Alayah's 3rd Birthday Party

Since everyone has to work tomorrow we are celebrating Alayah's birthday today.

I still feel bad that she doesn't have any friends to invite to her party, but I am trying to make the best of it. I still decorated and bought party supplies even though she is the only one who will be using any of it. 

She loves horses, so a my little pony party seemed fitting. She loved her cake and was so excited to be able to blow out some candles.

She loved when we sang her Happy Birthday, but she was even  more excited when we were done so that she could blow out the candles.

After cake and ice cream we let her open her presents. She was much faster about opening these presents than she was her Christmas presents.

She pretty much got all horse related stuff and she was loving it.

I got her a book called "Every cowgirl needs a Horse" and she seemed pretty excited about reading it later today.

Her big present from me was this ride on horse. She loves it. She calls it bullseye and says she is a cowboy and rides him across the kitchen.

Her present from her grandparents was horseback riding. They paid for 30 minutes of riding as the owners said kids Alayah's age only have interest in riding for about that long. (They haven't met Alayah)

It was pretty cold out so we had to dig out some warmer clothes. Alayah said she wasn't cold, but the rest of us were. The first horse she rode was named Popsicle. The lady rode on a seperate horse and led popsicle and Alayah around.

Alayah did so well they decided to let her ride a smaller horse all by herself.

Meet Sassy. Alayah rode this horse for quite a while. She learned how to kick to make the horse go, even though her legs were a little too short to do much, she learned how to pull the reigns back and say whoa to make the horse stop, and she learned to pull the reigns to either side to make the horse turn.

Alayah rode the horse around barrels and up and down little dips. She was loving every minute of it.

She was supposed to be done after 30 minutes, but she wanted to ride just one more and the lady happily obliged. The people that worked at this place kept asking how old she was. They thought she was 4. They couldn't believe she was so content and into riding. The very last horse she rode was named Sage in the picture above. He was a pretty big horse. His back was as tall as me. Alayah had a great day and since she did so well my parents are signing her up for a pee wee class. I think she will love it. :)