Happy Party Day

Today was MG's party! I struggled with whether or not to invite some of her little friends, but ultimately decided to make it only family. I'm glad I did. She had a great time with all of her cousins and it was nice to visit with family. The theme was, of course, Disney Princesses. She went back and forth a lot and finally decided she wanted all of them at her party!

We had her party at the church again. You just can't beat it. There's plenty of room for the kids to run. They can play basketball and there are 2 blow up bounce houses. It was perfect. The cousins played their little hearts out in the jumpers. We opened presents next. MG is so spirited and full of personality, but she does NOT like the spotlight unless we're at home! She hated everyone sitting around and watching just her! It was all I could do to get her to open her gifts! She got some fun stuff, though.

We went with a cupcake cake this year. It was so simple and cute, I will never do a cake again! MG ate her weight in icing!

MG had one request that she was adamant about...she had to have a "pin-yaya"! All I could find was a pull-string one, but she insisted on hitting it, so we did! I think it's safe to say that was her favorite part! The funniest part was when all the other kids were scooping candy up as fast as they could, she was so delicately choosing one piece at a time and picking it up!

Luckily we moved things along pretty quickly. My plan was to have plenty of time at the end for the kids to just play. But MG got sick! She started her new antibiotic last night (that's a totally different post!) and it's really strong. It makes her sick everytime and this is the strongest dosage she's ever been on. I debated not starting it until after the party, but really wanted to go ahead and get it in her system. Anyway, she started bawling and yelling that her head hurt. She was pitiful and it didn't help that she hadn't had a nap. So we rushed to clean up and get her home.

We are so blessed to have such great family. They all made her day so special.

Her Grandma, Auntie, Amber (Mamer), Aunt Pat, Uncle Big, Matt and Leigha came all the way from MO!

Her Mamaw, Papaw, Uncle Kenny, Aunt Manda, Eli and Maddie came from 2 hours away.

And of course her Granny, Pap, Mamie, Jon-Jon, Josh, Caleb and Ms. Melanie were there, too.

I still can't believe my girl is 3 years old! Time really flies by.