Photo Shoot!

We took a bunch of 3 year old pictures and these are some of our favorites! It was hard to not put all of them on the blog!

Brooklyn's 3rd Birthday!

Brooklyn turned 3 on September 4th!

She was SOOO excited for her birthday this year!! Every day she would say "Oh is that for my party?" "Is that for my birthday?" She could not wait to finally be 3!

Sunday morning before church she woke up and saw the balloons and birthday banner. She was so happy.

We let her open a few presents before church

She was so excited!

Grandma Baxter made her this fun princess cape. She loves to dress up!

Her breakfast request was pink pancakes with chocolate chips

After church she got to open one more present before lunch. Brooklyn LOVES Disney Yahtzee!

After a nap and dinner it was time for more presents!

Aunt Courtney got to be here to celebrate with us

We just so happened to have the missionaries, Elder Sauni and Elder Lucas, over for dinner, and they stayed to celebrate as well

More presents!

Since Monday was Labor Day and her friends didn't have school we had her Tangled Party! She talked for months about having a Tangled doll cake, and she loved it!

Pascal cupcakes and Rapunzel

The decorations

One of our games: Pin the frying pan on Flynn Rider

Brooklyn and a few of her friends eating lunch. Gotta love all those cute blondies!

Then it was time for the games! The kids LOVED this game. Brooklyn's the only one that tried to cheat and peak under the blindfold.

and of course Duck-Duck-Goose!

After the games we sang Happy Birthday and had cupcakes and icecream

Then it was time for presents. All the kids always love this part!

Brooklyn and her friends! Poor little Kennett on the left was so stinking shy, but I love her little pouty face while everyone else is smiling!

Family pic!

Mom and the birthday girl

and my two cheezers!

Even after her birthday was over, she kept getting cards and gifts in the mail. She thought it was awesome!

Brooklyn definitely got spoiled by all of her grandparents and friends! She had a great birthday and has still been talking about it days later!

The last few weeks

I have been really bad at blogging lately, so here are a bunch of pictures of what we have been up to the last few weeks!

Brooklyn loves to help cook!

and she LOVES her new robe that I got at a consignment sale for $3.

She is really into taking pictures and saying CHEEEESEY WEEEESEY!

She thinks she has figured out how to take off her pj's...she usually gets her shirt this far then walks around saying she is Santa Claus

While Courtney was here visiting, she watched Brooklyn so we could go on a date! We went to the beach, had dessert and played cards

Before Greg started up school again, we made a trip to the zoo

I LOVE this picture!

Brooklyn was pretty excited to see the black jaguar so close!

and she's obsessed with all the money in this fountain

Can you see that tiny little scratch on the bumper? Well that little scratch kept us in the zoo parking lot for over 2 hours and called upon the services of THREE different police cars! Needless to say we left with the apologies of the officers and one mad crazy lady still sitting there yelling at the cops for not writing a damage report.

Since I have been pregnant, Brooklyn thinks she needs to show her baby bump in the majority of her pictures

Greg on his LAST first day of school EVER!!!

For a couple of weeks this is what we would wake up to..I guess she didn't want to leave anybody out

Before the end of the season we made out to a Jacksonville Suns game!

We even saw Elvis!

Brooklyn's highlight was seeing the mascot

Our traditional family picture after the game

I have been waiting for the moment when I could take a picture and think "I can't wait to show this to your boyfriend!" Well this is the picture that will be waiting for the lucky guy!

Meanwhile we have done lots of swimming! Since this picture she doesn't need the floaty suit anymore! She just jumps in and can swim!

Feeling pretty'n'pink. She picked out this outfit, including the shoes that are a size too small. She wore them all day. I guess pain really is beauty to her.

And we had a girls night! A bunch of us went to Taco Lu's for dinner

and then to the movie The Help. It was a blast, and one of the best moves I had seen in a while!

and that sums up the last few weeks!