Little Duck

Last week Aubrey's dance studio had picture day for the upcoming recital. I have a feeling the night of the recital is going to be crazy so I took several pictures of her all dressed up on picture day. She has really enjoyed taking ballet and tap this year and we are looking forward to the recital in a few weeks!
Here is our precious Duckie:)

Princess Tea Party!

We celebrated Aubrey's 4th birthday with a princess dress up tea party. It was at a place called "Tea Par Tea" that specializes in this sort of thing. When I took Aubrey to check it out a few months ago I could not get her or Reagan to leave and knew right away it was the perfect place for her birthday this year.

Just arrived and helping Mommy set up the cake

Aubrey is FOUR!!!!

"The Palace" where Aubrey's tea party was held.

The before shot of all the girls...

Picking out dresses and jewels...

Ta da! All dressed up like pretty princesses:)

 

Sadie and Aubrey talking tea manners.

The Tea party in action. The girls got gems if they used their manners and whoever had the most gems at the end of the tea party got to pick from the treasure chest. They were so well behaved and it was hilarious listening to them saying all sorts of sweet things to earn the princess rewards.  

Even Reagan participated like a big kid!

Singing Happy Birthday!

Four candles!

 The strawberry cake I made was a big hit!

Birthday girl with mommy and daddy!

Then we went home and opened gifts! It was such a fun day. Happy Birthday Aubrey Lynn!!  You are such a joy to love, and it's a blessing to have you as a daughter and big sissy.

4 years!

Aubrey turned 4 last week on Tuesday May 14th! I still can't believe our baby girl is 4, she is growing up so fast.

Daddy was away training on her actual birthday but she still had a very special day. She knew he would be back for her party and kept telling people that her Daddy would be home soon to celebrate with her.

I think its officially a tradition in the Michael household now, Aubrey woke up to a room full of balloons. My girls get so excited about this and it makes the day start off extra special for them.

Then we went down stairs and had greek yogurt pancakes for her birthday breakfast.

It was a gorgeous day so we spent most of it outside playing. I took some phone pics at the park of the girls playing to send Daddy....

The day ended with a special treat, frozen yogurt!  Aubrey picked chocolate and birthday cake swirl with sprinkle toppings! Reagan wanted "nanny cake" yogurt so she got birthday cake with bananas on top:)

Good to the last drop!

Great Wolf Lodge

Nana & Pap came to visit for a week and during their visit they took us to Great Wolf Lodge for a few days in Williamsburg for the girls birthday present. We had so much fun at Great Wolf, the girls played so hard every day, I am pretty sure we did every activity that Great Wolf has to offer!

It was hard to take pictures at the indoor water park without risking ruining my camera but I managed to get a few. Aubrey really surprised us with how adventurous she was at the park. She did all sorts of water slides big and small!

Reagan loved splashing in the fountains, lazy river, and sitting in the warming tub. Each morning she would wake up saying "pool" and try to put on her swim suit!

Playing in the warming tub....

Waiting for the waves to begin in the wave pool.....

Waves are coming!!!

Pap about to soak Aubrey...

Each night they do a little show in the lobby and then Wylie the Wolf reads a bedtime story. My girls ate it up! 

Hitting up the arcade...

 I was obsessed with this activity below called "Oliver's Time Challenge", your challenge is to race against the clock and push as many buttons as you can before time runs out. The buttons you are suppose to push light up. I might have pushed a few kids over to win the challenge;)  My mom and Nate thought I was crazy, if you can't find me at Great Wolf I probably will be in this room playing by myself, ha!

Can you see Aubrey's pink hair extension below? My parents bought "Paw Passes" for each of the girls and it included tons of activities along with other things like ice cream, hair extension, making your own Wylie stuffed animal, MagiQuest, the list goes on and on;)

We really enjoyed ourselves at Great Wolf. There is so much to do,I am excited to take the kids back when they are older to experience it on a different level. Thanks Nana and Pap we had a blast (Mommy & Daddy too), we love you!!!