Mia is 3!

This beautiful, independent, spunky little lady is three!  I still can't believe it.  

Mia is such a bright light in our lives.  She is so very happy, and loves to play pretend...her imagination is amazing! And she is always saying the funniest things.  She loves to take care of everyone, and is always making sure everyone around her is happy.   Mia loves to help me everything... especially baking.  She loves to wear beautiful dresses, and curtseys and twirls whenever she has one on.  We also just started her in dance class, and she is so stinking adorable!  She is such a little goofball, and has become such a daddy's girl recently.  She also loves to give hugs and kisses..which is quite a change from last year. :)  Her big brother is her hero, even though it is usually her who convinces him to do naughty things.  She asks me everyday when she will get to see her new sister's face.  We love this little sweetheart with our whole hearts and souls, and can't wait to see what the next year with her will bring us!

Mia has been completely obsessed with mermaids as of late.  I pinterested a cake and attempted to make it.  Mia seemed thrilled, so I call it a success. :)

She requested pink pancakes with whipped cream and sprinkles for her breakfast.  And blueberry muffins. :)

The funny little lady has been talking about her birthday almost non-stop since February.  She was so excited when she woke up to find that the day had finally arrived!

She immediately put on her mermaid tail and cradled her new mermaids.  

She wanted a swimming party with her best friends. :)

Remember the mess of paper mache? The final result... a piñata that would not break without the help of grown men. :)

The party wore this big girl out... she crashed on the bean bag.

I know this picture is blurry, but I love how it shows her mischievous little face.  She wanted pizza for her birthday dinner, and thought she was so funny, hiding behind the booth.

After dinner we went on a ride to the park... this is a distraught Mia because she couldn't get her helmet off all by herself.  

Sometime's life is hard.

But it always gets better. :)

And this little boy was able to go across the monkey bars, all by himself, for the very first time!

We headed home in time for cake!

What happens when mom accidentally buys the candy with warheads in it for the piñata. :)

Strawberry Picking

Berry season is upon us!  The kiddos are great berry pickers... but we can't ever seem to pick enough berries for me to be able to make jam before their daddy inhales them all.....  

After picking berries, we headed to Two Light's State Park with some dear friends who were moving to Colorado to start a big boy EM job. 

Mia and Lincoln... she loves, loves Lincoln. :)

Logan loves, loves climbing.  And rocks. :)

Life

Some of life's little happenings....

Everything always breaks when Ry is working evenings... Our washer started making weird noises and stopped altogether on one of those such evenings.  I am so incredibly grateful for the good appliance mechanics of YouTube... thanks to them I was able to disassemble the washer and find the replacement part to pick up the next morning.  $15 bucks later and the washer runs like new!

We had a few rainy days in a row, so I (for some strange reason) thought Paper Mache would be a fun inside project.  I needed to make Mia's piñata for her party anyway, so I enlisted the kids help.  5 minutes later and both children and my entire house was covered in the stuff.  Kid's make life fun. :) 

My little monkey... I just always have to look up to find him.

This little lady loves, loves her daddy.  When he's sleeping she is always trying to get into his room by saying, "I'll just sing him a song, mommy!", or "Daddy needs this (insert object), I'll just put it by him."  Tricky little thing. 

This blue-eyed cutie lost his 3rd tooth!  He really wanted it out, so tied one end of a string to the tooth and the other end to a door... and slammed it.  No hesitation with this kid.  The little tooth rocketed across the room and is still m.i.a.  

(Briar is the name of his tooth fairy)  

Wolfesneck State Park

This past weekend we headed up to Freeport to explore Wolfesneck State Park.  So many fun adventures!

Logan found and rescued a cute little crab.

We also found a dead horshoe crab... creepy!

So pretty!

One of the islands in the park is a protected Osprey habitat.  It was so fun to have these huge birds soaring over us the whole time we were there!

Cutie pies

my monkey

We ended our adventure with a stop at Wicked Whoopies.  :)

In other news, our newest little lady is growing and growing!  I can't believe we are so close to the end of this pregnancy already.  I have been measuring a month big this whole pregnancy, and it definitely feels like it!  My OB ordered another ultrasound for me, because of how big I'm measuring  and they estimate the little one to be 2 weeks big, and in the 80th percentile of babies if she makes it to her due date.  Ahhhh!  With Logan and Mia I always measured small... She also, apparently, had tons of hair in the ultrasound.  We can't wait to meet her!

Buddies

I don't know why they have their own rooms....