Birthday Pictures!

Here are some pictures from Arabella's 3rd Birthday!

Princess Arabella wearing her new tiara!

Happy Birthday and 4th of July Cupcakes

Sharing her cupcake with Grandma Patti

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We celebrated Arabella's birthday over the 4th of July weekend in Okoboji! Dave's brother Steve and his fiance Joanna, Dave's younger brother Mark and his girlfriend Sarah, and Dave's mom Patti all came up to help us celebrate. We had such a fun time! It was great weather and we made some great memories!

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On Arabella's birthday (July 8), she woke up and came downstairs to her big birthday surprise - her new big girl bike! :) She was ecstatic and wanted to go ride it right away. She loves riding to the mailboxes to get the mail - she even puts the mail key into her princess pouch on the front of her bike. We also celebrated at Incredible Pizza for dinner. Her favorite part was going on the Go Karts with her Daddy.

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Arabella and her Great-Gramma Alice having a tea party in the swimming pool

Daddy and Arabella

Arabella requested a "Balloon cake with suckers" (just like we saw at Target), so we made our first Jello poke cake! It was really good! :) You can see the sucker "balloons" were a big hit! She was really excited.

Three Year Old Swimmer Girl!

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We also celebrated Bella's birthday in Sioux City with my parents, my Aunt Debbie, Uncle Al, and my Gramma Alice. We had a pool party, complete with a serious volleyball game and tea parties with Arabella... Then we grilled and opened presents. I love that our families are so involved with Arabella and they all come to help celebrate her birthdays with us. :)

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