Brooke is Three!

We got to celebrate Brooke's birthday this year at the family cottage, which means we had Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Tara, Uncle Derek, Emi & Clayton to help celebrate!  I stated in my previous post we planned two big events for Brooke's birthday. 1) Her first hair cut and 2) Giving Up her "B's".  Ok, so neither occurred, but o'well!  Maybe next year!

Also, coming back from a week at the cottage, means way too many pictures, too much laundry, and having to deal with a whole week back at work...ugh.  Well finally, here are the first batch of pictures from Brooke's birthday party.  We celebrated on Saturday this year, since her actual birthday was on Sunday, the day consisted of packing & driving home.

Tyler enjoyed all the festivities, and got a few presents of his own, since his special day is only a few weeks away.

Who ever came up with the saying, or superstition "opening an umbrella inside is bad luck", must not have had a super cool pirate, or fairy one!



Brooke's birthday cake this year was extra fancy...a nearby bakery made a special homemade ice cream turtle cake.  Between all the chocolate fudge, and homemade caramel, they almost forgot the ice cream, but the real bonus was the "no egg"!  Boy was is yummy!

The evening ended with one of the perfect Michigan sunsets!

Here are Brooke's sign pictures from the morning of her birthday!

Brooke enjoyed her favorite dinner of ravioli, and once again enjoyed getting it all over the place!

As you can tell by these last two pictures, this is the reason we take her sign pictures in the morning versus the evening!