Sydney's 5th Birthday

This year for Sydney's birthday I wasn't feeling up to the big preschool production that we've done for the kids in the past. I talked to Sydney a few weeks before her birthday and we decided that a nice at home family party would be just as fun. McKay took her to Walmart and let her pick out her own decorations which consisted of pink and red balloons, blue streamers, princess plates and napkins, Tinkerbell cups, and princess crowns. We also let her choose what she wanted for all her birthday meals.

We started off the morning with blueberry bagels with strawberry cream cheese.

After breakfast Sydney opened her few gifts from us. Her favorite was the cheap little magnifying glass from the optics section of K-Mart...something she asked for. Haha.

For lunch we ventured out to our favorite pizza place here in Grundy, Bellacinos. Lunch was just me and the kids...quite the feat! (Sorry no pictures)

That night when McKay got home we had biscuits and gravy for dinner. Our 5 year old is quite the southerner these days. ;-)

Sydney's cake was a princess crown. She had the hardest time deciding on what cake she wanted this year....but I think this one fits her well.

You can imagine the look on her face when McKay brought out the ice cream towering like this...

*Don't worry, most of these ice creams only had a couple scoops left in them...we're bad at that.*


After cake and ice cream we headed out to the movies. We saw "The Spy Next Door" and it was really cute. The kids laughed through the whole thing.




That was Sydney's big day!