Hadley's 4th Birthday!

Believe it or not, I now have EVERY picture from the past TWO MONTHS off of my camera and uploaded to Picasa. YEAH!! Let me just warn you that there are a TON of pictures. If I gave them all to you at once you would 1) not have the time to look at them, and 2) be totally bored…so, I will give you a little dose everyday until we are all caught up. That way you have something to look forward to! HA!! I figure at the rate I am going we might as well just start with the present and go backwards, so below you will find pictures from Hadley’s 4th birthday this week!

Tuesday, June 3rd, was her actual birthday. First thing that morning we let her open most of her presents from Scott and me. Her main gift was a pink refrigerator to go with the rest of her set from Pottery Barn Kids that she got for Christmas. We also “upgraded” her to some wooden food, got her some new Pip Squeak Markers and a black ballet skirt. After opening gifts it was off to school for her fun day at Ms. B’s. Ms. B makes it very special for the kids on their birthday. Pretty much the whole day is a party and they get to pick out what they want to eat, open gifts with all of their friends, have dessert, etc. Hadley had a blast! That afternoon I picked her and Alyson up from school a little early and then we came back to the house to open a few more gifts from us (more accessories for her kitchen!) Ya know what is funny…Seville has had just as much fun playing with these “big girl gifts” as Hadley. My mom always comments on how Seville has no age appropriate toys like Hadley did at her age, but Seville doesn’t want them. She spent literally an hour this morning stirring nothing in Hadley’s new stainless steel pots and pans. She just loves to cook (like her sister), which is funny because neither of them get it from Scott or me!

That evening we took Hadley out to eat at Stix (a hibachi grill) with all of her grandparents and the Imboden’s. It was a really great time. The girls loved to watch them cook and they even sang to Hadley with drums and all (she was most impressed with that!) You have got to check out the pictures of all of us catching shrimp…they are too funny. We got some great shots of the shrimp actually in mid air! After dinner we came back to the house to open gifts from the grandparents and Imboden’s. Hadley is truly blessed and loved and got so much great stuff!!



The celebration continued on Saturday with her friend party at the Matt Ross Community Center indoor water park. It was such a blast and I cannot say enough good things about the facility. I only wish we were lucky enough to have one close to us!! We had about 35 people at the party including people from Ms. Gail’s, Ms. B’s, the cul-de-sac, cousins, long-time friends, family, etc. Thank you to everyone for coming! It was kind of crazy because they recommend doing the party portion first (cake/presents) and then go swimming (which is kind of opposite of what we normally do), and all of the kids could see the pool so they could really care less about anything but getting in that pool ASAP! Needless to say we rushed through it all and I even forgot to give the kids juice boxes with their cake AND their party favors! I felt really bad, but hopefully no one noticed!! It all just FLEW by and everyone was so tired when it was over!