Ainsley Hazel turns 4! Part 3

And then there was the party :) This year we decided to go to the Red Butte Children's Garden. This is an amazing little place I'd never been to before. I thought it was beautiful, whimsical and fun. We got a membership and are definitely going back.

It had all these great little places for the kids.
Including a fun maze I wish I'd gotten a picture of.

And they have a great little room where they teach classes and have parties :)

Currently the two things Ainsley is most interested in is plants and painting, so this was the perfect party for her. They started by painting a pot.

Love this picture! ^
(fyi - Half the pictures in this post are taken by my sister in law, the fabulous photographer Anna..
can you tell which?? lol)

This is Ains cute friend Zoe.
(I met her mom at my very first birth class when we were both pregnant.. so they were friends in utero, hehe)

Ainsley has some amazingly dedicated friends. Zack and his family put off leaving for a family vacation so he could come. And this picture is Meira's Grandma and her little sister Reagan. Meira was staying with her grandma while her parents were out of town and she drove her down from Cache Valley to come to the party! Thanks Meira's Grandma!!)

After they finished with the painting they had a scavenger hunt around the garden. They gave them hints about certain creatures and they would run around until they found it.

By the time the scavenger hunt was over the painted pots were dry and each they all got to plant something in their own.

GrandmaBaba got there during the party.
We were thrilled she was able to visit that weekend.
Nora was extra thrilled because Grandma always wears great necklaces to play with.

Grandpa Thom even stopped by!
He happened to be in town for a law thing and so he came up to see us before driving home.

After planting it was food time!
and you can't forget the gorgeous flower cupcakes!
Thanks to the One Sweet Slice Shoppe
My cute birthday girl was so excited to blow out her candle..
and even more to eat her pink cupcake.
Nora enjoyed this part as well.

And of course we can't forget presents!
Zoe gave her some cute unicorn stickers and a unicorn necklace
Ains really loved the necklace.
This is them hugging while she is still looking at it.

And here she is with more stickers and paints from Meira.
(Some of her other presents included a purple light saber and an M&M dispenser.)

We had a great group of kids to help celebrate our little girls special day.

up top we have Zack, Meira, Ains Brooklyn and Zoe

and underneath her two great cousins Adam and Jake

The girls got silly

I'm so glad Ainsley has such amazing friends

Ainsley Hazel turns 4! Part 2

so.. after the mani/pedi we went back to our house and Ainsley went swimming in our little plastic kiddie pool and enjoyed some popcicles

in fact, Nora had her very first!and I let her make an enormous mess with the empty boxes and peanuts from Tom's new servers

When Tom got home from work she got to open her presents

(yeah... they are 'wrapped' in the amazon boxes they came in.. deal with it)

Ains was SO excited to get her monkey clock. She's been asking for it for months. She's been having a problem getting up too early and promising every morning that she'd sleep later if she had a monkey clock because she doesn't know what time it is. This amazing clock has a setting that lets you pick what time it's eyes open and close. So I close the eyes at bedtime and she's not allowed to get out of bed until his eyes open. Ains and I both LOVE this clock.

And then of course she got some art supplies

But the big winner of the evening was her bike!

can't believe she's already riding a big girl bike!

then we let her pick the restaurant for dinner and bring a friend. She wanted Olive Garden. One of Tom's favorite restaurants.. he's got her trained.

nothing makes Ainsley happier than noodles :)

Nora decided to show us exactly how loud she can be at a restaurant. Good times.

So, all in all, I think it was a pretty good day :) Hope she enjoyed herself. It was a Tuesday so we had her friends party a couple days later on Friday. Stay tuned for Part 3 :)

Ainsley Hazel turns 4! Part 1

In the morning we went out for breakfast with her buddy Zack. Of course we were having soo much fun, I forgot to take any pictures! Ah! He got her a purple light saber. :) He is the reason that she is now saying she wants to be princess Leia for Halloween.

Then for a special treat for her birthday I decided to take Ainsley to get her first ever mani/pedi
She was very excited!

there was one moment where they brought out a big file for her toes that she was a little concerned.

She got over it quickly :)

I love this one, her checking out her nails. :)

she was so proud to show me her cute fingersand toes

she sat and watched a show while they finished up my toes

we got matching toes

It was so great to get some big girl time! Love that girl!

Briggs Extravaganza

This memorial day we were lucky enough to have Grandpa and Grandma Briggs and all my siblings come to visit!

Saturday Morning the kids went to the park together.

Gavin cracks me up

Love this picture of Wesley

Grandpa watching the kids

The 'old men' going for a spin :)

my silly family... ya, I come by it honestly ;)

Me and my daddy

Saturday afternoon we went to Jungle Jim's and the kids had a blast.
Nora loved the carousel

Going for a spin with Nora

JaNae and her little man

Ains and Wes

love the silly looks on these girls

Rox and the 'twins'

Grandpa and all his Grandsons

Grandma Briggs and Baby Gaige