Aliyah turns THREE!

Well, most 3 year olds don't get 4 birthday celebrations but she's pretty special:)  We started the weekend before with a visit to Emma and Luke's (another post).  Then her birthday was a Wednesday so we had a quiet birthday dinner and ice cream cake at home with some gifts. 

 Her request was a cake with her name on it, easy enough!

 

Then Grandpa Ken, mom-mom and some friends came over to celebrate more!  Luckily the weather warmed up enough for the kids to have some water fun.

It ended the weekend after with a visit from Aunt Julie and MORE cupcakes!  We sure love our little 3 year old!

What a blessing she truly is to our lives.  She is SO full of life and happiness.  She cheers for everything, even a nice day.  She has a great vocabulary for her age.  She loves to sing and dance and do everything big kids do.  She hugs and kisses and says "I love you" all day long.  She truly is a blessing from God and we're so excited to see all the plans He has made for her.:)

OBX for Ryan'sWeddng

We were pretty exciting for a wedding, a first for the kids.  And excited for the first ever real Mogel family vacation.  We weren't off to a good start, Max got sick right before we left.  Ended up postponing our hopeful early start on a long drive to hit up the Urgent Care first.  It turned out to just be a virus and we got drops for his eyes and headed on our way.  The drive wasn't too bad, just long since we didn't leave till 9am.  We got down there, took quick walk to the beach and settled in for the night.  The next day of course Aliyah came down with what Max had but the drops helped her right away too.  The weather was lousy so we just relaxed and visited with family at the beach house.  By Friday Nate had it so everyone was pretty miserable.  I somehow managed to miss it all, possibly from over sanitizing in hope we wouldn't spread it to anyone else in the house, but it's not too fun to spend a vacation with a sick family and non-beach going weather but it was great to spend time with extended family we rarely see and of course attend a beautiful wedding!

 

We did have one good beach morning (clouds ran though by mid-afternoon and it dropped a good 20 degrees).  The kids enjoyed splashing and digging with each other!

 

 

 What happens when you're not in swim diapers anymore!

 Took a field trip with mom-mom to see the first ever airplane while daddy was back sick in bed.

Cooler weather made the hot tub a perfect spot (only for short times for the kids of course!)

Went to the sand dunes too, they were awesome!

 Max took his new kite.

Luckily the weather cleared up some and it was a beautiful evening for a wedding at a beautiful location, the aquarium.

 Dinner in the shark tank room!

 Dancing the night away...