Birthday: Part III "The Big Shebang!"

On April 19th (one day after those torrential rain storms that flooded out many areas of Houston) we hosted Kendall's official birthday party at Stevenson Park in Friendswood.A picture of the invites that mommy & daddy painstakingly glittered, be-jeweled and assembled!

It was an absolutely gorgeous day, albeit windy! We had a wonderful turnout--in all over 100 people in attendance--lots of playgroup friends, schoolmates, family (from near & far) and other special friends!

Not a cloud in the sky!

The most magnificent cake EVER! Cakes by Gina rocked the house yet AGAIN with a most delicious topsy turvy cake that exceeded even mommy's high expectations! The cake was a perfect match to the invites!




The cutest little girl you ever did see!
(Later, when asked what her favorite thing about the party was, Kendall enthusiastically exclaimed, "THE CAKE"!)

Lots of other yummies!

The activities for the afternoon included pottery painting (teacups, of course), train rides on the Mad Hatter's Express, Tea Cup Toss, and the bounce house.

The party favors included personalized M&Ms and bags of delicious glazed popcorn made by mommy's friends Abby & Will! YUMMY!

Many, many thanks to the following:

Cakes by Gina for the amazing cake!

Cafe Natalie Catering for the yummy dips, appetizers & tea sandwiches!

Over the Top for the lovely linens!

Sharon Nicole Photography for the awesome pics!

Special Arrangements Florist for the adorable centerpieces!

*If you are ever in need of any of the above services (catering, cakes, linens, flowers, photos) I HIGHLY recommend all these people!*

And to the following people for all of their help:

Abby & Will- Thanks for making & bagging all that popcorn! And thanks for blowing up all those balloons!

Chris Rock-you simply ROCK! Everyone raved about how awesome you were!

Lisa J- Seriously, what would I have done without you?! You bent over backwards to help me out on this one! I majorly owe you....BIG TIME!

Birthday: Part II

So, to continue the festivities....we had a birthday celebration with our playgroup (thanks to Marisa for hosting this event at the last minute). Everyone got together for cupcakes and fun....and a little bit of dress-up, too! Mommy's good friend, Kasey, of Monkey Tree Photography (who has been photographing Kendall since she was a newborn) came over and snapped pics of all the kiddos in their silliest dress-up attire. A good time was had by all!

Here are some of Kasey's lovely photos of the FAB-u-lous Miss K!

And a few snapshots that mommy's friend Lisa took:

A Birthday in 3 Acts! Part I

[Pardon me for being so behind in my blogging. I've had 6 weddings in the past 30 days! Whew!]


SO, our little tiny baby turned 3 on April 13th! We wonder how that is even possible, it seems as if she was just born yesterday!

What better way to to celebrate one's 3rd birthday than THREE celebrations!

On April 13th, the actual day of her birthday,we started out the day by going for main/pedis. Kendall thoroughly enjoyed herself, as you can see. Every smile seen below was totally un-prompted...she was tickled pink with being treated like such a BIG GIRL! Of course she picked out purple polish...and even got flowers painted on her toes!

Once daddy got home from work, we went to Main Event for a round of bowling. Kendall has been bowling before, and really enjoys it (for about 5 frames). Then, we went and played video games since she loves those (wonder where she gets THAT trait from!). She (and her daddy) had a great time!

We wrapped up the evening with a dinner out at Pappasito's....one of K's favorite restaurants. She loved having the staff sing to her (we did the same thing last year and she got a kick out of it the, too) but was slightly disappointed that no sombrero was involved this year (somebody walked off with it!)