Cora is 3!!!

I can't believe that my baby is 3 years old! 

Cora is growing up way too fast! If I could freeze time right now and keep my kids young I would. This is seriously the best time of my life and I am enjoying every single minute of being their mom. Cora loves her older siblings and freaks out if she doesn't get to do everything that Vela does. The two of them are becoming such good buddies and it makes my heart happy. 

Cora has really grown up food preferences. She LOVES chips and salsa and sometimes even just eats salsa with a spoon. She is part Mexican!! 

Cora loves her birth mom Krychele and her family. She is so blessed to have an open relationship with them. Here she is delivering some Mother's Day love to Krychele.

Pretty girls!!

Cora recently got her first haircut. Her cute cousin Kaili cut it for her and she loved going into the salon and getting pampered!

Cora has been so excited for her birthday. She wanted to have a farm party. Little Hema and Vela tried to talk her in to 7 Peaks, but in the end she stuck with the farm. She had a great time playing with her cousins and family and was completely spoiled with lots of great presents!
Cora's sweet birth dad Uziel and his brother Ernie came. Uziel gave Cora the cutest aqua sparkle TOMS. She loves them!

Kisses from Uziel! Cora is blessed to have so many people that love her so much!

Cora got so many presents! She got lots of adorable outfits, 5 pair of darling shoes and lots of toys! She also got the present she's been asking us for for months now - a new car seat. Thanks so much to all those who came out including Grandma Kim (how did we not get a picture of you?), cousins, uncles and aunts!

 Cora has a special bond with my brother Jason and his family! She stayed with them while Hema and I went on pioneer trek and she can't get enough of them!

The cousins singing Happy Birthday and getting ready for cake.

One of the toys we got Cora was this adorable baby alive doll. It has a little bottle and you can feed her water and them she wets in her diaper. She was so excited to go home and try it out!

After the party we went home and Cora changed right in to her darling new kitty jammies from Grandma Kim!

We went inside and she tried out baby alive. She thought it was so awesome... until while changing the diaper she picked the doll up and it peed on her new jammies. There was no convincing her that it was just water. She was so sad and it was pretty funny!

She can laugh about it now.  Cora is such a sweet girl. She is a total mommy's girl. It is so nice especially since she is our last baby. The other 2 kids were definitely more of daddy'd kids. She loves to go everywhere with me and is the best little helper around. Cora could go to preschool this fall and really wants to, but I can;t stand the thought f her leaving the house so I am going to do my own little mommy school for her here! She is such an angel and we are grateful every single day that she is part of our family!