Payton's Birthday!!!

Our little girl is now 3 years old. I just can't even begin to describe the joy this little girl has brought us over the last 3 years. Who would of known that such a little person could make such a huge impact on your life. She is our whole world and we just love seeing the world through her eyes!!! There are many things about her that stand out at this point. She is such a little dare devil .. it has amazed me how she hasn't actually gotten "hurt" yet. She will climb on, jump off just about anything ... no matter how high it is. She is stubborn and has quite a little temper when she really wants something and either can't get it herself or is told No. She is a huge little fish ... and loves the water more than anything ... she even dives in the water head first now. She is still a very picky eater. I mean there are still only about 20 total food items that she will even attempt to taste. She is obsessed with her big girl panties and takes about 10 minutes everyday to pick out the perfect pair to wear for the day. She doesn't really care about what clothes or shoes she wears ... just want panties she has on. She loves to give kisses and hugs ... of course that always makes our day!!!! She is smart, beautiful, funny, sweet and just all around perfect. I can't imagine even for a second how our life would be without her ... she is everything to us!!!!

Anyway .. this is how we spent her actual bday ... she woke up and decided to open some presents from grandma and grandpa briant. She got lots of great books to read and then had grandma read her everyone of them ... 100 times!!!! Thank goodness grandma was here to read them and not me :)




Then she discovered all of her presents from her bday party the day before and went to town opening them all up and bugging Daddy to open every box...




She loved having her grandmas here to play with her ... and I will say its so nice to have a break from the "Mommy, read this one ..." all the time. So she played and played....



And then we did a cookie cake for her bday ... she doesn't like Cake ... so the cookie cake was right up her alley. She actually got to blow out a candle and loved being sang to again!!!

It was a great day ... I still can't believe my little girl is 3!!!!