August 18, 2007 - Happy Birthday Cara (2 days early) - You are now 3 Years Old!!!

2 days before Cara turned 3 years old, we decided to go to Adventure Zone, which was in Ham Lake, to have a party. It turned out to be a rainy day, so it was a good idea to celebrate inside. They let the kids play on the slides and the mazes and then everyone ate pizza, opened presents and then ate cake.

Cara had a lot of friends come to her party - Nick, Ben, Aidan, Quinn, Cecelia, Carmela, Dominic and Blake all came to help her celebrate. Of course she and her friends had so much fun playing that we forgot to take pictures of all the playing. We did remember to take pictures of the eating and the present opening.

Here you can see Paul, Jenny, Aidan and Maria sat at one end of the table

Here you can see Grandma Pat, Grandpa Skip, Ron, Jennifer and Liv at the other

Cara blew out the candles all by herself. It took some convincing to Nick and Ben to allow this to happen.

She even took time out from her big day to pose with her Daddy for a picture in front of her cake.

Here you can see Nick, Ben, Dominic and Aidan (with Mommy and Grandma Claudia in the background) eagerly ready to watch Cara open the presents.

Ben offered to help open the presents. Cara thanked him with a hug.




Nick helped open presents too. Cara had a lot of fun opening presents and had fun playing with what was inside too.

She also had a lot of fun handing out hugs (here, to Cecelia and to Grandma Claudia)

When all was said, sung and done, it was time to go. Everyone had a good time and packed up and went back into the rain. Just to show what a good big brother here is, Nick even helped pack up the toys!!

We can hardly believe our little Caroline is now 3 years old. The time went by so fast. She is turning into such a big girl and is so much fun. We are so lucky!