Three Years Old

Warning!  Long post to follow with a lot of pictures.  We celebrated Nina's third birthday several different days and we did a lot of fun things for her. 
Three years has flown by for me.  Nina has such a fun and feisty little personality.  She does some of the sweetest things followed moments later by something absolutely crazy.  I guess that is typical three year old behavior.  Nina loves a wide variety of activities.  She loves playing princess dress-up, riding her tricycle, swinging on her belly at the park like Buzz Lightyear, drawing, coloring, painting, singing, "playing" the piano and dancing.  She is a really good helper and always wants to pick out which diaper Susie will wear, which is usually the one with Baby Big Bird on it.  Every single morning she comes into our room and asks us, "How was your nap?" followed by "My nap was good".  She makes up silly songs.  Today she made up a song about Uncle Kevin peeing in Grandma's grass.  (I think it's made-up anyways).    We are so grateful to have Nina as our daughter and love the light that she brings into each of our days.

Our big preschool girl

 The Thursday before Nina's birthday we headed down to Disneyland with Grandpa Larry and Grandma Beth.  Disneyland is always such an amazing and magical place to go to around the holidays.

 One of Nina's favorite rides is Dumbo.

 Had to end the evening with a tasty Mickey Mouse cake pop.

 Nina got a wagon from Grandpa and Grandma and love strolling around the neighborhood.  Susie especially enjoys it.

 The day before Nina's birthday we had a family celebration.  It is so great having Brandon and Lindsey so much closer.  We love being able to see them more often.

 We are also so lucky to have Kevin and Jennalyn closer too. Our kids are definitely spoiled!

 On Nina's actual birthday we went to the local zoo with Nina's best friend Sadie.

 The girls loved the Bobcats and named them Simba and Pumbaa.  Very creative, right?

 This little girl was happy to tag along with everything we did.

 Nina also had a little princess party with all of her cute little friends.  It was so fun to have them all over in their darling little outfits.

A group shot of all the sweet little princesses.