Her last few hours as a four year old
She was baffled and so giggley over the fact that somehow, overnight she was turning into a 5 year old! When she woke up she showed me all the new things she could reach now that she's five! You guys, seriously, now that she's five her feet touch the carpet when she sits on the couch, she's so much taller and she can reach so much more!
She helped with the salad. "The birthday girl isn't going to have salad for dinner".
Getting all ready!
Opening presents from Mom and Dad. Barbie and the Mermaid Tail, just what she's been wanting!
She didn't want the usual white cake-colorful frosting-birthday cake. Fine by me! She wanted chocolate everything and I knew I could head over to ourbestbites.com to find just the cake. Boy, was I right. This cake was AMAZING. So yummy.
June-Bug
Annie and Addi
Sariah and Cooper
Just waiting for the Fire Department to come and turn on the water. Did I mention why we needed the FD? Oh, well Todd won an amazing party package by answering a correct question on the radio! He won a water-walking party from Carnival Enterprises complete with a bouncy house! I'm not sure how long it's going to take the kids to understand that this is not going to become the norm for birthdays, and that they are SO lucky!
Baby Bennett aka "Bentin"
Kenz, Ellie, Caroline and Addi
Still waiting! Todd was a good sport and pretty much hung around behind the scenes filling in where ever help was needed.
Oh-uh! Mason found the cake!
Yummy, yummy!
It was too windy to light the candles boy was I glad I snagged a number "5" sparkler!
The crew! That's one of my besties, Tina. Only she can call me anal and dependable in the same sentence and not offend me! We even share our Birthday! In front we have the backs of Jake, Noah, Mason and panty-clad Maylee.
Opening the many presents
In the back we have Kim, Grandma Campbell, the back of Ben and Gino. In the very front is Annaka.
In the back again, we have Lorene and Kate
Wahoo! The water is on and they are READY to PARTY!
Ellie
Noah
Annie
How awesome is this!? The kids could climb in and out as they pleased in the colored balls.
Coop never did get in the clear balls but he did like the colored ones as long as Mom or Dad was in too, or near by.
I LOVE this! May was so brave to sit there while it was being blown up, which is so loud and claustrophobic, but when it came time to roll into the pool she was DONE. Look how HUGE her eyes are. So much concern.
Jared and June. June got brave by the end and went all by herself!
My handsome boys!
Again, a huge THANK YOU to everyone that came! It means so much to us to have you come celebrate McKenzie's special day! I'll see if I can't figure out how to upload some video on here as well.
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4 comments:
It must be mentioned that Kara did an amazing job of making sure so many people were aware, planning out the food, and keeping things in general running smooth with all the people! Love ya Kara!
McKenzie in the end had an awesome day, and when the 2 kids fell asleep SUPER fast when we got home, it's gotta mean they had fun and played hard!
Kara and Todd, We had such a fun time! We could tell that you put a lot of hard work into making this a good time for the kids and adults:}, from making that yummy salad, (speaking of which, I need the recipe!) to pulling the fire hose a quarter mile down the road. (one would have thought that in another life Todd could've been a fireman.) Thank you for a wonderful evening and the opportunity to join in celebrating McKenie's B-day!
Happy 5th Birthday! She is beautiful! Looks like you guys had a blast in a half!
Umm.. seriously best birthday ever! I hope she remembers it! :)
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