celebrating the plus 3

On March 13, Eden turned three. Of course, we started celebrating early (like Thursday) - just like her Momma.

We started Eden's birthday celebration with a tea party!

And by Friday night, we were building a castle. But not just any castle - a box castle. I had been collecting appliance boxes since Monday of her birthday week - a very kind woman named Hollie at Appliance Distributors of Louisiana would save me a few boxes every day. This is what those boxes (and a little help from a very creative brother-in-law and skilled knifesman father-in-law) produced. Ashley was disappointed she couldn't help physically execute the design but she was the original source for the idea so she gets some credit, too.

We finally got to bed around midnight (not all due to the castle construction, State was playing their last basketball game of the season). We woke up to Eden asking if she could go find her Coco and Britton and Granddaddy and CC ... and a whole lot of presents. She knew it was the day of her party, and she was pretty pumped. She was so excited that she had to go for her presents and "just get it ready" for later.

Around 9:00, Nona arrived! Eden was happy to see her (especially since Nona did not make Eden put her clothes on right away).

They played, and we finished cooking, decorating, and getting things set up for the 10:30 arrival of guests.