Gracie Girl & Company: Evie and Presley's Birthday Parties!

Warning: This post is long and full of pictures. Too many pictures that they somehow got out of order. But you love Evie and Presley, you will love reading about their 3rd birthday!

Like I said, the pictures got out of order. Today was actually Evie and Presley's real birthday. We woke up this morning to give them our presents. Actuall;y, Gracie woke us up to open presents.

Evie was a lucky girl and got Doc McStuffins.

She even got some Doc McStuffins movies.

Gracie picked out this Playdough Princess set too. You make their dresses with the dough. Pretty sweet.

Gracie also picked out Captain Hook set for Bub. It comes in a treasure box and has a map, telescope, sword, and even a hook!

Presley got some Toy Story racecars.

And Evie got a new doll. Gracie thinks it's an Amerian Girl Doll. Sadly it's not. Those are too expensive. It's a My Generation Doll from Target. But they do sell outfits and accessories for these dolls too at a much cheaper price. This is Sadie.

Evie also got a new hat and mitten set for the winter. It's a purple (her favorite) owl.

Presley got a Thomas Train set. He has the Take-n-Play sets and this one goes with it too. It's pretty cool. It's a gold mine. (I bought most of these gifts over the summer when they were on clearance.)

One of Bub's favorite gifts was his new Avengers sweatshirt.

And like Evie, he got a new hat and mitten set. It's a blue owl. You know how I love matching!

Gracie couldn't wait to play pirates with Presley with his new set she picked out!

Evie got some new books too which she already has read like 20 times. She even read while Chuck recorded her. She likes to read it out loud to herself.

Here's the pirate boy in training. Argh!

Evie got a new bed for her babies (that I found at a garage sale for $2!)

She loved it! She put her babies to sleep right away!

After birthday presents, the birthday boy and girl decided they wanted to have their birthday lunch at the mall. I'm not sure why they like it so much but they do. We even went and saw Santa but once up close, they wouldn't pose for a picture.

Tonight we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's house for dinner and for more presents.

We even had some from Auntie Amy, Gigi, and Aunt Judy and Uncle Allen. (more to continue later.)

However, yesterday is when we had their birthday party for their friends. We had it at Gymquest again like we did last year. Can't beat it. They love it and I don't have to clean! We hit the big slide right away.

Evie spend half of her time climbing up and then coming down.

Lots of our buddies were there like Scotty and Emma.

Blake was there too. Isn't he a little cutie? He's turning 3 next month!

This year Presley hung out in the foam pit. Last year, he was not too into it.

Jackson liked it too.

Shelby and Jackson had fun bouncing on the trampoline with Lindsay and Dan.

All the girlies had fun together. Gracie was Addie's BFF that night too.

Emma and Evie had fun bouncing too.

Both my babies loved climbing around the pit.

These two ran around like crazy and pretended to be tired. Yeah right!

Allie and Emma had fun on the mats.

Jackson even jumped in all by himself!

Shelby had fun being rolled by mommy!

These two went through the obstacle course.

I thought Clint was going to go swinging on the rope.

Look how sweaty the birthday boy is!

Chuck hookd the kids up with rope and helped them swing.

Gracie did really well.

Addie found the hula hoops.

Evie was following Mason around for a bit.

Emma wouldn't stop bouncing.

Mason came over to give Evie a big birthday hug!

But I know someone who had just as much fun as the kids!

Right before we finished playing, we tried for a group picture. Here are the parents trying to get the kids all posed.

Here are all our bestest friends!

I am so glad they were able to come and celebrate with us. We are lucky to have such great friends.

After all that playing,

it was time for pizza.

And we even had yummy cupcakes in which Auntie Amy made and decorated with ABC sprinkles.

We sang "Happy Birthday"

These pics actually make me want to tear up a little bit. I can't believe they are 3!

They really do grow up that fast.

I hope they wished for something good.

We opened some presents too. Presley got some cool Avengers stuff.

Evie got some Princess Playdough.

Jackson also liked the ice cream Playdough shop.

What a pretty birthday girl!

Presley got more Avengers stuff too like this Iron Man.

And Evie got this Princess carriage.

They got some cool new jammies too from Addie and Blake.

(back to Grandma and Grandpa's)

They got new puzzles from Aunt Judy and Uncle Allen, Jake and the Pirates and Minnie.

You'd think it was like Christmas for these two today!

Presley got some Jake and the Pirates things and Evie got the Princess Little People.

Then, being the nice guy that he is, he let Gracie help him open his big gift from Grandma and Grandpa.

He got the big Jake and Pirates ship! And Evie got the Little People Princess castle!

And Auntie Amy gave her a baby Snow White doll. She was already hugging it before we could get her out of the box.

We had to open the gifts right away and start playing.

Grandma and Grandpa joined in on the fun.

And Gracie and Evie sat for awhile playing with the Princesses.

I know...you are thinking Little People, but my kids still love them and play with them! And this castle is pretty cool. Each Princess can talk and sing songs when you put them in the castle.