Alice's Almost Birthday

We decided to have Alice's birthday a tad early this year so we could celebrate with our Iowa friends. So, instead of the 25th, her birthday was on the 9th.


She woke up to presents. A house with little people from us.


And a train set from Myra.



Here's Alice, making sure there's no way Myra will be able to touch her new toys.


We invited 4 of Alice's favorite friends and their families over for dinner and some water fun. We had a fish/beach themed party.


Unfortunately, our landlord cut the grass right before the party and it had rained earlier in the day so everything was covered in wet grass clippings.


It was very hard to get group photo, but we did it! Isaiah is hiding behind his twin brother Elijah up on the slide. Jacob is to the left of Alice and Liam to the right.



We had the slide going into the pool and also bought some sand and spread it on a tarp for some sand castle fun. When the kids got tired of that (in other words, when they started fighting over toys), we turned on the wacky sprinkler (a snake like sprinkler that wiggles and squirts water every which way). They absolutely had a blast with that. After the sprinkler became old news, we had a water toy exchange. There's nothing better than everyone getting to open a present!




As people were getting ready to head out, a huge cloud started moving in. Everyone hurried to get packed up and only one family got stuck in the downpour.



Afterwards, Alice enjoyed some jello. To go along with the theme, I'd put some of the food in sand buckets, with shovels as serving spoons, including some blue jello or 'water.'