It's a birthday!

Ariel's 3rd birthday was yesterday! We had a family party and took our celebration to the tubing hills of White Tail. I have video on that I'll put up as a seperate post as i haven't put the videos on my computer yet. So here's pictures from while we were home...


It's the birthday girl!!!


And here's the birthday girl's pretty cake! We got her a vanilla buttercream frosting cake from Whole Foods. It say's "Happy Birthday Ariel" on it.


Ariel looking thrilled at her cake. And she was! We ate it with strawberry ice cream.


The obligatory shot of Chaos in a birthday hat. He looks less downtrodden than he did last year when I put a bday hat on him.


Ariel's gift from her FL grandma. Neigh stamps! she was excited and we played with them before we left for the slopes.


Close your eyes, Ariel!



Open them! A trike sized just for her from mommy and daddy. Ariel is always trying to ride her sister's bike, or the bigger trike we have. This one fits her perfectly. She was quite excited but a bit bummed that right now it's like 15 degrees out and a bit too cold to take it outside. What happened to the 70 degree weather from last week? Ah well.

After opening presents we took a hour or so to play with all the new things. Then we went out to White Tail to go tubing. Given the choice of port Discovery or sledding, Ariel chose sledding. We had a blast and I have videos to put up. After we got back from sledding it was probably around 8:30pm. Ariel had fallen asleep in the car but woke up long enough to open her present from her other grandma. This one arrived while we were gone. Ariel knew it was coming and talked about her package from grandma like all day long! So she woke up long enough to open it!


She looks a little out of it in the picture.. and she is! She's very sleepy. She was thrilled though and took her new little Pucci maltese to bed with her, along with the food and bone he came with.

So we had a wonderful day!!!