Holy Smoke- Someone's Turning 4!!

Rylee turned 4 on October 20th. As hard as it was to believe that Quinn was one, it was even harder to realize that Rylee is now 4, and that I am the Mom of a 4 year old!!! It's crazy how fast this has gone by. She is such her own little person- very determined and has a mind of her own! (She gets that from her Dad I think).

We had our own little party at the house on the night of her birthday for just us. Rylee picked pancakes and sausage for supper so that was pretty easy.

For the past 2 months, she has been begging for a carrot cake from wal-mart so we decided that would be pretty easy to do for her birthday cake. Ry was so excited for the darn thing! We lite the candles, sang Happy Birthday and blew out the candles. One bite of the cake for each of us when we knew that we had the WORST cake ever. It was awful- and I really mean it. Even Rylee spit it out. We were so disappointed as Ry had been begging for this for months. It was dry and crumbly (in the worst way possible) and the frosting had an awful taste. It wasn't long before it found it's way in to the garbage. Thank goodness we ordered a cake from Jan for the big party on Sunday! Did I mention it will be a My Little Pony party, complete with a pinata?

Ry was so excited to open gifts. She was in awe over the amount of them. Mom is really good at wrapping everything individual!! She got snoopy socks from her fish Orangie, a camera from Monty, a my little pony from Emma, a Tinkerbell puzzle from Quinnie and some clothes from Mom and Dad (I know, not that exciting).

She was excited for all of them but we ended up disappointed with the camera. You can't tell what color the objects in the pictures are as they are all shades of yellow and the camera is really fuzzy. Needless to say, it is going back to Target and Ry will get to pick out a new one. She LOVES taking pictures and is pretty good at it. Oh well, she had a great time with gifts and loves her snoopy socks and my little pony.

All in all I don't think Ry cared that the cake was the worst ever or the camera wasn't the best. She had a great time opening gifts and being the "Birthday Girl". Can't believe she is 4- little misty eyed at the fact that she is growing up so fast! Guess I just have to get used to it- don't have to like it but get used to it.