let the summer birthdays begin!

This morning we celebrated Sadie's 5th birthday (her actual birthday was the 17th) at the park by Papa & Memaw's house. Becca decorated strawberry cupcakes with Strawberry Shortcake & iced all of the cupcakes together as one. Very cute & yummy! She also brought DQ ice cream Cupcakes - yum yum!

Sweet Birthday Girl
Sadie pretended to blow out the candles because it was too windy to light them. :P

Becca & Aaron with their 5 year old!

Sadie had lots of helpers while opening gifts: Ben & Ryan Benson + Ronan & Tyler. She didn't seem to mind the help...or being the only little girl at the party. :)

Cute, huh?
We knew that Josh & Kenton have the same shirt & I even joked that Josh might wear that shirt today. I didn't think they actually would end up being twins. :P

One of Sadie's gifts was a giant bubble wand! What a hit! We tried to keep all of the kids up on the hill so that the bubbles would come to them. It was hard to convince them not to run straight for the wand. Everyone was pretty excited about the huge bubbles. :)

The kids got a lot of exercise. Finn was pretty tired out after the party.

All of the kids got at least one chance with the bubble wand.

I don't think Finn managed to make any big bubbles, but I did lift him up so that he could pop one with his face! He had a pretty big grin after that. :)


I just liked this action shot.
You can't really tell by the photo, but all of the kids got a floppy frisbee as a party favor. That was another big hit! Finn was entertained by his for quite a long time. He managed to throw it well a few times, but that didn't matter to him. He was equally happy whether he threw it far or whether it flopped close by. :)

He loves his frisbee & was super excited to see it when he got up from his nap.

Thanks for the great party, Sadie! We had a really good time. Hope you had a wonderful birthday! We're so excited for all the adventures in store for you now that you're 5!