Sunday, February 19, 2012

Eliza Turns 5!

On February 15th, Eliza Colleen turned 5!  This year was a non-friend party but we still managed to have lots of fun just with the family.  Thank you to all the family and friends who helped to spoil my firstborn.

We started the day off by going to pick out some donuts at Dunkin Donuts.  Eliza picked out all the donuts and then we headed home to share them with Daddy and Chloe.  We opened a few presents from her bff Brooklyn and Grandma and Grandpa Bodine to get in the birthday spirit.








After getting dressed, we headed out to the Dollar Tree so the girls could each pick out a helium balloon (a highlight) and then went to the grocery store to pick out stuff for preschool birthday snack the next day. And we opened up a few more presents from Aunt Kelley & Uncle Dale, Eliza's friend Sam, and Grandma Debbie and Grandpa Snow White. Following that - we headed to Chick-fil-a for a birthday lunch and playing on the toys and ice cream.




We ended up having Pei Wei for dinner and then waited anxiously for Dad to get home so we could have ice cream cake and open the rest of the presents. Ellie chose and ice cream cake this year and we made it together in the few days before her birthday. It was REALLY good but a little too big. Next time we'll make it half the size....




Chloe thought the ice cream cake was worthy of licking the plate clean....




I still can't believe my "baby" is 5!  She is such a joy to have in our house and a great big sister and I couldn't ask for a better child to come into our family first.

1 comment:

Hadley Family Clan! said...

So happy Ellie loved her gift and it looks like she had a fun 5th birthday:). I haven't checked blogs in so long but happy you keep posting:). Chloe is so cute.