Laney is 3!

Laney turned 3 years old on Friday, September 17th! The next several posts are all birthday related. We started celebrating early on the actual day of her birthday. That night Grandma and Klanci drove in from BA and Nana and Dawson flew in from KC! Laney was in heaven celebrating with so many of her family and friends. We had her birthday party at Pump It Up (a bounce house) with her favorite friend Kesler. His birthday is a week after hers. They had a great time! Thanks to everyone for making the weekend so special!

Here we are before we left for the party on Saturday morning.

Another one...this time with me in it!

Laney and Dawson were dancing around outside of Pump It Up!

Pump It Up Party!

Laney had a blast with Kesler, Dawson and lots of her friends at Pump It Up!

Group shot making silly faces!

The cake: Dora, Boots and Diego!

Laney, Kesler and Reese just before we sang Happy Birthday!

The Birthday Duo!

Birthday, Birthday, Birthday!

Dawson was really good at driving the jeep so Laney was content as the passenger for most of the weekend. They put major miles on the new ride...going all the way down Tam O'Shanter at one point!

Nothing like a little leftover birthday cake for breakfast!

We took a trip to Build-A-Bear and the girls got matching puppies...both named Hanna!

Here's Laney (in one of her birthday costumes), opening the awesome magnetic fishing game from cousin Erin.

Laney was so excited to finally meet her cousin Erin! We were so happy that Erin got to come to the birthday party!

More presents!

Here she is unwrapping her Diego Rescue Center from Grandma and Pops. She was so excited she could hardly stand it!

Aunt Klanci is helping her put together yet anther awesome Diego toy!

Yeah! Candy for my birthday!

A big girl robe from Meemee!

Look! Cupcake plates from Nana and Umps!

3rd Birthday!

After much anticipation, September 17th finally arrived and Laney turned 3! She woke up early on her birthday so we started celebrating immediately!

By 6:45 am she was blowing out the candles on her strawberry cake!

She was thrilled with her pink jeep! Dru covered it up with a blanket out in the garage and she was so surprised when he uncovered it! Thanks Nana, Umps and Meemee!

By 7am she was cruising in the back yard. We need to work on steering AND pushing the pedal at the same time!

She opened more presents from Dru and I that morning! The partying had just begun!

First Day at New Preschool!

Laney's first day of preschool was a success! She was so proud to be in preschool and very brave. No tears thank goodness! Even though she's technically been in school before...it felt very special. :)

Here she is with her teacher, Mrs. Oliphant. She was distracted so this is the best picture I could get. Laney says she is SO nice! She asked me if I knew that Mrs. Oliphant had 3 kids of her own? I guess they talked about it on the first day.

Here she is right before she went in.

Here's a picture from orientation when she first met Mrs. Oliphant!