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Mckenzie's 3rd Birthday

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I could stare at her perfectly soft cheeks and blue eyes all day!
Mckenzie turned 3 years old on Tuesday July 10th.  We put her to bed the night before and she was a bit excited about the next day.  We could hear her singing "Happy Birthday" to herself in her bedroom.  And she kept coming out of her room to ask something about the next day.  One random thing she said was that she wanted to go to a dance class after her birthday party.  I don't know where that came from. 

She finally fell asleep.  Only to wake up at 2am.  And then at 6:45am.  Who needs sleep?  I woke up to her right in front of my face whispering, "is it time to go down stairs?" 

July 9th is Evie's birthday (Mckenzie's friend from church who passed away a month ago).  To celebrate Evie's bday we brought some balloons and released them at the cemetery.

  I'm thankful for the reminder that life is so precious.
For Mckenzie's birthday breakfast we had chocolate chip pancakes with whipped cream and sprinkles.  Before Justin left for work we let her open one present from Cici and Papa.  It was bracelets you can decorate.  Mckenzie, Channing, and I wore one almost all day.  A little later that morning she convinced me to let her open a few more presents. 


After opening presents and playing for a bit Mckenzie wanted to do an "experience" or otherwise known as an experiment.  We did a volcano.


At lunch time Julia and kids came over for lunch.  The kids played, I turned on the sprinkler and we did water balloons.  Then we had cupcakes with purple frosting.  Mckenzie loooves the attention from being sung to.  And it was so cute to see Ryan and Channing trying to get a picture of her with their cameras. 


So much excitement!





The girls ran around saying "I'm superman!"


In lieu of quiet time I let Mckenzie pick a movie to watch.  And of course she picked Trolls.  I'm so sick of that movie.  But she still loves it!

Justin got home from work and we headed to Grimaldi's for a pizza dinner.  After dinner we watched the fountains and let the kids play.  Channing chased some girls around and Mckenzie wanted us to chase her. 
They give kids pizza dough to play with.



Trying to take a picture with a 3 year old....

On the drive home we hit up the McDonald's drive thru to get the kids a chocolate hot fudge sunday.  And with that the day was over! 

We'll also have a family party on Friday.  Mckenzie has requested a butterfly/rainbow cake.  Wish me luck!


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