Happy Birthday Evelyn!

Our gift was this cute pink purse that Evelyn was playing with in Kohl's months ago. I was getting Julia some pj's at the time and Evelyn and Jacob found a whole rack of purses to play with while I was busy. So I put the one she liked the most in the cart and she was none the wiser. And of course I wasn't about to give her an empty purse--it was filled with three huge tubes of mini-m&ms! Yummy!


Yeah, she's not about to let go of her new purse--nor the goodies in it!


For a long time we've been asking Evelyn what kind of birthday she wanted and reply was simply "Pink". Well, then she added princess in there too. Hence her princess birthday cake.


Blowing out all of the candles. She did a rather good job too (cheered on by her sister in the background!).


Ryan's parents had the biggest gift I have ever seen--and so beautifully wrapped too! All the pink ribbon was saved--my girls use it as shawls when they're dressing up.


The complete princess package! Evelyn was giving her high pitched squeal at this point. A cinderella dress, shoes, tiara, and wand?! She was in heaven!


And then there was this gift from Mom--OH MY GOSH! It had four different colored tiaras, diff colored feathered shawls, wands, and lighted microphone looking wands. Everyone digged into that box!


She really was a beautiful princess that day (and every day afterwards...McMom, she slept in that for days! We could hardly get the dress off of her).

There was plenty to go around and so we had quite a few princesses.:)


Jacob wasn't about to let the girls have all the fun!