The simple mind of a 3 year old

The other day, Ady and I ran to Ogden to run some errands, on our drive down the canyon, I asked her what kind of a cake she wanted for her birthday coming up. She proceeded to explain this American Girl cake to me, however, I wasn't getting it (or didn't want to!) So I told her when we got home to show me it, sure enough she brought this out to me (WHAT!) I love to cook and bake, however, I really don't pay to much attention to making it "look pretty", I thought I'd better try it out. We're headed to some friends house tomorrow for Super Bowl and I decided to start her week of birthday celebrating with them, so today I busted out the cake decorating materials and after a couple hours of concentration and back pains...

here's the end result. Who cares anyway what it looks like, right? It just matters how it tastes.? The whole time Ady was trying to convince me what I a good job I was doing. She's my sugar-pie.

Ski Day

I didn't dare take my camera up on the slopes, so you get one of us in the ski rental store. Lex and I finally got to go skiing last week and HAD A BLAST! I didn't get to see Lexxy ski the first time she learned how and I was totally amazed at how talented she is (totally a Nielson gene!). I was nervous cause I hadn't been skiing for over 10 years and thought for sure that I was going to have to help her re-learn. No way! She was cruising down those slopes with a gigantic grin on her face. So fun!

'Da Salon

When you live in a house full of girls and an occasional Pops, you have to get your hair done at 'da salon, this was salon night and the girls wanted to take a picture of "my do"... you can see Pops in the background, it wasn't his lucky night.

Celebration tres and quattro

I don't have pictures for the other 2 celebrations, but we went to dinner with her dad at her favorite restaurant Texas Roadhouse and then to dinner the following weekend with Muppy and Pops - so all in all, I would say it was a pretty darn good week of birthday celebrations (she's spoiled!)

Celebration numero dos

I always load the pictures in the wrong order... this is lunch from our second birthday celebration. Both Lexxy and Ady have girl-cousins close to their age and they live in the same state as us. So Lexxy requested Build-a-Bear workshop with her cousins. Thankfully my sister (with her husbands approval :) ) agreed to meet us at Gateway. We had fun, a little crazy with 6 kids, but we accomplished and even got some lunch!

Lexxy with her cuzs at lunch, wish we could get together more often with them!

Lex and Ads at Build-a-Bear, look how happy they are! By the way, that place is stinkin' expensive, highway robbery I say!!

Lexxy got to ring the bell for her birthday and then everyone in the store yelled "Happy Birthday" to her, it was funny cause she didn't know what they were going to do, so it embarassed her. Hee hee!

Happy Birthday Lexxy! Celebration numero uno...

We celebrated Lexxy's birthday the whole week. I told her we wouldn't be doing a "friends" birthday party this year, so we ended up celebrating 4 TIMES! Whew! I think I'd rather do a party. This is the first celebration, we had some friends over Sunday night for Lexxy's favorite dinner (Teriyaki chicken salad) So delish! I was brave and made a 4 layer chocolate cake with stabilized whip cream ( I had no idea what that was!). It was AMazing!

Look at my big girl growing up before my eyes. I can't stand it! I tell her to stop growing and she just giggles at me...