Birthday Girl! Part 3

1-22-11
Part 3

Portrait time!  This year we set up in Grammie's living room for Dani's birthday session.  And I just have to say...this kid is a blast to photograph!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Birthday Girl! Part 2

1-22-11
Part 2

Next we had dinner at Grammie and PawPaw's house.  Grandma Zonnie and Parker came too!

First Dani got to open presents.


When she gave Parker a hug to say thank you, Grammie had to steal one too!

Then there was a big bag of presents from Mommy & Daddy full of all kinds of stuff.  But what Dani loved best was the new Ariel doll (in case you couldn't tell).

After dinner it was time for cake and ice cream!  But first she had to blow out her candles!

Can you tell she really likes cake?

Then it was time for Dani's annual photo shoot and to tell Parker goodbye.  During their hug they had their typical cousins hug-o-war and both ended up on the floor :)

 

Birthday Girl! Part 1

1-22-11
Mommy took a lot of pictures on Dani's 3rd birthday, so many they need more than one post!  Please forgive me now for all the horrible angle shots, I tried to straighten some, but many were just too crooked to fix.  Guess I thought it looked cool at the time.
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First there was a pancake breakfast at the club house for our subdivision.  It was so cute, all the old people sang Happy Birthday to Dani :)


Next we went to the big park to play and to go to Lizzy's birthday party.  It was VERY windy!

 

 

 

 

It was so windy I didn't manage to get any pictures of Lizzy's birthday candle lit!  If you look closely at the middle picture of Lizzy you'll see she has frosting on her forehead :)

After that we went to Uncle Ray's to visit him and Daddy.  Dani got to pretend drive the tractor!

Then she got to really drive the forklift!

Of course no visit is complete without visiting Tuffy!

 

More tumble time

1-21-11

Dani had another chance to go to tumbling at the YMCA and Grammie came too!

First there was time to run and play with the other kids.


Then Dani got to show off her basket ball skills. 

As always there was log rolling and somersaults. 

Arm crawling under a bridge


Parachute play! 

 

Stretching, stickers and more showing off.

 

Family pictures

1-9-2011

PawPaw wanted a few pictures to send to Grandma Cleta and here's a sample of what we got :)

Cuddle and Tumble

1-7-11

Dani decided to cuddle with her Baby Maddie for a few minutes before we got ready to go to tumbling. 

 

Then we went to tumble at the YMCA again.  It just so happened that Dani's friend Anderson was there because his Mommy had the day off too!

 

Then Aunt Kathie showed up and played along!

Dani and Anderson are so cute, I couldn't help but take a bunch of pictures of them :)

Bean Day 2011

John's family has a tradition called "Bean Day".  On New Year's Day everybody gets together to eat and play.  There are lots of different kinds of beans cooked up (thus the name) and every pot has a dime in the bottom, who ever gets the dime will have good luck with money for the year.  I have yet to get the dime, but it's only a matter of time!!!

Dani got another Christmas present from Illinois.  She named her "Big Baby".

Dani and Parker rode their bikes and Mommy took LOTS of pictures with her new macro lens.

 

Then we all went down the road to a kinda wooded area that Parker calls the Bear Cave.

Then it was time for hugs goodbye, and hugs just because.  I love the ones of Tim and Dani because you can totally see how much he loves my girl.

After some of the people left we got to watch Parker give Uncle Tim a haircut.