Rhyans 3rd Birthday PARTY!!

We decided to do a small, family only (plus Taylor and Shelby of course... b/c bff's ARE family!) get together for Rhyan the day after her birthday (Sunday). We had it at 4pm so that sleeping beauty (who LOVES her naps) could get a good nap in and be well rested for the party! Mack was pretty happy about the whole thing, too!

Before everyone arrived...

I let Rhyan pick her cake and, shocker, she chose THOMAS!

Rhyan seemed a little taken aback by all of us singing "happy birthday" to her!

Rhyan blew out her own candle all by herself!

 Well, Mack was happy until Shlaine made him MAD! ;-)

 Taylor and Shelby have been rhyan's best friends since she was born :-) Her birthday just wouldnt seem like her birthday without her besties by her side! Look at how happy she is with them!

The girls were CLEARLY enjoying their cake and icecream!

Rhyan was NOT shy about being ready to open her presents! She got lots of GREAT stuff and loved all of her gifts! This puzzle book was from Lindy and her family

And this little friend, shirt and skirt were from the Nash girls! Side note: rhyan wore this outfit to church on sunday and got TONS of compliments on it. Her daddy, on the other hand, said the skirt made her look like she had a "budunkadunk" and he didnt like that part! HA! Such a protective daddy!

THIS was the look she gave when she got her gift from her "Mayer"... an EDWARD TRAIN! This was literally the ONLY thing she asked us for. Well, that and a "tea party" but we had no clue what she meant and just hoped she forgot it :-)

The gift her daddy and I gave her. She looooves it!

The kiddo's, minus mack. We tried to get him in it, as you can see. FAIL. lol

We also gave her "James"

Rhyan and her Mayer. We were soooo grateful to have her here!

Shelby kept saying "i hold mack!". Who would have thought that THIS was the way to get him in the pic?!

Rhyan, Liz, Jason and Baby Avery (in Liz's tummy! expected arrival July 15!)

Rhyan and her Grammy

Her "second" family :-) Kevin, Tracy, Lydia and not pictured Elijah (at church!)

The most favorite thing that she got all day ended up being her Thomas the Train pillow pet from Tracy and her family and Bobby and Marsha (tracy's parents). It has replaced her monkey *gasp* and she now takes it anywhere we'll let her. The upside: it doesnt have a tail! ha! (when she has her monkey she sucks her fingers outside of her bed b/c she holds the monkey by the tail and sucks her fingers). The downside: the thing is pretty BIG! haha! But she looooves it! So thats what counts.

And her other gifts that i somehow didnt get pics of were "Toy Story" (her first movie!) from Grammy, a giftcard to go shopping at Target from Jason and Liz, the Thomas chair you see her sitting in from Shlaine and Steve, a set of 4 thomas puzzles from Aunt Gaye and the big playground from Jeff and I and her Gran and Grandad (um, its for BOTH kids but had to come around her bday).

We had a WONDERFUL time celebrating our "baby girl" who is not such a baby after all!