She's THREE!!

Happy Birthday Addison!

She's growing up too fast!! This is her helping me make her (second) cake.  First cake was a flop...it was supposed to be a Barbie cake (where the cake is Barbie's skirt).  I tried to take a short cut and use a Pyrex bowl to bake it in instead of buying the $20 kit at Hobby Lobby.  The cake I ended up with was wonderful though and home made!!

Friday I took off work to go to the zoo, but plans changed for the better and I took her to the swim club we belong to.  It was a gorgeous, cloudless day, 89 degrees.  Here she is on the slide...

Friday Jack was in Kettering helping Angie and Tony build their fence, so Addison and I went up there in the evening for dinner with them and mom and dad.  Jack came down with the flu that I had the previous Wednesday and he was in bed (and bathroom) ALL day with a fever.  I had the Wessel's over for dinner.  I made chicken kebabs with peppers, onions, zucchini, and tomatoes; mac and cheese (Addy and Steve's request), broccoli salad, etc.

Besides the zoo membership, Jackie and Jim bought her the Zuko popsicle maker from Williams Sonoma that I've been wanting since Christmas.  It was sold out all over Ohio at Christmas time.  It is SOOOOOO cool.  It freezes popscicles in 7 minutes.  We tested it out on Sunday morning with a strawberry kiwi Danimal smoothie. 

Jackie also whipped up 2 adorable outfits--the one she is wearing and then a white dress with ladybugs on it.  I am saving it for a birthday party in the future.

Sunday Jack was feeling better (it was a 24 hr flu) so we went back up to Centerville for Addy's birthday pool party at Aunt Julie's house.  She got WAY too many gifts!! All she really wanted was a model car that was yellow like her Pawpaw's.  Mom got her a tiny one and she thought it was the best ever!  She did like Aunt Angie and Uncle Tony's Dora guitar too!

And she was the only one who swam since it was only about 70-75 degrees and windy!!  New suit thanks to Aunt Julie!

And then we had ELE cake!!  ELE cake was who made Angie's wedding cake and this is the third cake we've gotten from there since her wedding in April. 

Absolutely best weekend ever!!  Addison is such a little princess and a mini-me.  Before Jackie and Jim came over and brought her birthday outfit, she was dressed like me.  She even wanted to take a picture of me with my old Nikon point and shoot...this is what she got....pretty good, huh??

I was finishing the relish tray with my apron :)  She was laughing so hard