The Meert Family... now in Florida!: Maylee's Fun in the Sun birthday party

Maylee loves the Newcastle Beach Park on Lake Washington, so we planned to have her third birthday party with our friends there in the late afternoon on Sunday, June 8. We hoped and prayed for a sunny day (not too common for early June in Seattle), and we got a beautiful, 75 degree day!! The kiddos had a fantastic time playing in the sand, water, and at the playground. We are so thankful for our friends and it meant a lot to have them all there! We had snacks, dinner, and chocolate cupcakes too (Maylee loves chocolate! Truly a girl after my own heart).

We started out splashing in the water and sand

Jason lifting Mei Mei up into the sky! She loves to go up in the air.

We brought a bunch of sand toys for everyone to play with. Our friend Amanda from church (sitting and helping with the sand project) joined us to celebrate too!

This giant pool was already started when we got there. Ry loves to dig and make new canals and pools for the water to flow through.

Our friend Afsi brought a bubble machine... Maylee is still delighted with bubbles!

Sweet snuggles with Daddy

We had fruit kabobs, veggie kabobs with dip, sliced meat and cheese, and snacks...

as well as pizza for dinner!

I made a hanging collage of photos from Maylee's first three years... such precious memories...

I didn't get a chance to take close-ups at the party (we were too busy having fun and making sure everything went smoothly!) but got a few at home (these photos were also in her 3rd birthday blog post).

Mei Mei had fun looking at them too :)

And some of the flowers... her main arrangement was one of the arrangements we sponsored at church the Sabbath before in celebration of her birthday, and I had fun making three smaller arrangements (this is one of them) from the beautiful and very large arrangement that was up front at church.