Rocky Mountain National Park with the Walkers

Happy 5th Birthday LYDIA

I love birthdays!  I think I feed off the kids enthusiasm.  They are so much fun at this age, I just want them to feel so special and so loved everyday but especially on their birthday! We started this tradition of decorating  their door with balloons and streamers so when they wake up, that's the first thing they see.  They love it and ask for it every year.  This is Lydi coming through her doorway a

 5 YEAR OLD! Yay!

 They also ask for donuts every year.  Smart girls!  They know we'll say "Yes".  

Daddy made the early morning Krispy Kreme run 

and made a little girl very happy.

Opening a couple presents in the morning.  

We ended up opening one every couple hours.  

 I made this cute outfit for Lydia.  She wanted a rainbow skirt so I started searching Etsy for ideas.

This is what we came up with, a rainbow tutu skirt with matching 3D cupcake shirt and an impromptu hair bow.  Since I made the outfit, we bought the cake :)

 Harley is so good at making the girls feel special on their birthdays too.  He always takes the day off work and we make it a big "family" day.  Lydi's lunch choice was McDonalds (surprise, surprise) so that's where we went.

After lunch we took the girls to a pottery place where they picked their pottery of choice and painted it. It was lots of fun!  Lydi chose a cat and Kayla chose a butterfly.  I'll have to post the finished products when they're done being fired.

After the pottery place, Aunt Angie, Uncle Rob, Danielle, Logan and Marcus arrived from IL.  

It was fun to have cousins to share the day with!  

Cake Pictures....... yum!

 COUSINS! 

Danielle turned "13" the day before so we celebrated her too!  I didn't think she wanted a Barbie birthday cake so  we gave her ice cream instead.  

Kayla's first day of 1st grade

Wearing that backpack proud

Could she be any more excited! 

 

This is Kayla's best friend.  They're in the same class again this year

Barbecue with the Thayers

We started off by going to Grandma's farm, then off to Leland for the family barbecue.

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 Aunt Terry, Grandma and Randy

 Cousin Jeni and Grandma

 POOL FUN!

A. Debbie and U. Denny have a pool in their backyard and boy did the kids love it!

My only regret is that I didn't take more pictures.  Almost all of Harley's relatives were 

there from his mom's side and I missed getting pictures of half of them.  Next time!

Cousin Geno was throwing the kids off the diving board, they were having a blast! 

They swam all afternoon and slept the whole way home.  What a day!  It was so much

fun!  Thanks Aunt Debbie for getting us all together!

Build*A*Bear Workshop

Grandma Katie treated all the grandkids (and of course Amanda and Weather) to Build'A'Bear for all their birthdays. It was the first time for our girls and they were beyond excited. They were getting pumped up all week and asking all sorts of questions.  It was cute. 

 Decision, decisions

We gave Kayla 30 minutes to pick out the one she wanted and.....

it took her all 30 Minutes! 

They're all in line getting their bears filled.  

They put their foot on a pedal and it makes the machine go.

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVERYONE!!!!!

Weather, Kayla, Logan, Danielle, Marcus,Amanda and Lydia

Mom's pine tree

This is the pine tree we planted in memory of Mom.

We wanted to make sure we got a picture of it so we can see it grow in the years to come.

This is the disc basket that we planted the tree by.  

Couldn't resist getting a picture of the girls in it.

A visit with Nana

I love this picture!

I love my Grandma so much and I'm so happy

my girls have gotten to know her too!

Aren't they all so cute!

 Malia was a riot!

She loved dumping Nana's books

 Nana taking Kayla for a scooter ride

The girls getting to ride Nana's scooter all by themselves.

It was hit!