The Girl is 3 TODAY!!!!!

Happy Birthday Miss Sawyer Da Ross!!!! In typical Ross fashion, we've been celebrating since Friday....and....it's Monday:-) Because I'm a stickler for tradition, we started out with making sure that our Birthday Tablecloth had our new set of handprints....(this is my favorite tradition)

Saturday, we went out to Grandma and Grandpa Willey's house for the big party.

She put the candles on the cake....

...and 'practiced' blowing out the candles. Good thing we had the practice session because it took quite a while to get them all out...all 3 of them:-)

Then she got to open one present. She got a new pair of scissors from Grandma. They sort of got 'left' at Grandma's house...

Then we went outside for a waterballoon fight...ahhh...summer birthdays....:-)

We went back inside to open the rest of the presents -- notice the change of clothes...the water balloon fight got a little out of hand. The 'big impact' presents were the camera (notice my new fancy profile picture...yes, taken by my beautiful 3 year-old with her new camera) and the brand new PINK FISHING POLE that she has been asking for for a long, long, looooonnngggg time which incidently, Darrin took the two of them fishing yesterday and she caught 2, yes, 2 fish with that PINK FISHING POLE!!

Then it was time to blow out the candles (for real this time....and she did much, much better)

We cooked s'mores outside...

And of course, it wouldn't be a party without a little meltdown....

We were suppose to smack a pony pinata but we just ran out of time. You'll get to see pictures of that in the Branson post. We're takin' it with us:-)

AND, we finally get to today...her ACTUAL birthday. The kids each have their own special birthday plate that ONLY gets used for special Happy Birthday Smiley Pancakes (made by Daddy) on the morning of the birthday. You can't see it, but under the 'Happy' pancake is a picture of a little girl holding a flower. We had to wake Sawyer up ... still a little sleepy...

Daddy got a little 'creative' this year and decided to use food color on top of the chocolate chips. I guess he thought it would make the face a little more realistic....hmmm... This is Sawyer after the first bite because the happy pancake had 'blue' eyes....

And the last tradition of a Ross kid's birthday? We planted a tree for each child on his/her first birthday. Every year they get their picture taken with their tree. I would have posted tree pics of each year but my children have now destroyed the house because of how long it has taken me to post all of the existing pictures...maybe later...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SWEETIE PIE (papa's nickname for her)

aka HONEY BUNNY (daddy's nickname for her)

We LOVE You!!!!