Beautiful Girl

So for starters I'm pretty spoiled rotten to be surrounded by a family of amazing photographers. I have the kind of pictures for every little and big event that scrapbookers dream of :) One of these amazing photographers is my sister in law Cat (check out her website here) We did Hallie's newborn pictures with her and now do ones each year around her birthday. So here are some of our favorites from Hallie's 3 year old shoot!

We love our beautiful, happy, sweet, and full of fun little girl!

Happy Birthday Hallie!

I can hardly believe my little baby is 3! She's growing up, somehow I didn't think that would happen... at least not quite so soon:) She is so sweet, incredibly smart, loving, and beautiful. She is my little cutie pie and I love her to pieces!

Hallie is completely into ballet so we had her parties centered around ballet and ballerina's; Hallie was the best ballerina of all, of course!
We gave her the purple tutu she's been talking about for weeks yesterday before her friend party. Of course it was instantly on and has barely been off since :) At the party we colored a ballerina page, played pin the tutu on the ballerina, danced, had a ballet slipper pinata, ring around the rosies (she LOVES ring a round) and of course mini cakes that looked like tutus, and ice cream. The best was that all the little girls wore tutus and had little princess crowns. We added some fairy wings as party favors and the ensemble was complete! Hayden and I stayed up late the night before decorating and making the cakes, so I decided to make my own tutu for the party as well. :) When Hallie found out I had a tutu like hers she was so excited and wanted me to wear it ALL day..lol what could I do right? It helped that I kinda liked being a ballerina with all the girls...


Later that night the Poulson's came over for more of the same and an additional treasure hunt that a ballerina princess hid in our house :) She loved every second! And I must say what great sports everyone was doing ring around the rosies and wearing their princess/king crowns! ;) Tia made an amazing tutu cake with a black leotard that Hallie just loved! When Hayden was cutting it she said, "Daddy why are you cutting my tutu?" She is my little helper with all things pertaining to the kitchen, so naturally we got her a little kitchen set. Several family members added to the fun with homemade aprons, a chef hat, a cake decorating set, and a tea party set! She is in baking heaven! (she of course added the tiara/"crown" herself" ;)

Isn't she an angel!
I relied on Kent for most of the pictures that night, so there will be more to come..;)

Today we woke her up to Happy Birthday and a million hugs and kisses! I think she was surprised it was "still" her birthday. We had to explain that yesterday was like a practice and today was her real birthday..lol It didn't take too much explaining, as soon as she realized there would be more presents she was content. We gave her the kitchen in the morning to give her more time to play with it while we were both home and could sit and enjoy watching her have fun :)

I decided to do lasagna for dinner because it's her favorite so between church and lasagna I attempted a cake as well... It was supposed to be all ruffly and adorable... well it was my first attempt at a "decorative" cake so that's my excuse :) Hallie seemed to like it so I'm satisfied :)
All of my family that's near came and celebrated with us and we had a fabulous night! Here's a bit of the birthday song the video came in half way through with my family's additional ending :)


We ended the night with more playing, hugs, kisses and her birth story. I love telling her all about how loved she has always been and she is the most adorable attentive listener, with little giddy shakes of excitement when she sees how excited we were through the story. I can't say enough what a blessing and what a sweet little girl she is :) We feel so incredibly blessed to have our little Hallie girl and wish there were words that could capture how special and amazing she is and how much we love her. I hope you had an incredible 3rd birthday sweetie pie and we love you!!!!!!!!!

Smitten with Hals

There are just so many cute things that come out of my 2 (almost 3!!!) year olds mouth :) So I thought I'd share a few along with some pics of my beautiful girl!

Me - Do you want to have a grilled cheese sandwich with your dinner tonight?
Hallie - Sure! And daddy can have a boy cheese sandwich?


(Doing a Turbo Jam video together)
Hallie - Mommy their shirts aren't very big.

(Just coming into a restaurant from a rain storm)
Hallie- There sure is a lot of percipictation out there.

(I'm distracted finishing typing on the computer while Hallie keeps telling me she doesn't want to do something then says,..
Mommy, are you listening to my words?

She does this with many of my nicknames for her...
Me- Thanks sweety pie!
Hallie - You're welcome sweety pie mommy!

Yup, she's adorable and I feel so lucky and blessed to say she's mine :) She keeps me on my toes and makes me want to be a better mommy :)