Birthday at the park

Yesterday was Genna's 3rd birthday. Since we are so close to baby brother's arrival and it is tax season, I had decided that we were just going to have a family birthday party this year. I changed my plans when I realized just how excited Genna was about her birthday this year. For the past 2 years, I don't even think she knew that it was even a special day even though we had parties, but THIS year, she has been talking about it for over a month! She told me that she wanted a purple cake with Peter Pan (I figured Tinkerbell was close enough) and that her friends would sing Happy Birthday and she would blow out candles. So, we decided to have a small get-together with our friends from our Monday morning Bible study at the park on her actual birthday. She loved it!
Here she is waiting to blow out her candles...

Obviously, blowing out the candles...

Baby Shelby, the youngest friend at the party...

Apparently, Genna only liked the purple icing...

Trying to get a good picture of the birthday girl....it didn't exactly happen.

close-up of her birthday shirt...

After naps, we played outside and ate more purple cupcakes with our neighbors. They were in school during the earlier party.

Genna showing me her Strawberry Shortcake DVD that Jack and Sam gave her.