Happy 3rd Birthday, Brynn!

We helped cousin Brynn celebrate her third birthday with a small family party at Austin's parents house today.  She had a Minnie Mouse themed party and everyone had a great time! 

Grandma Kim always has the best wrapped presents!

The birthday girl smilin' for the camera.

Hadley loves parties right now and even though she knows it's Brynn's birthday, she still got a little confused as to why she didn't get any presents.  Daddy had to hug her and explain.

Taking in a big gulp of air to blow out that "3" birthday candle!

Happy 3rd Birthday Brynn!

Dora the Explorer - Beef n' Boards, Indy

Hadley LOVES Dora the Explorer.  When I heard that Dora was going to be live at Beef & Boards in Indianapolis, I didn't hesitate to buy tickets.  It was such a popular event thought, that by the time I called, I was only able to get 2 tickets, so Hadley and I were going to make a mommy-daughter day out of it.  That was until I went to the ER 2 nights ago with kidney stones, got admitted, had surgery and was released yesterday.  I was determined that she was not going to miss the show though, so I rode down with Austin and Hadley (I had a seizure in the ER and quit breathing so I couldn't stay home alone) so that they could check out Dora and the gang.  She absolutely loved it!   

Hadley was all decked out in her Dora shirt, Dora bracelet and her Dora purse.  Too cute!

She got to hug Diego, Dora's cousin.

She was a little more hesitant of Dora and Boots for some reason.  Austin called me and asked me to come in to the lobby and see if I could help her be more comfortable.  She ended up giving Boots a high five, but wanted nothing to do with Dora.  Austin and I suspect it's because she didn't really look much like Dora, and Hadley could tell she was a fake!  

Hadley's hiding behind her new Boots and Swiper (she already has Dora) dolls.  Grandma Joyce gave her a card with $20 to spend at the show.  She's not spoiled at all....

First Favorite Color: Purple!

I recently noticed that Hadley picks out purple when given a choice of colors.  The purple crayon is always the first that she colors with, she chose purple sunglasses for vacation and she loves her purple loofah as oppose to the pink.  There are a lot of other times that I've noticed her like for purple too.  I bet she'll be upset when she sees her pink room after it gets repainted this summer.  Sorry Miss Hadley, I already bought the bedding and decor before you decided to have a favorite color!  

Super Bowl XLVI

We are so excited that the Super Bowl is being held in our old stomping ground!  We did not want to miss the opportunity to take in all of the pre-Super Bowl activities while they were so close.  It was an awesome day with rather warm weather, so we decided to head down to the Super Bowl Village and see what it was all about.  We took Uncle Zeb with us and he scored us awesome parking at Lilly Corporate, only a few blocks from all of the festivities.        

Everyone had to check out the turf, and Hadley loved it!

Little Miss in her luxury ride for the evening.

We briefly went inside The Huddle in Circle Center Mall.  It was nice, but we enjoyed the activity outside much better.

There was a zip line downtown and Hadley thought it was pretty neat to watch all of the people zip over top of us.  If you look in the picture above, you can see someone zip lining.  

Family picture time, with Peyton and couple of other guys.  If Austin were writing this post, he could tell you who they are, but not me!  

Our awesome stadium!

ESPN Live.  This was one of daddy's favorite stops.

Hadley enjoyed the fly over...

Sports Nation...another one of daddy's favorite stops!

Starting to get tired, but still happy!

Being goofy while waiting for our food at P.F. Chang's for dinner.

She insisted on trying to eat with chop sticks like Uncle Zeb.  Not too bad for her first time!

Drinkin' on the streets = awesome!

...and she finally gave in to being tired.  Sweet little thing just laid back and was out, in spite of the loud live band we were trying to get past.

On our way down to the circle to check out the numerals.

What a good daddy and Uncle Hadley's got.  She saw a little girl with a butterfly balloon before she fell asleep and we finally found the clown making them.  Austin and Zeb stood in line for a good 20 minutes just to get her a butterfly balloon of her own.  The clown worked on donations, so daddy gave the him $5 for his hard work.  

Barely awake, but super happy to see that she got a butterfly balloon of her own!

A distant shot of the J.W. Marriott which was built in the effort to win the bid for the Super Bowl.  You can see the evening fireworks as well.  It was so awesome to come to the Super Bowl Village in a town that we know so well.  It made it easy to maneuver and take in all of the activities.  We're so glad we came!