Birthday Party Fun

On Saturday we celebrated Lauren's 5th birthday. Although her birthday is not until the end of June we have her friend's birthday party in May. We do this because if we wait until the end of June there will be no one here. It seems that a lot of families get out of the valley as soon as school ends and they stay away until school is about to start.

We had scheduled this party for earlier in the month but due to about 4 other parties scheduled for that same day we changed it. It ended up working out great but it was a very busy week. We had the last day of school, school graduation, trip to the waterpark and then the birthday party. Lauren was so excited but she would not give me a good smile the whole time. It was driving me crazy. So the pictures are not the greatest.

Here is Lauren waiting for her friends to come. To me that always makes me worried that no one will show up and I will be stuck with 30 gift bags to take home. In the end I didn't need to worry. We had a great showing. It was great to see all her friends including her friend, Hannah, from California

Lauren had a great time on all the fun things. Here she is going down the slide panties and all. She was running from one thing to another it was hard to get her to slow down. She acted so different from other parties that she was been at. She knew this was her party and so happy.

Finally a smile.

This is a group picture of most of her friends. There are a few missing from this picture but they all had a great time.

Her cousin Sammie decided to sit next to her when they sang happy birthday. I think Sammie thought it was for her and when it was time to blow out the candle she helped. It was pretty cute and Lauren seemed fine with it.

Every year when we have sung happy birthday to Lauren she has bursted into tears. I am not sure why, but this year she just smiled.

Blowing out the candles. Once Sammie saw what she was doing Sammie blew out the number 5.

Cousins having fun.

We then went home and opened the gifts. She got so many gifts and she had a great time opening them. Now I just have to find room for all of them.

It was a great birthday and Pump it Up does such a good job with the kids. Lauren is so excited to be 5 years old.