And here's the rest of the (birthday) story

I'm happy to say that I finally have my camera back and I feel like everything is right with the world again.  I really did feel lost without it.  I wanted to be sure and record the rest of Rachel's birthday activities before she turns four and I've completely forgotten.  It is so strange that her birthday was just three weeks ago and yet I feel like we've had a three year old for months now.  I love making a big deal out of birthdays and this year did not disappoint. 

After her donut party, we went to lunch with Aunt Ginny, Libby, Levi and Nana.


That night my parents asked R where she wanted to go for dinner and she very excitedly chose Chuck E Cheese.   We had quite an "experience" there with an assistant manger who rudely told us that we could not bring outside food in (for Ethan) and she didn't really care if he had allergies or not because policy is policy.  I really wish I could have recorded Clay's reaction to that one - awesome!


Clay and I had decided earlier in the week to get R a real bike for her birthday, and that we should probably take her to pick it out to make sure we got the right size and the right color for Miss Picky.  We started off at Toys-R-Us and didn't have any luck, made a stop by Target and they didn't have any small enough, went to the local bike store and decided we'd rather be able to pay our bills that month than get her a set of wheels, so we ended up at Wal-Mart and found the perfect one.  I'm not sure if she's more excited about the helmet Mimi bought her or the bell on the bike, but she likes riding and that's all that matters.


Sunday was her real birthday which meant she moved up to the next Bible class.  She was a little diasppointed that Sophia wasn't there that day and she was the only girl in this class, but said she still enjoyed being in the big kid class.  (Tracy - we were loving Paige's dress!) 


We always let the kids decide where they want to eat and what they want to do on their real birthday (as if we hadn't been doing that all weekend but whatever).  She asked to eat at Chuy's (score on that one!) and then go to Build-a-Bear so we obliged.


That day happened to be Super Bowl Sunday so Rachel got to show off her booty-shaking skills at Joe & Kelly's house while we all stuffed our faces with a ridiculous amount of food.


And then the birthday festivities came to a close on Monday when we went to visit my Granny & Pa so they could give sister her birthday gifts.


She's already talking about what she wants to do for her "number 4" birthday so I probably need to start gearing up for it now!