Halle's birthday post...

Halle celebrated her 4th birthday this past weekend!!  I think 4 sounds so much older than 3...like she is not so little anymore:(  But that's okay, because the older she gets, the more she continues to delight and entertain us with her amazing God-given personality!  She is so much fun!

So Halle's birthday was this past Saturday (March 3).  We traveled to Bluffton the day before and spent Friday evening with Nathan's parents.  Mom M. made a really good dessert and Halle was thrilled to have her first celebration:

 We were so glad Gma Steffen could be there, too!

So that was a really fun evening!  The next morning, Halle woke up and was so excited that she was finally 4 years old!!

My dad told the kids a story at breakfast, like he always does when we eat breakfast at their house:)  (He pretends the salt and pepper shakers, the cinnamon shaker, etc are people in our family and he "acts out" the story.  Our kids LOVE it!!)

Kaine, Halle and Layla had fun getting into my parents' dress-up clothes:)

Then Nathan and I took Kaine and Halle out for lunch.  We did this for Kaine's birthday, also, and it was so much fun!  We let Halle choose and of course she chose McDonald's :)

(Kaine and Halle started to get cold, so we shared our coats...it was so cute!)

Then we got back to my parents' house and my mom had a cake for Halle:

So we had a small celebration right after lunch for Halle's birthday.  We are planning to have her official party in April (combined with Daisy's).  She will have a special cake, pinata, etc then.  I'm sure I will post plenty of pictures of that in April!

That evening, we went to Nick and Jessica's house with our friends...it was so fun, as always!  We love our friends:)

And Halle had another candle to blow out there!  Jessica was so thoughtful and gave Halle a present from all the kids, too.  Halle loved it:)

Happy birthday to our sweet Halle Rae.  We love her so much and are incredibly grateful to God for blessing us with her for 4 years!  (so far!)  We can't get enough of this sweetie:)