Happy 3rd Birthday Audrey!!

I can't believe my baby girl is 3 years old.   For some reason this birthday has hit me hard.  Three seems so much more grown up than 2 and I definitely don't have a baby anymore.  I asked Audrey if she could stay 2 forever for me.  She said "mommy, after my birthday party, I will go back to being 2 for you."  She was definitely excited for her party.  She opened gifts for her birthday really spread out this year.  She got a trampoline for the back yard and we put that up a couple of weeks prior.  That was her main gift.  We then went to St George with Grandpa and had a little party there and opened some more of her presents.

The day they were surprised with the trampoline

Birthday party in St George for Audrey and Aunt Jen

Grandpa ordered a really yummy cake from a local bakery

Audrey's presents traveled with us, wrapping paper did not.  

Audrey's birthday was on a Friday this year.   We weren't able to take it off of work but we got out early and went out downtown for her birthday celebration. 

First we went to the Planetarium....Audrey and Colin "on the moon"

We went out for sushi at Happy Sumo...using chopsticks

Playing in the water fountains at the Gateway

Birthday Girl!!

The tulips were so pretty 

 Daddy and his princess on her birthday

We were really busy getting ready for her party on Saturday and caught her painting her toes by herself

Uncle Billy gave her this BIG pink dog.  She LOVES it and has slept with it every night since

Her birthday cake that my mom and I made, she had a Madagascar 3 "themed" party

Fruit cups that were cute enough to take a picture of

Her 3 balloon.  There is a national shortage of helium and I could only get one balloon

Blowing out candles!

Time for presents

Colin really wanted this pirate ship.  He was somehow able to convince Audrey that she really wanted it.  This boat is all she talked about for weeks.  She(and Colin) was so excited to play with it.

Opening a present from Eliana

Giving Eliana a "thank you" hug

Time for cake!

We had a Clown themed photo booth.  I think it was a hit!

 Not pin the tail on the donkey but "pin the crown on Ariel" was a lot of fun

Uncle Billy tried to play but he didn't do very good!

What a smile!!!

Snowbird Day

We decided that yesterday would be the perfect day to do a ski day.  It was the day before Daylight Savings and we all needed to be tired to get to bed early.  We got a babysitter and Paul and I went out skiing early.  We skied from 9-12, came home to get the kids and then took them skiing.  

The weather was really crazy.  At times it was sunny. Other times it was SOOO foggy that you couldn't see anything.  

In the tunnel headed to Mineral basin

Skiing Mineral Basin with the kids.  The conditions were a little rough to have them back there.

Hidden Peak!

Waiting for the Tram to take us back down

On the Tram!

It worked, we were all exhausted at the end of the day.  We set the clocks ahead as soon as we got home and the kids went down early and fell asleep quick.  

A fall and other randomness

(almost all cell pics again)

Audrey fell off the barstool and really bonked her nose.  I thought it might have been broken and even took her to the dr to make sure it looked okay.

(right after)

(the next day)

(A few days later) She looked pretty beat up for awhile

The Randomness

Dance Party! 

Daddy's Tie

Making Brownies

Super Hero Day at school

 Her hair is growing

Jumping off the bed!

Static!!

 LOVE!

Cousins Visit!

We all had so much fun when the cousins came out to visit!  This post brought to you entirely by cell phone pictures. Sometimes you wouldn't know we got new cameras for Christmas last year. 

Sledding!!!

                     
                           

City Creek Center

Skiing in Park City

 Hanging out in the lodge in Park City

Just hanging out

The Aquarium

Audrey's big girl bed

A little while ago Audrey started insisting that she have a big bed like Colin's.  We had already converted her crib to the toddler bed but she wanted a "big bed"!  In January, we decided to go ahead and switch her bed.  However, we made a deal with her.  We told her that big girls sleep in big beds and big girls don't have bottles.  She was still sleeping with a bottle of water at night.  She had to throw away her bottle if she was going to get her big bed.  She had a hard time with this decision and went back and forth for a whole afternoon(haha).  Finally she picked up her bottle and threw it in the garbage and said she wanted a big bed.  She never looked back for the bottle.  It took me a few days to throw away the rest because I was scared but she was fine with it and never wavered.

The first few nights she slept with the mattress on the floor like this.  

When the weekend got here, Paul built the bed....with a little help

Her first night in her new big girl bed

This is how she insists on sleeping every night now.  The pillows all need to be stacked up just like this.  She's almost sitting up she's so high on pillows