Happy 3rd Birthday, Maegan!

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey helped us celebrate Maegan's birthday today. The show was great and we enjoyed the company of Grandma Denise & Grandpa Monte, Uncle Aaron, Aunt Jackie, and cousin Jaidyn at the circus. After the show, Uncle Isaac and Aunt Nicky joined us at our house for a clown cake and ice cream. Maegan's favorite parts of the circus were the elephants, the clowns, the acrobats, and the motorcycles. The motorcycle performance was amazing. You can read about the Torres Family on the Ringling.com site (see the Blue Circus of Dreams 136th edition). They ride 7 motorcycles around inside a 16 ft steel sphere...all at once! I had to cover my eyes and peek though my fingers.

Here's a picture of the cake Maegan and I made together. The mouth and eyebrows are made from pull-apart Twizzlers. The curly hair is made of colored Twizzlers spiraled up. We used gummy Lifesavers with Mike & Ikes for the eyes and nose and a couple of Mike & Ikes for color on the cheeks. Orange slice-shaped gum drops make the bow tie. Maegan kept wanting to eat all the candy while we were working on it, of course!


And here's Maegan blowing out her candles. She's wearing her new dress-up fairy princess outfit with her party hat (thanks, Grandma & Grandpa!).


Maegan requested party hats and balloons, so we made some party hats with construction paper and ribbons. Maegan colored the hats with markers. Here's a shot of Ethan in his hat with Uncle Aaron.