Birthday Party with Family

Today is Ella's 3rd Birthday! We mostly celebrated yesterday, with a lot more family, but today we still celebrated a little just here at home- the 5 of us.

Saturday, Aug. 18th
My sister, Amy and all her kids came up to bring their oldest son, Alec, to BYU. We hadn't seen the kids in 3 years. They had been staying at my mom's in Ogden and decided to come down to be with us on Saturday. It was perfect timing since we were in the mood for a party. We met them in Salt Lake and kept Malorie and Camarie. They came with us to the Heritage Park. It was so fun to have them with us. They are so cute and it's been WAY too long since we've seen them.

 

Liv and Camie on the train. We jumped on to start out our day there. We then went to an area with a boat and a little stream where we panned for gold.

We went inside an old church building. The pews were definately not comfortable back then.

In our last stop of the trip, we went to Brigham's Doughnuts and 3 dozen! We didn't finish them but thought we could. Oh, they are so yummy.

After we got back we went to the creamery. We just left Ashton and daddy behind since the two of them were to tired to go walk around the canyon at Bridal Veil falls. We did all that then came back to our place and had some grilled dogs.

Pinata Time! Ella got to pick out the pinata this year and she picked SpongeBob.

this is priceless

 I love this picture. How quickly kids become good friends!

 the cake is for all 3 kids!  5-3-1

My cute sis. I didn't get any other pics of her. It seems like that always happens. uhg!

It was so good to be with them. It just feels so right to be surrounded by family. The kids had a great time with their cousins and it was just a perfect day.