthday outfit

Surprise

Sharing candy

cupcakes

The Decor

Opening presents

Alissa Livi and Lauren playing puppets

Princess Alissa getting pampered

Playing with balloons with friends

Checking out the burned hair from the candle

 I can’t believe Alissa is 3! She has SOOOOO much personality. I wish I could catch all her facial expressions in pictures. They would make me smile all day. Alissa continues to be very independent. She always wants to do everything herself whether its getting in her carseat, getting buckled, getting dressed, shoes, pour her ketchup and mustard or ranch and even do her hair. Some things I don’t let her do yet (her hair), but she continues to want to do it. She loves people and knows how to be a people pleaser when she wants to. I love that Alissa is talking so much now. She didn’t talk very much for a long time because she didn’t have to. She has Remi and Broden to do everything for her. She loves them and always wants to be with them. It is hard for her when they go play at their friends’ houses and she doesn’t get to go.  She still loves sharing and says the funniest things. She loves to call me silly when I do something. I just went to lock the door and she said, “You lock it? Silly.”

Happy Birthday to you!!!

Something Alissa has always loved doing is singing. She started “singing” during the sacrament meeting hymns when she was just a baby. Now in the car she will say, “Temple please. My pabrite.”(I love to See the Temple is her favorite song) She can recognize the song within the first 3 notes of the intro music. She also loves to sing Uhnbeam( Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam), Head Shoulders( Head Shoulders Knees and Toes), Popcorn,  noman (once there was a snowman) and just about any other song. She also enjoys dancing while she sings. I love watching her when she doesn’t know I’m watching. She puts on the best shows singing and dancing. Or she will line up her toys, animals or dolls and talk to them and play with them. She stops as soon as she knows I’m looking though. She’s too cute!!! We love our LISSA!

For Alissa’s birthday we celebrated on Friday the 16^th. It was kind of low key because none of our stuff is here yet, but still fun. We had the Ingersoll’s over for cupcakes and played pin the crown on the princess or prince. I drew a princess on one glass door and a prince on the other. I forgot wrapping paper, so we used pillowcases (almost a tradition now) and boxes. She got dress up jewelry and a crown,  a puppet theatre, lunchbox, Dora movie, Lion King game, and some silly bands. I also got her a little skirt almost like a tutu. She loves it. It’s a little big and I don’t know what I was thinking when I got the shirts to go with it, but they are size 7/8. So I haven’t taken good pictures with that outfit yet.

After dinner Blake took Alissa for a walk and while they were gone we decorated and got everything ready. Ingersoll’s came over and we hid behind the curtains with all the balloons and surprised her when she came in the door. She didn’t really know what to think.

We were creative with her cupcakes. I don’t love going to the store, so I will figure out a way to do most things with what I have. So I didn’t have food coloring for the frosting, or anything to put the cupcakes on besides red plates(which doesn’t go along with a princess theme). So I thawed blueberries and raspberries and used the juice from them to make the frosting pink and purple. Then I added cream of Tartar to make it thick again. I frosted them using a plastic bag with a hole poked in it. We used the foil cupcake pans, which I actually love. I use them until they are no longer useable, then throw them away. They actually clean up better than my real pan. I put the cupcakes on a pot lid turned upside down and covered with foil. It looked kind of like a platter. We used streamers and balloons for the rest of the decorations. Oh, and for the crowns to pin on the princess and prince we used striped paper. It’s all we had. We made Alissa a crown out of a grape-nuts box covered in foil and Remi got a jewel at school to put on it and made her a friendship bracelet.  Broden helped me all day getting ready for her party. He just kept asking what job can I do now. 

Enjoying cupcakes! Remi, Avery, Broden Drew, Alivia, Alissa and Parker in the window.

Happy 3rd Birthday Alissa!!! We love you!