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Alice Turns Three!

Way back in April it was Alice's turn to have a birthday. She is adorable. She of course wanted a butterfly birthday and the hunt for butterfly things began! Luckily Target had butterfly party stuff (score!) and ROSS had a few butterfly random things that little girls would like. So it was fairly successful. For her party I found in Women's Day a butterfly cupcake recipe from Bakerella. I figured I could certainly get those done, apparently I learned nothing from Daniel's birthday. Now we didn't want to go through the whole shabang of party but we realized that Alice has never had a true birthday party so we invited some friends and cousins over and she had a "real birthday" according to Daniel.

When the kids arrived at her unofficial party, the cupcakes were made, not frosted and the wings for the butterflies were being assembled. It was a step above the needing my sisters to frost things like at Daniel's party so I call it a success! While the kids played I finished up the cupcakes. They did not look as cool as the ones in the magazine but Alice knew they were butterflies and was so excited about them. She loved opening presents and had so much fun with "her friends." I can't believe my littler girl is three! And yes those are butterflies on her dress as well.




Here are three things I love about Alice:
1. When this girl is happy, it is magical. She lights up the whole room with her big eyes and happy smile and ridiculously cute laugh.
2. She loves her brothers. She calls Daniel "her Daniel man" It is wonderful.
3. I love that she loves to help me, she cooks and cleans and weeds and plants and takes care of her baby, all in stride with mom.

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Natalie Ockey said…
Sorry we missed this party. The butterfly cupcakes turned out very cute! Nice job.
9:15 PM
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