Saturday, December 18, 2010

Tessa's 4th Birthday

Tessa's friend Hudson gave her a craft project at her party. She loves to paint, so she was excited when on her actual birthday I let her loose on her work of art.


Beautiful!
And then this kid.... you pull out the camera and he automatically shoves his chin in the air yelling, "Cheeeeeeesssse!" Cheese is right. :)

She had to wait until her daddy got home to open her gifts from us. Here is the long awaited, pined for kid umbrella:


Right after presents were opened, Tessa and I had to run to a wedding rehearsal and dinner. Tessa was asked to be the flower girl in Brittany's (my boss? The cute gal I read for) wedding.
The rehearsal ran late, and as a result so did the dinner, so Jake and Cole were unable to join us for that portion of the evening. It was nice to have a little one on one time with Tessa, and Jake admitted it was fun to have one on one time with Cole --since I sent them to get burgers together. At the dinner, they had a birthday princess balloon in Tessa's spot, and they even paused during all the wedding speeches, food, and fun to sing "Happy Birthday" to her. How sweet is that?! She was glowing. "They all know it's my birthday!"
This must have been taken the next morning by Jake. Tessa thought she saw some clouds in the sky and wanted to test out her umbrella.

2 comments:

Talbot Family said...

Too cute. I think that maybe she was just shading her self from the sun :) That handy umbrella is going to save you from a lot of sun damage. Happy Birthday to my beautiful little Tessa pig.

Ranell and Brandon said...

Happy (late) Birthday to that sweet Tessa! I can't believe she is already 4. She is such a beautiful little girl. Looks like she made out well on that special day of hers. And what a pretty flower girl she is!